Bose does not deliver in this aspect. Of course, this is not the only reason. One of the main arguments against Bose, specifically from audiophiles, is that Bose products are designed to make music sound better artificially.
In fact, it is widely known that Bose puts a significant amount of its resources in crafting optimal sound design. Because Bose has the data to understand what most folks enjoy listening to, it focuses on achieving the optimal sound signature for the most considerable amount of people. They know that most people do not care to listen to an exact reproduction of a recording of the highest quality.
But guess what? Audiophiles can hear the difference between a crappy sound system and a great one. Audiophiles also care a great deal about what they are listening to. They would rather hear how the artist originally wanted their music to be heard. Their products can sound great to an average person for a fraction of the material cost of what you would find in a proper audiophile system.
It is common to find audiophile forums discussing and bashing Bose for not publicly displaying speaker specifications on product listings. Some people see this lack of transparency as a sign of distrust, and that is totally understandable. The problem audiophiles have with this is, there are many audio brands in the market much better sound quality. And yet, they often cost less than something similar made by Bose.
Bose is one of the most popular audio devices company. The company has been in operation since , and it continues to offer more audio devices, including Bluetooth speakers. Their products have a higher price tag compared to other products on the market today.
Even with the high price, there are so many people who trust the brand and their audio devices. The huge sales have put Bose at the top of the competition. So, what gives the speakers that high price tag? Bose speakers are expensive as the manufacturer designs them for human experience, they have advanced technology, and Bose invests a lot in research. Bose has also attracted a clientele that believes in the quality of their speakers. Being a brand name means they can sell at a high price and still get customers.
Besides investing in the research for new speakers, Bose also gives to research. You cannot tell how many watts a speaker is or any other features it may have. Instead of a features list, Bose focuses on human experience. According to Dr. Amar Bose, human experience and not features determines how good speaker systems are. He notes that the electrical specifications and the size of a speaker might be impressive, but these may not offer the needed human experience. You will never see technical specifications on Bose speakers.
While other companies compete on features, Bose considers how satisfied customers are. Instead, they consider how the customers will benefit from the product. If you pick a good speaker from Bose and another from a different company, both of which may have seemingly same features, the one from Bose will be way more expensive.
The company engineers the speakers, so they give an audio quality that impresses your mind. With Bose, beats will be beats and any other sounds will sound so natural. Bose is at the forefront in adapting new audio device technologies. It is not uncommon to see very small six-inch speakers with the same sound quality as inch speakers from other manufacturers. The company believes that the output matters more than the size.
According to Bose, it is easier to use high quality ingredients to improve user experience, than increase the size of the speakers. Bose has patent rights on so many audio technologies and this partly informs the high price tags. Over the years, the company has produced so many new technologies to make their products better. Research is among the main philosophies that Dr.
Amar Bose stands with. The company re-invests earnings in research to enable them to create better products and breakthroughs instead of using the same old technologies. Technologies such as noise cancellation have been around for a while. After all, sooner or later, negative word of mouth will eventually scuttle a truly deserving evil entity. How has Bose dodged the bullet for so long? Are their products a farce? The very first Bose product was a corner-mounted home loudspeaker called the Bose decided that eight rearward-facing drivers and one forward-facing driver would yield the ideal mix of direct vs.
The percentage of reflected sound increases with greater listening distance [the reverberant field vs. The same is certainly not true today, but this was the driving audio design impetus at that time. That driver deserves audiophile respect, not derision. What reviews those were! The was followed by the —a floorstanding speaker with a inch woofer and two angled cone tweeters designed to mimic the overall sound of the The was followed by the and bookshelf speakers, then came the floorstander with two woofers and four angled tweeters.
All were reasonably successful, but the was a real standout sales performer. The was a horizontally-oriented speaker with a ported 8-inch woofer and two angled cone tweeters in a similar orientation to the It was pleasant and spacious and had pretty good bass for a small bookshelf speaker. My neighbor was a fairly high-ranking executive at Colgate-Palmolive, well-educated, good income, liked music, but was obviously not an audiophile.
This was the quintessential Bose customer. The next really big turning point for the company occurred in with the introduction of their reality-shifting three-piece sub-sat system, the AM Bose marketing people correctly identified and predicted a fundamental change in the way people wanted to use and interact with speakers in their homes. They were buying homes.
They were starting families. Now, all of a sudden, appearance mattered as much as, if not more than, great sound. The engineers at Bose took advantage of the well-understood concept of bass non-directionality and used that to make a three-piece subwoofer-satellite system.
Bose made the midrange-treble sat enclosures really, really small. Each channel had a pair of twistable cubes barely three inches HWD. They made them very swoopy and stylish as well, with a nicely tooled plastic housing. The AM-5 looked nothing at all like an old-fashioned speaker. You could mount the cubes on the wall or simply place them on the shelf or TV stand.
The bass module that was hidden behind the chair in the corner produced the bass, yet all the sound—including the bass—seemed to come from those two hardly noticeable cubes. The days of the two big wooden boxes were over for good. The amazing marketing people at Bose even came up with a great name to describe their new speakers: "Virtually Invisible".
And so they were. AM-5 sales took off, and the old wooden coffin boxes of yesteryear were left standing in the dust. The age of dominance for the traditional wooden box speaker was over for good. They were almost resentful of its sales success, feeling it was undeserving, if not an outright fraud.
The AM-5 looked great, it disappeared in the room, none of them ever seemed to fail, it came with speaker wire already stripped and tinned, and it sounded just great to the non-audio-hobbyist who bought it. The AM-5 did something else of extraordinary importance: It showed the speaker industry how a subwoofer-satellite system could make a home theater system feasible and workable in a normal living room. When Dolby Pro Logic multi-channel receivers became available in , home theater would not have been anywhere near as successful and widely accepted by the mainstream buyer if the consumer had to somehow convince his wife to allow five big wooden boxes to be strewn around the living room in a visually-objectionable manner.
But a hideaway subwoofer and five small, easy-to-place, barely-visible sats? No problem. The AM-5—for all its acoustic shortcomings—showed the industry how to do it. This is an important subject to tackle, because there is a terrible misconception out in the audio enthusiast community that Bose is weak or deficient when it comes to hard-core audio engineering. Bose does not publicize its star engineers the way Hollywood touts a big-name actor or the way other speaker companies promote their celebrity designers, like Kevin Voecks or Andrew Jones.
It was the first speaker that used a vertical line of drivers, intentionally, in recognition of the interference effects of side-by-side drivers. Since then, all tower speakers from every company have been vertically-aligned. It used Allison-styled side-mounted inch woofers for uniform in-room bass response to achieve an honest in-room LF response of -3dB at 28Hz. It laughed at watts RMS per channel. It was an amazing technical tour-de-force in loudspeaker design at the time, a landmark product.
The chief designer and project manager for the AR9? Tim Holl. Snell Acoustics has certainly earned numerous audiophile accolades for a succession of brilliantly-designed speakers through the years. Any number of Snell speakers are deservedly high on the list of any serious audio enthusiast as examples of some of the best-sounding speakers anywhere. David Smith. Smith is now at Bose and has been there for quite a while, many years. Bose even has a large anechoic chamber on premises, which most speaker companies do not.
Whether mechanical, electrical, acoustic, materials, transducer, certification or any other area of engineering, rest assured, Bose is at the very top of the heap. The is intentional. The process rules for the audiophile as much—if not more than—the actual sound itself. But to non-enthusiasts—like the Bose customer—specs are unimportant. Those customers respond to the experience, not the specs. The process is not the issue. The final result as perceived by them is what counts.
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