Originally posted by: bill_n_opus
Originally posted by: Gibson486
Originally posted by: bill_n_opus
Oh look, it's another Bose thread!
Well, just let me chime in ...
Everyone knows the drill:
No highs, no lows - must be Bose!
or
Bose. Better sound through marketing!
That last line is for CocoGdog. But hey, if you enjoy your Bose product then who am I to criticize?!
meh...half the people on ths board who criticize Bose only do so because people who know what they are talking about criticize it to. [bThe real thruth is that Bose is fine for your average low-mid range consumer. [/b]It's true, aduphiles would not touch Bose with a stick, but that is because it usually has "poor" range compared to the more expensive competetion they are used to having. For movies, bose is fine as long as you have it on surround. For music though, meh, it not close to the best, but it defibately is not the worst.
My man, it's
not fine. If you want to believe that - that's your prerogative.
I'll echo the opinion espoused above.
Paying an embarrassing amount of money for a mediocre product or a half-assed product propped up by huge marketing and ignorant/uneducated customers doesn't make it "okay".
Having Bose take advantage of said customers does not make it "okay"
The truth is that this happens everyday in our society. But it doesn't make it "okay". It just happens.
I just cringe when I see Bose so called Lifestyle systems go for 2k when you can buy 3x the sound and quality for the same price. But if you can reach these uneducated/ignorant customers through the advertising pages of a magazine all they think about when going shopping is "Bose, Bose" even despite better advice. They won't listen. That's too bad.
Also, having people robotically echoing anti-Bose sentiments isn't right, per se, but it's the step in the right direction.
Where there's smoke there's fire. How does a stereotype become a stereotype? Because there's some truth therein.