Bose Soundwave

[struth]

People have them because you can use them for the internet when out and about. That's why I got one. In fact I've got two. The sat nav has come in handy on a few occasions as well. If you are on contract you get a new one every 2 years, doesn't cost any extra. Also doubles up as a personal stereo, most new cars you can plug it straight into the dash, no need to have tapes or cds in the car anymore. There are lots of purely practical reasons to have one, just like the original mobile phones, bloody useful inventions.

Ive got lots of them .. I get my sons hand me downs.handy for spotify and chromecast too.

[walpurgis]

Remember the BOSE 901?

Yes. I rather liked the original first model.

[Marco]

know a few women who have show kitchens and cant cook. show houses tbh. give me a working kitchen any day.

...or at least if you have a 'show kitchen', then use the bloody thing for what it was intended for! When finished, ours will be reasonably 'showy', but it'll be cooked in plenty, that's for sure

'Show houses' are simply for shallow, materialistic morons.

Marco.

[struth]

...or at least if you have a 'show kitchen', then use the bloody thing for what it was intended for! When finished, ours will be reasonably 'showy', but it'll be cooked in plenty, that's for sure

'Show houses' are simply for shallow, materialistic morons.

Marco.

as you saw, mine aint one of them lol

[walpurgis]

My home is a 'show house'. It shows what a mess and shambles can be achieved with a bit of application!

[Marco]

People have them because you can use them for the internet when out and about. That's why I got one. In fact I've got two. The sat nav has come in handy on a few occasions as well. If you are on contract you get a new one every 2 years, doesn't cost any extra. Also doubles up as a personal stereo, most new cars you can plug it straight into the dash, no need to have tapes or cds in the car anymore. There are lots of purely practical reasons to have one, just like the original mobile phones, bloody useful inventions.

So how did we manage to live perfectly fine before without them? And ok, I hear you, but not so that they end up controlling your life. Do you walk about in public 'glued' to your phone, bumping into folk in the process, and treat it almost as if it were an extension to your limbs? I think (or at least hope) not....

Do you leave it switched on, even when you're asleep, so that you don't miss anything 'vital' from your Twitter feed? Twits indeed... If ever anything was so aptly named, it's that!!

Then there are the loons, fatally afflicted with a manic obsession of always needing to own the latest, 'bestest', most desirable (read as the one to be 'seen with') phone, whilst relegating their previous 'bestest' one (purchased only months ago) to the status of landfill....

Don't get me started on that idiocy!

Marco.

[Marco]

as you saw, mine aint one of them lol

It's perfectly clean though, and there's nothing wrong with it. I wouldn't worry, as neither Del or I are the type to judge folk on the kind of house they live in.

Marco.

[Macca]

So how did we manage to live, perfectly ok, before without them? And ok, I hear you, but not so that they end up controlling your life. Do you walk about in public 'glued' to yours, bumping into folk in the process, and treat it almost as if it were an extension to your limbs? I think (or at least hope) not....

Do you leave it switched on when you're asleep, so that you don't miss anything 'vital' from your Twitter feed? Twits indeed... If ever anything was so aptly named, it's that!!

Then there are the loons, fatally afflicted with a manic obsession of always needing to own the latest, 'bestest', most desirable (read as the one to be 'seen' with) phone, whilst relegating their previous 'bestest' one (purchased only months ago) to the status of landfill....

Don't get me started on that idiocy!

Marco.

I was on the train the other day, 6 other people in the carriage with me, all of them looking at their 'phones. And yes, the knobs walking around the streets engrossed in them as well, there are few. Worst are the ones who are looking at them whilst driving, in a traffic queue or at the lights, who don't notice that they need to move up or that the lights have changed. They should be dragged out of their cars and beaten to death.

Yes we got by fine without them but we got by 'fine' without washing machines, vacuum cleaners, cars, central heating, double glazing and so on. Doesn't make them bad things, they are all worth having. Are you going to sell your car because we got on fine before they were invented?

For most people technology enhances their lives, it doesn't control their lives. I'm not into this whole 'looking down at the masses with a sense of superiority' shtick. There's been too much of this calling other people stupid recently. You can always read PFM if you want more of that.

[Frazeur1]

I thought about the original post here, and also where as most things Bose ends up heading off to. I hesitate to really even discuss(?)the Bose thing anyway, because we are coming from it at a whole different perspective in some respects. Bare with me a bit, or not....obviously nothing new here will be said.

We all know most anything Bose makes is overpriced for what it is, and basically very little material value goes into most of it. That is and has been a given for the most part.

It is most certainly about the marketing angle they have cornered, and I think probably that is the source of a lot of the issue too, especially when we are coming from the specialized side of things audio. And we are on the AOS site for a reason. But....Bose does fill an obvious niche, a place in the market that certainly isn't our own by any means.

Most of the people-even friends, yes, some of mine do or have owned Bose of some type or another, just want a simple plug and play setup that just works. And I have to say, Bose does have a fairly good reputation for things just working and decent support, dare I say better than some of the HiEnd bullshit we have seen or witnessed for ourselves? At the end of the day, these folks just enjoy their music and video, and chose not to faff around with cables, interconnects of this type, tube swap-out/rolling, gear swapping and endless trails of boxes, wires and what have you. Even I could probably learn a little bit about just sitting back and enjoying the music versus faffing about. But yes, I get it, it is part of the hobby-and I dare call it a hobby really.

I think what is funny in a twisted way, is that a lot of us folks in general will go to great lengths to say how incredibly foolish it is for a person to plonk down big money for Bose, and go on to rubbish the sound quality etc. But I think a lot of folks on the other side of things, could equally talk about how we "audiophiles" plonk down huge, and I dare say, much more money in a given period of time, for the pursuit of "better sound" as well. We all are fairly easy targets by the main stream. And all of us know that one can always buy better, get better for X number of dollars/pounds etc. Even in our own group, I am sure someone has said to you at one time or another, you could have paid a lot less and got as good, if not better sound out of XYZ...

And I suppose with my little post here, my main thought coming away from it all is this, is it not better for someone to just enjoy music period, no matter what it is played on? I enjoy music on a simple clock radio, and yes, it is obviously different than sitting in front of my system in the main room.

And yes, there are those Bose believers that can be as obnoxious and sheep-like as us audiophools, and it too can be annoying. In the end, we should though just be happy for those that are enjoying music, that is what it is all about, not Bose, not Croft, Yamaha etc.

Anyway, I am not sure what the heck I was even trying to get across, but thanks for letting me bore you all to tears...carry on, in the end it is all good, just let the music play.

[walpurgis]

And I suppose with my little post here, my main thought coming away from it all is this, is it not better for someone to just enjoy music period, no matter what it is played on? I enjoy music on a simple clock radio, and yes, it is obviously different than sitting in front of my system in the main room.

You have a good point. I enjoy music from my PC speakers and they are certainly not 'Hi-Fi'!