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Originally posted by Beav
Can you say 'cheap'? Or should I ask: Can you say 'cheap' and 'Bose' in the same sentence?
Funny, they make no mention of the voltage required or the size of the battery and alternator. However, it should be simpler/less expensive/more accurate than the Lotus electronic/hydraulic system of years ago. What bothers me most about the price is Bose's history of end-user expense. Look at their little table-top radio, it's basically a clock/radio with a big plastic case that allows a little porting. No real manufacturing expense involved, but they do include a lot of perception for the money. I'll bet the marketing costs way more than the product. Like buying a coke at McD's - the cup costs more than the contents.
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Absolutely untrue. Sorry, but having done audio engineering for a while, and being great friends with a professional live-audio engineer, has shown me that most of the stuff that Bose makes is great. While the production costs are low for what you are purchasing, your money is going towards years and years of R&D. Mr. Bose tends to attempt not to release anything short of "perfection," and that's why they have such a small quantity of things to offer... Pretty much everything has to be of great enough quality for him to approve.
Anyway, the Bose wave radio pumps sound from small, high-quality speakers through this funky maze of passages and waves. This is finely tuned, and makes the little speakers sound much larger and fuller than they would be stand-alone. While I do wish that the price were lesser, I can fully understand why it is so expensive.
Saying that the production costs of the Bose wave radio are so low that they should just sell it for cheap, like all other little radios out there, is synonomous to saying that Subaru should just forget about all of the R&D monies that were spent developing their special $80k rally 6MT, and sell it for an amount that merely pays back the costs for production. That was a long run-on sentence by the way... lol, sorry
