[rollei_list] Re: Completely OT- Loudspeaker info

Austin,

He was a successful huckster.

His outside noise canceling headphones are great on
long airplane flights.

Jerry

Austin Franklin wrote:

> > > You left out Mr. Bose.
> > >
> > >
> >   I heard Dr. Bose speak before the local section of the
> > Audio Engineering Society nearly forty years ago. He
> > described a method of measurement using sparks as the source
> > of impulse signals. He intimated that this was used in
> > testing his, then new, Bose speaker system. It was not. His
> > speakers actually sounded pretty good until compared with a
> > genuinely good system. Nothing he did was new, most of it
> > was hype.
>
> Still true today.
>
> Austin

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