[bookport] Re: Bose Headphone Review
- From: "Rich Ring" <ring2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:12:28 -0600
The reviewer is probably correct in that the headphones aren't worth the
money, but the review said little about performance, it was cute though.
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[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Smith
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Subject: [bookport] Bose Headphone Review
A friend of mine provided this review of the $300 Bose headphones on
another
list. I think he's pretty much said exactly what I feel about them,
myself;
that is, they're not worth the money.
*** Begin review ***
I was able to begin using my Christmas present early for one simple
reason.
I was home when Federal Express delivered it and my wife was gone. I
knew
what it was, or was pretty certain I knew, and so I opened it while she
was
gone and began using it. No. She wasn't happy. It was my Christmas
present
anyway so what's the beef? What was it, you ask? It was a set of Bose
headphones you have heard advertised so I thought I would report on
these
300 dollar headphones just in case you were thinking about getting them
for
Christmas. Are they worth it, is the first question you are asking. Of
course not. Nothing Bose sells is worth what they charge for it and we
own
two Bose small radios and that big thousand dollar hummer called the
Bose
Acoustic Wave Radio. Yes, they all sound wonderful. Yes, I have
compared
them to other systems I have and I do believe they sound better. No, I
don't believe they are worth nearly what they ask for them and the same
goes
for the noise canceling headphones. However, you put these headphones
on as
a blind person, and it drives you crazy until you turn some music or
sound
on. Why? Because, you can't hardly hear a thing with them on. The
pads
are as soft as, well, I won't say it, but they are soft. Mind you, they
aren't as good as sex but few things are. Come to think of it, nothing
is
but I digress. This also depends highly on your age, of course, but
again I
digress. No, there is only one tiny, little, itty bitty switch on the
wire
which plugs into the headset. This switch is used for double the volume
based upon the type of output you are plugged into. It comes with a
very
fancy, zippered, sturdy, carrying case but I have never carried
headphones
in a carrying case in my entire life. It is a fancy carrying case,
however,
and you can store the cables inside the zipper case, too. It comes
complete
with extra adapters for various jack sizes and an extra extension cable
incase you want to sit 400 feet away from the sound source to which you
are
plugged into. I hate wires. I also got the free, if you want to call
it
that, little battery powered CD player and I like it quite a lot. It
uses
two double A batteries. The headset, by the way, runs on a single
double A
battery. Yes, all batteries are included. For 300 dollars, I should
hope
so. The CD player is very user friendly for the blind user, that is,
and
you can select mixed songs, that is, at random, repeat the same song, no
skip mode, very handy of course with a portable CD player, and start
over
again automatically. There's one other menu setting but I forget what
that
is right now. you can also pick nothing. Less than correct grammar but
those are the choices. No, unfortunately, for your 300 dollars, you
don't
get a stupid carrying case for the portable CD player. Beats me as to
why.
Are they better than the forty dollar models of
headphones at Radio Shack? Well, yes, I think so. The plus here, of
course, is the noise canceling feature which is built in. No, you
cannot
control the noise canceling feature, unless, of course, I have somehow
overlooked something. If you own the CC Radio Plus from C Crane, the
jack
for the headphones on FM is in stereo. That's nice so the Bose
headphones
sound very nice with the CC Radio Plus. Keep in mind, absolutely
nothing
that Bose makes is fancy with lots of bells and whistles. this is, I
have
been told, for the benefit of the elderly, a category I am rapidly
fitting
into, so they don't have to get things to confused for the decrepid
users.
Come to think of it, I do fall into that category right now. It all
sounds
good, of course, but for the price you pay, it should sound good. Would
I
call these headphones professional? I think so, but that is largely
based
upon the price. I am dead serious when I say that it drives you crazy
to
wear the headphones without any music turned on. I can hardly hear my
own
talking watch speak unless I hold it up to my ear. With music or sound
playing, I cannot hear anything but what I'm listening to. My grand son
came out the other day and had to tap me on the knee because I flat out
could not hear his voice. Oh, yes, they are super comfortable to wear.
If
you buy these extra expensive headphones, however, and are expecting all
sorts of nice do dads, like individual volume controls, base and treble
controls, levers and switches and buttons, and a fifteen button
equalizer
you can diddle around with, forget buying the headphones from Bose. If
you
like music, and if you want super quiet luxury, and if you want to brag
to
your friends that you own a 300 dollar pair of headphones, then I
recommend
you buy them. If you don't feel the necessity of bragging to your
friends,
spend the 300 dollars on a bottle of Viagra instead. One final word of
advice. Don't leave the headphones any place where your dog can get to
them
in order to chew them up.
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