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- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: MY FANTASTY HEARING AID COMPANY
- Message-ID: <9211191444.30@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:44:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.050331.8219@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1ec1agINNh82@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <1eef5gINN4to@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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- In article <1eef5gINN4to@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano) writes:
- >In article <1ec1agINNh82@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
- >>
- >>Is it my imagination, or do most of the people who like Bose products
- >>wear hearing aids or have other hearing deficits?
- >
- >when i worked at mit, i was told that good ol' amar bose, while
- >presenting a lecture, was asked why his 901 series speakers are
- >never spec'd with power handling limits. in response, he
- >unplugged a speaker from the demonstration setup, stripped the
- >wire, and jammed it into a power outlet. after a 60 Hz burst of
- >appropriate duration, he reconnected the speaker to the stereo
- >and continued with the lecture.
- >
- >if 901 speakers had been designed with this sort of feature in
- >mind, they would certainly be the speakers of choice for those
- >i know who prefer 'first strike' capability in their audio systems.
-
- Back in the "old days", the 901 series I & II were built with 9 extremely
- heavy duty 4" drivers that could easily absorb 300 watts per channel. They
- bought the drivers from Rola or CTS.
-
- The 901 speakers of today are flimsy little things made with plastic
- baskets by "intellectually challenged" workers on an assembly line at
- Bose. This assembly line is run under a government program that allows
- Bose to pay them $2.50 per hour. If you plugged one of these newer systems
- into the AC outlet, you'd probably get a nice flame and smoke show.
-
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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