On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:13:18 -0500, Peter Sammon
wrote:


Back in the early `70's my wife and I went into a shop that
sold Bose 901's and ESS AMT1's, among other speakers.
It also had a pile of mags with good-things-to-say articles
about the Bose on a coffee table by the listening chairs. We
didn't know anything about either speaker, good or bad. We
picked the ESS, tho, because they sounded a hell of a lot
more accurate and better.

The bottom line re Bose is very simple: it is very good at
marketing its products. A great example is the radio. No
other audio company would have had the audacity of selling
a mediocre tabletop radio for that much money and be able
to pull it off. It's an inverse of the "High End" $30K amp approach.