[Trevor Wilson]

On 14/07/2013 3:21 AM, wrote:
On Saturday, July 13, 2013 11:09:21 AM UTC-4, Phil Allison wrote:
** MIT's most famous audio guru has passed.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/business/amar-g-bose-acoustic-engineer-and-inventor-dies-at-83.html?_r=0







Nice obit article - shame so much of it is nonsense.



Amar and his infamous BOSE Corporation were responsible for some of
the

most egregiously wrong headed audio drivel and absurd loudspeakers
ever to

be misconstrued as clever and inventive.



" Sell the sizzle, rather than the sausage" could have been their
motto,

right from day one.



Mark Antony said: " The evil that men do lives after them ... "



So thank god most examples of the Bose 901 and its many relatives
are

already

dead and buried.



BTW:



L. Ron Hubbard and Amar Bose are alike - both became famous and
wealthy

after starting new religions in the USA.







... Phil

Why do you think that 901 was not a capable product? I don't care for
the rest of the plastic junk he produced, AND people actually bought
it at astronomical prices...RIP.


**The 901 was based on a (very highly) flawed premise. Bose assumed
(quite rightly) that most of the sound reaching a listener in a confined
space was reflected sound. He failed to take account of:

1) The size of the space.
2) The reverberant nature of different spaces.
3) Outdoor recordings.
4) The fact that live recordings already possess the reverberant nature
of the space within that recording.

Bose still have the 901 on their price lists. Sales are pitifully tiny
around the planet, but for Bose to remove the product would be an
admission that would shatter the bull**** that their entire product line
is built on (in Mexico).

More interesting is to troll through Bose's patents. The US patent
system is so weak that Bose was able to secure a patent based on work
done by KEF (compound enclosures) and Prof. Bailey (transmission line
enclosures aka: Acoustic Wave™). In both cases, no patent office on the
planet (except the US one) would have allowed such blatant use

What else?

How about Bose's consistent reluctance to pay royalties to Dolby, thus
ensuring that their early surround sound products were utterly
incompatible with industry standards?

Bose's consistent attempts to build the cheapest possible products and
sell at the highest possible prices (see if you can buy Bose at a
GENUINE discount sometime) is a recipe for large profits, at the expense
of decent sound quality.



--
Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au