I am no audiophile, but I'm glad you posted this because you're right, Bose is awful. In fact, they're some of the worst speakers you can buy.Beowulf wrote:Bose is horseshit.
Bose puts a lot of sparkle in their tweeters to make people think its high quality. They really really REALLY doctor the sound, so much so that its their selling point. They helped make that whole "those speakers are SO SMALL but sound SO GOOD!" movement what it is today. Its mainly marketing aimed at women who don't like big speakers because they "don't match the bookcase". Compressed, sugary sound.
Bose =
You want your headphones to be relatively flat sounding because your ear is RIGHT THERE. You don't need to mess with the signal.
Get the Senheisers
I won't go into all the technical details, but with my background in EE (well my undergrad) and my friends doing Ph. D's in Signal Processing, I can tell you that basically Bose Speakers OMIT a large portion of the frequency domain. The part that's omitted is...USED IN MOST MUSIC TODAY -_-;. It's not just some random frequencies.
Also related, if you look up Bose's finances, ~50% of their money goes into NON-TECHNICAL things. In particular, MARKETING. Ever wonder why people are buying Bose or everyone says they're great? Because of their marketing.
It's actually a really good example of good marketing to be honest. Marketing an inferior product as superior and convincing a large percentage of the population otherwise.
