Bose speakers (POLL)

[kherman]

I found a VERY interesting article by an audiophile!
Bose Article

Anyways, what's your opinion.

 

[Adul]

overpriced, and decieving

 

[klah]

The file more lawsuits then patents.

A small list of companies bose has sued:
Cambridge Sound Works
HK/JBL
Theil
QSC Audio Products
Consumers Reports
Speaker Builder Magazine

These are the ones I can think of off of the top of my head.
None of these suits were for patent infringement, they were all for negative reviews and advertising.

I think the only patent they have is for hooking up a speaker to a paper towel roll and calling it "wave guide ..." or some other such nonsense.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: klah
The file more lawsuits then patents.

Sounds like rambus

 

[MajesticMoose]

I was sitting in a restaurant on monday night and it was unusyally quiet since there weren't too many people there. This meant you could clearly hear the music they had on. I quickly noticed that it had the stereotypical "no highs, no lows" sound and thought to my self, they must be bose speakers. I looked up and sitting right above my head was a 6 inch round bose speaker...

 

[mpitts]

A complete waste of money.

 

[AU Tiger]

Bose makes a decent product, but there are many better brands out there available for same dollars or less.

 

[IGBT]

I remember the 901's..really didn't understand/hear the diff. A lot of heavily equalized psycho acoustic marketing BS..believe me I tried...but I just couldn't fool my self.

 

[stev0]

Bose speakers

....are suck

 

[kherman]

This is funny, I was trying to track down bose lawsuits at goole, so i typed in Bose lawsuits. I kept geting articles on lawsuits unrelated to Bose.

I then typed in Bose sucks lawsuits and looky what I did find:
Link to below quote

11. Bose and Litigation

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Like many large corporations, Bose has sometimes taken legal action to protect its reputation and patents. In some cases, this can be seen as the dark side to their marketing efforts --- not only do they disseminate positive information about Bose, but they also attack sources of negative information, as well as other speaker manufacturers. Besides suing Consumers Reports for their negative review, as mentioned in the last section, some other instances cited on the newsgroups include:

*Bose sued Theil to prevent them from naming their speakers with a .2, since Bose also named one of their speakers with a .2, and Bose felt that this might lead consumers to confuse Bose with Theil. Anyone familiar with the Bose and Theil brand names, and the vast differences in their target audience, considers this extremely unlikely.

*Bose sued Speaker Builder magazine for publishing the specifications of a bandpass enclosure that Bose claimed infringed on their patents. Most of those who read Speaker Builder consider this suit unjustified, and many still hold a grudge against Bose accordingly.

*Bose sued Cambridge Sound Works for their claim that they offered "Better Sound Than Bose For Half the Price." Bose also claimed that some of Cambridge's speakers resembled Bose speakers. For the record, the newsgroup participants generally rate Cambridge ahead of Bose.

*In the example that hits closest to home, after a student posted a negative opinion about Bose on the internet, Bose wrote a letter of complaint and, as a result, the student was called before the Dean, fortunately with no adverse consequences. (Unfortunately, after the first posting of this FAQ, one regular nuisance pro-Bose poster decided to emulate this behavior.)

[There was a lawsuit during the summer of '96 between Bose and Harman International/JBL, the former suing the latter for selling a speaker system that bore resemblance to the Bose AM-5 system. Harman International won 2 of 3 counts; they can manufacture and sell the loudspeaker system. They were not able to declare the Bose "Acoustimass" patent invalid. It should be noted that this is what I have heard second-hand. If any of this is inaccurate, please let me know -JAB]

Some people hold a special hatred of Bose simply because of their unusually litigious behavior. You may wish to factor this in when people tell you that "Bose sucks!" --- the Bose legal department as well as their rather over-reaching marketing claims may be having an influence on such opinions, separate from the true quality of the speakers.

 

[nord1899]

*Bose sued Speaker Builder magazine for publishing the specifications of a bandpass enclosure that Bose claimed infringed on their patents. Most of those who read Speaker Builder consider this suit unjustified, and many still hold a grudge against Bose accordingly.

A friend of mine in college I think ran into this. He was very handy when building speaker boxes. And he claimed he wanted to build a 6-way bandpass box (could be wrong here it was about 4 years ago) but that technically it was illegal due to a Bose patent. Never did find out if he built it or not.

 

[kherman]

Originally posted by: nord1899

*Bose sued Speaker Builder magazine for publishing the specifications of a bandpass enclosure that Bose claimed infringed on their patents. Most of those who read Speaker Builder consider this suit unjustified, and many still hold a grudge against Bose accordingly.

A friend of mine in college I think ran into this. He was very handy when building speaker boxes. And he claimed he wanted to build a 6-way bandpass box (could be wrong here it was about 4 years ago) but that technically it was illegal due to a Bose patent. Never did find out if he built it or not.

He could build it for perosnal use. I don't think he could sell it is all. The BS is that each box must be tuned for each individual speaker, so one can not simply put together a complex box without doing their HW.


I would love to put a magazine together for sale with all the crap Bose pulls, or better yet, a book. Create a corporation to make a book! Give myself a good salary from book profits. Let the free world know how Bose sucks, then once I'm rich, file the company for bankruptcy. Bose can't sue a non-existant corporation. Even if they do, who is going to pay out the settlement?

 

[dakata24]

BOSE is the best!!