George wrote:

you should have sat for the demo
it is text book salemenship, forward and aggressive
but a excellent demostration in selling technique
many do not have the knowledge and understanding that you have and Bose
salespersons see these people as lambs waiting for the slaughter!!
george

So have fun with it! They are highly trained to sell something under
a specific procedure. A number of times I have looked at stereo
equipment or VCRs and had the salespeople hook them up to run specific
tests. It is obvious from how challenging this can be for them that
they rarely are asked to do such things. But these are not Bose stores.
They obviously need to control how everything is done. Bring in your own
music. Get them to hook up all kinds of things. Or didn't Scott once
suggest a test where you get them to crank the system through the
speakers but listen with headphones for distortion caused by the
vibrations interacting with the CD player? Or just for fun, record a
CD with one channel with its polarity inverted. If the saleman can even
tell the differnce, get him to try to solve it. If not, just go and flip
the polarity of the wire leading to one speaker (though I am guessing
that Bose speakers do not hook up with bare wire) and you will have
fixed it. But then after that, everything else will sound wrong!

Rob R.