What's so bad about Bose? - Page 3

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2 things that come to my mind.

shouldnt bash bose if you have not had them before.

what if bose becomes a sponsor and pays handsomely to the forum?

Indeed, as Groucho Marx once said: These are my principles, if you don't like 'em I have others.

I think this thread is a great idea. Whenever anyone asks about Bose, just send them here!

Bose input

I like the Acoustimass 3 and 5 speakers.
Their bass canon is second to none. If you want waterproof speakers then you can do a lot worse than theirs.

The triports had my ear time for about 2 years before I decided to look for a more involved sound. I tried out the in ear phones and found them bloated - but some might like them.

Headphonewise, they are an important first step on a journey. Let people enjoy them for what they are; a mass market upgrade from stock earbuds.

Let there be Bose!

Regards

Sceptre

Are you implying there is something funny about animal cruelty?

I'll beat you!!

We have (literally) hundreds of thousands of members at Head-Fi. Think about it... we also have a constant influx of new members, most of whom (at the point they join here, just like most of us at the time we joined here) don't/didn't know much about headphones.

Bose is a common point of reference to the common (i.e., little to no knowledge about headphones) man. Of course they will phrase their questions in a manner that is consistent with their limited points of reference, one of which happens to be Bose.

Get used to it. Here's to our new members and their Bose-related questions!

That's not going to happen.

Consistent with the points I've made above with respect to new members and their (typically, but not always) limited points of reference concerning headphones, we simply have to accept the fact that Bose threads will pop up from time to time. It's all part of the learning process.

That some of our not-so-new members grow tired of the Bose threads and thus do nothing but jump in and bash Bose is also something that we (more mature and sensible members) simply have to accept. It's going to happen, and that's life.

In a way, it's actually quite helpful for new members to see the level of resentment that "people in the know" have towards a company that has spent mega bucks in advertising over the years to build up a false reality surrounding their rather weak and overpriced products. So the bashing isn't necessarily a bad thing; it helps to deliver the message that people are fed up with Bose, and rightfully so.

In theory, that would make sense. But what would prevent it from working is the reality that this thread won't be any different than any other Bose thread. In other words, there will be the usual bashing, and there will be the usual "stop the bashing" cries, and it will keep going in circles, as always.

We could post a Sticky thread about Bose, which (in reality) would be nothing more than an effort to direct new members down a quicker path of learning in terms of everything that has been said about Bose (both here and elsewhere on the internet). But even that would be attacked by those who would scream out, "Why are you picking on Bose?!?!" So you can't win.

As I've said above, the whole Bose thing is just part of the turf. Head-Fi is the #1 headphone website in the world, with no clear cut competitor that gets even 10% of our traffic. We're going to have questions about Bose, and we're going to have some Bose bashing going on in those threads. No way around it.

Oh I agree with you totally; what bothers me isn't threads about Bose products, but threads created purely to bash Bose. These threads serve no useful function. And they are all over the place!

I wish we could see more threads about Bose products that were discussion of the actual product, rather than just a bunch of, how shall I put this, "cooperative flame posts" I suppose.

Who knows; Bose might actually make something decent one day, and we'd never know because we're too busy slinging poo at the brand name!

That I agree with, and I suppose we should kill these types of threads when we see them. But to be honest, I tend not to "see" the Bose threads myself; it's just not very interesting to me. I suspect that other moderators would say the same thing, although I can't speak for them directly.

So if you see a thread that is designed purely to bash Bose and serves no other useful purpose, please use the "report post" feature to let us know about it. Otherwise, we'll probably miss it while reading/posting about something else more interesting.

I have a set of Bose speakers for my computer, and in all honesty they're good enough for what I need them to do (I rarely listen to music on my computer, and mostly just watch movies).

I got them for a reasonably good price, and I must say I don't see the need to swap them over for something else anytime soon.

Oh yes. In the late '70s, I had a friend whose father had a good sounding system in the family living room built around a pair of the 901s. They were very expensive, even by today's standards, but they sounded quite good to my teenaged ears. That's why I bought the 301s I referred to in my earlier post in this thread. To put it very politely, the 301s sounded nothing at all like the 901s. To put it less politely, the 301s sounded like something that rhymes with "spit."

Thanks. I'll do so.

Good deal. I like closing threads. It makes me feel involved.

Ok, so I'm just kidding. It's actually no big deal one way or the other to me, but if we can do anything to reduce the amount of 'useless noise' on the site, then I'm all for it.

perhaps a leper colonyspecific Bose forum area might help. All Bose threads get dumped in there, and you wait till Bose comes along and says here is a lot of money (then you can turn it into a sponsored forum)

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