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Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat
I have a theory for the bose lovers that i was talking to my friend about. We are pretty sure it's the placebo effect that it's all in your head from the marketing. If I could do a serious double blind study with a base system in place of the bose system we are convinced that people would thing it would still sound (amazing) simply because it has the bose logo on the door. I have a german friend who was all about his bose system until I sat him in my altima with a focal setup. With him saying wow I never heard that in that song and the clarity is amazing. Ya I think bose has people brainwashed.
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I think you don't realize that there are a LOT of people, probably the majority, who simply don't care.
I went through an audiophile period when I was a kid. Built some nice speakers with Altec 891A's, EV horn midrange. Some nice dome tweeters. Fancy crossovers. Big old 400 watt Phase Linear amp. Turned up my nose at anything less than Sheffield vinyl or maybe Deutsch Grammophone. Now, especially in the car, it's rare that I even go to the trouble to engage music from my iPhone over Bluetooth. I pay Sirius $160 a year for their shitty compression algorithythms, but that's ok because I rarely listen to anything more intricate than Fox News.
I know great audio. I don't think Bose is great audio. I just don't care.