Posted on 07/12/2013 5:06:04 PM PDT by EveningStar
Acoustics pioneer Amar Bose, founder and chairman of the audio technology company Bose Corp., known for the rich sound of its small tabletop radios and its noise-canceling headphones popular among frequent fliers, has died at age 83.
Bose's death was announced Friday by the company's president, Bob Maresca, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Bose began his acoustics research and was on the faculty for more than 40 years.
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The higher impedance will only lower the available power the car’s audio amplifier can put out before it starts clipping (distorting severely). The up side is the speaker damping should be better.
I bought my Bose Acoustic Wave back in 86 and it still kicks ass in the sound department.
Feel better now?
You sound like a legend in your own mind.
Had a couple of sets of 501’s and 901’s through the years. the early 901’s were awesome. Playing an Andre Bocelli CD through them would bring tears to your eyes. Later stuff seems to be not as good and always overpriced. Still fun though.
RIP, Mr. Bose.
AMEN
bose acoustimass wow even the shelf speakers are amazing RIP
There might have been superior products, as others have mentioned.
Everything that I have heard in the last 20 years or so is just OK, maybe great for the AM radio listener.
Every product is perfect for somebody.
I can name 30 United States speaker designers better than him. I went to many Audio Show in Chicago and Las Vegas. Bose was one of the worse speakers at the show. The old 901 was terrible. His designs were bad copies of other peoples work and ideas of old concepts. The Bose company screwed their dealers and no one carried the speaker line for long periods. Your post was correct. There are a few audio companies that their egos go beyond their quality. Bose is in the top 10.
Your experience proves nothing about the quality of Bose products other than you have had problems; not all do, you know.
I have a Bose radio/CD player and my wife and I love it.
I also have Bose speakers for my computer. Same.
We just disagree. That’s all.
My complaint with the Bose Acoustimass system was that it had great highs and great lows, surrounding a big hole in the middle.
You have Bose, that’s nice for people why aren’t audiophiles.
I have two 60 Watt Tube Dynacos I modified myself along with American Acoustic speakers along with an ancient Heathkit preamp and I can guarantee you would notice the difference.
Go to some of the audio boards and you’ll see what people think of Bose. Yeah, a 4” woofer will work as well as a 12” woofer, yeah right. I don’t care how efficient it is.
I prefer to build, except for speakers and turntables.
I’m making a very common comment about Bose speakers.
You let me know when you can design a tube or transistor or FET amp from scratch and I might listen to you.
Look up Bose on the web and for people where sound counts, they just laugh at Bose.
Those were good speakers, we’re talking about the triangle shaped ones with multiple speakers, yes?
Those I would own.
But the later products were just average.
So, you're an audiophile. Well, isn't that special?
I guess we of the unwashed just don't know what we'e missing.
I was in the last class to be taught vacuum tube theory at the University of Wisconsin. Like I said, you are a legend in your own mind.
RIP.
OK, when CDs came out, what did you prefer soundwise, CDs or Vinyl? Not today’s CDs but when they first came out. While everyone was saying how great they were, there were a lot of people that thought CDs sound like shattered glass compared to the warmth of vinyl and they did. If you cranked up a CD it sounded horrible.
I won’t even mention the supposed indestructibility of CDs although they do look cool in the microwave.
Then you should know better.
I concede that vinyl is vastly superior to CDs. That said, how would you like to try to play a LP in your car? But you can play a CD. One surrenders quality for convenience.
The problem with you is that you seem to be a snob, of the audio kind.
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