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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: The Bose flame war
- Message-ID: <185048@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 20:26:52 GMT
- Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation
- Lines: 30
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- In article <C14wK0.8wt@world.std.com> DPierce@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce) writes:
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- >What about Dr. Bose's well established history of agreeing to engage in a
- >fair technical debate, then, when he is repeatedly cornered about the
- >shaky technology and dubious sound of his products, rather than retrorting
- >on technical groudn, he responds with "I'll have my lawyers deal with you!"?
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- Or even worse, when a mid-fi consumer oriented magazine actually
- suggested that the playback imaging of his infamous 901's
- forcefully ingested canal-water, he actually sued them.
- [Well, the descriptive phrase was more along the lines of "music
- wandering all over the room..."]
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-
- [someone else...]>
- >> If you can say nothing else about Bose, at least it's a company
- >>that is continually trying out new ideas and coming up with
- >>innovative products. That, of course, is always conveniently
- >>ignored in this forum.
-
- No it's not ignored. But history is full of examples of very
- brilliant people and very brilliant ideas and products which were
- pretty laughable. Even Thomas Edison bit the dust a few
- times...particularly before Telsa bailed him out.
-
- The problem with Amar Bose is that his ego is located directly
- between his ears and his brain...and it is directly connected to
- his pocketbook.
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