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On 1/22/05 14:10, in article ,
"wkearney99" wrote:

Well, if you're talking about background music or news radio in the bathroom
or kitchen then it's really a waste of money to bother putting a pair of
Polk, Niles or name-your-audiophile-brand speakers in there. The quality
they might offer is just wasted for spaces like that.

I would say this statement is absolute rubbish. Quality is always noticed
and appreciated by all, even those not "audiophiles".

Anyone that thinks Polk or Niles brands represent "audiophile" speakers
should bow out of this thread and go to Best Buy.

I have owned several service-type businesses over the years, and always
replaced existing background music systems with high quality Bose systems

Aha... now the snake oil becomes apparent. Bose is crap. The only nice
thing about them is those $0.26 paper drivers take very little amp power
to drive them. True high-end speakers are usually inefficient (low SPLs)
due to the heavier driver construction amongst other reasons, so using
them all over the house gets to be a problem unless you just have truckloads
of cash to throw away.

And the results were always noticed and commented on by the
customers, who in many cases spent time waiting for their services to be
performed.

The placebo effect still works apparently.

Scratchy and tinny sound is NEVER appreciated, and psychologically is just
annoying and tension creating.

Then you shouldn't install Bose. No highs, no lows, ... Let me guess, you
put an acoustimess module in the corner so you can get awesome midrange
response down around 60 hz. sheesh.

The continued growth in ultra-high-quality clock radios is proof of point;

ROTFLMAO. Ultra-High-Quality Clock Radios. I never thought I'd hear
those words used together.

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