Consumers, as a whole, are very uneducated

Originally Posted by Spatula

Tell me what's wrong with Bose. ;___; I kept hearing their audio products are top of the line (with a top of the line price, of course).

Bose stuff honestly isn't that sonically terrible, but it's so overpriced. For example, the Quiet Comfort headphones cost $300 list, but they have the sound quality of an average $50 pair of closed Sennheisers and the build quality of any random $20 thing from Best Buy. The various Wave Radios are pretty good for being so small, but a Henry Kloss Model One will beat one quite well in sound quality at a much lower price. Their speaker systems really aren't that much better than the higher-end HTIB systems, but they cost more and aren't nearly as flexible as a proper receiver.

Oh, and if you want real speakers at a sub-Bose price point, buy a pair of Magnepan MMGs and some decent floorstanding rear speakers. They even have some style! ^^

Henry Kloss was a bloody genius, by the way. I have a pair of his original Advent speakers, and they sound great compared to...well, any cheaper speaker system out there right now.

Jam it back in, in the dark.