John Roberts {JR} wrote on Thu, 06 January 2011 14:51 |
Yet that observation doesn't lead me to take cheap shots. Because they don't have a credible presence here defending their honor, doesn't mean they should be underestimated.
While some products deserve scorn, their successes balance them out as a business. I actually applaud their willingness to try something different, even when those product attempts may no work for the big leaguers here.
I am more critical of the companies that don't take chances and just copy other people's winners. Note: Some of Bose's better products borrow liberally from other's technology too, but that is not a new concept among successful companies. When technology is public domain use the best of breed technology available to you.
Yes the acronyms are funny but mean spirited, IMO. I guess mean is OK in the basement. Be sure to say something kind to balance out your karma account.
JR
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I think a lot of the BOSE issues in the pro world could happen to anybody.
Over the years I have used a fair number of various BOSE products in installs.
THey have all worked well-and in some cases beyond my expectations.
However there are many situations out there in which simply the wrong product (or type of product) is used for the job. ANd when it doen't work well-the product is blamed-NOT the guy who used the wrong tool
You hear it all the time "Well I heard a BOSE system in so and so room and it sucked". Yeah and so would any other system of the same type in that applicaion.
Now some of the marketing would believe you to think that all you have to do to design a system is to "stick it in the room", and that is just plain wrong. And the people who do that are not designers-they are just trying to move product.
My real issues with BOSE are not so much the product (and the applications and marketing etc-which I won't go into), but rather with their business practices in which we have been screwed. We used to install a fair number of systems with various BOSE products (when it was the right tool for the job), but when we were screwed over one to many times-we stopped selling it.
They would like for us to continue selling their gear-but it is real hard when we do all the work and get the client sold on the product/job and then the "mother company" steps in and gives the work to a trunk slammer who is not even licensed
. Well that really pisses us off.
NAH-I think I'll pass on BOSE.
And no, as tempting as it is-I will not pile on.
I would rather put the screws to the company in another way-by simply not specing or buying their products. I give the work to other manufacturers who treat their dealers better.