"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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"Trevor Wilson"

Just after small form factor and *reasonable* sound.

**No point considering Bose then. Bose can only satisfy one of those
requirements.


**There are literally hundreds of options available, which, at worst,
perform no worse than Bose, at far lower cost. Think: 20% of the cost and
you'll be close to the mark. Bose really are THAT over-priced.

You should always look at the people behind a company and that company's
activities in the market place.

* Dr Amar Bose is one of the wealthiest individuals in the US.
* Bose is a private company. It's profit and loss figures are available
only to the US tax department.
* Bose products are rarely available at *genuine* discount prices.



** There is a Wiki on the Bose Corporation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose_Corporation

The parts about " Cold Fusion Research " and suing " Consumer Reports "
magazine for publishing a bad review are entertaining.

**Wouldn't it be kinda fun to be sued by Bose? I mean, you go to court to
prove that the words uttered (on the Usenet) are correct. It is up to Bose
to prove you wrong. You could wheel out a $199.00 Chinese sat/sub system and
make the jury do a DBT on it and a $2,000.00 Bose system. Do a frequency
response run on the Bose and demonstrate exactly how bad the thing is. Then
you could force them to reveal their profit/loss statements for the court.
Then we could start looing at the issue of retail price maintenance and how
it may apply to Bose products. Of course, it'll never happen, but we can
only dream. Bose has far too much to lose to bother litigating against
people who speak the truth about their products on the Usenet. They only go
for targets who can *really* hurt them.

Trevor Wilson