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