Well Bose are in on the game

It's not very pretty.

Just $300, a bargain I'm sure.

And rich, room-filling sound. I guess I should sell my stereo.

I for one am sick to the back teeth of people telling me 'it's a Bose system' in hushed tones of reverence!! I mean the wave radio was nice but how the heck did the word Bose become synonymous with quality!!!!

I was looking at a new car the otherday and it has a '$700' Bose package!!!! I can't get away from it where did it all start????

Oooo I feel better now.

Andy

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Originally posted by AndyK:
I can't get away from it where did it all start????

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Perhaps at the point where Amar Bose left his company for academia?

I must admit, though, that never having heard Bose speakers of the Amar Bose era in a decent system I cannot vouch for their quality. What I can say is that in those days they sold by virtue of their sound rather than their marketing.

Well, you know what they say over at Bose Corp. ..."There's a customer born every minute."

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Originally posted by JeremyD:
I must admit, though, that never having heard Bose speakers of the Amar Bose era in a decent system I cannot vouch for their quality. What I can say is that in those days they sold by virtue of their sound rather than their marketing.

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This was before I really knew s**t from Shinola* about hifi, but the old 601s were sort of like poor mans' Shahinian Obelisks! BTW, when did Dr. Bose leave the company?

*Some would argue I still don't.

Dr Bose (which should be pronounced Boshu believe it or not)...hi-fi's most famous Bengali, after our very own Dev B of course.

Hi bhazen. I've just done a Google search, and it seems I was misinformed - according this page http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/metropolis_0199 Bose was still running the company in 1999, some time after I was told he was not. Sorry about that.

What system did you hear the 601s in?
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Rana, my father tells me that Bose can be pronounced as "Borce" or "Borsh" (with a silent British "r", for American readers). I've never heard anyone saying anything that sounded like "Boshu".

So I'm only hi-fi's third most famous Bengali? Boo-hoo.

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Originally posted by JeremyD:
What system did you hear the 601s in?

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This was donkeys ago...probably some old, gold-coloured Marantz stuff with a Technics d.d. 'table (it was a friends' system, substances were consumed, 1970s, baby!).

Indians with surname Bose must be doubly frustrated; from the standpoint of history, another (in)famous person with that name was Subhas(sp?) Chandra Bose, who was nominal commander of the Indian National Army. The INA was formed under the auspices of the Japanese during WWII, with an eye to ousting the British from India. Consisting largely of deserters from the regular Indian Army, it never really took part in battles against the Allies. As the war turned against Japan, the INA deserted back to India via Burma. S.C. Bose was killed in an air crash in 1944, fleeing to Japan.

Hi Jeremy

Dunno for sure, but I know of Boshu's from Kolkata and Dhaka who spell it Bose when writing in English. I strongly suspect that those who don't use the "u" phonetically have adopted a pronunciation more in keeping with the Anglicised spelling. This is quite common from the Raj days. For example, Banarjee and Chatterjee are anglicised pronunciation of Bondarpadaya and Chottorpadaya (not sure of the English spelling BTW).

Cheers

Rana

It's probably pronounced "Smith" --
Just when you hear it coming from his speakers it sounds like "Bose".
Direct/Reflecting and all that.
David

I ran Bose 301s with everything from an great big shiny Trio in 1973 to a Nait 1 in 1997. They were well able to show the differences, and responded well to good stands and general setup (although they need to have the directional paddles removed to give their best). The Nait finally removed their cones, however.

Great speakers, possibly by accident. Later versions sucked, IMHO.

Best;

Mark

Rana,

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Originally posted by Rana Ali:
Dunno for sure, but I know of Boshu's from Kolkata and Dhaka who spell it Bose when writing in English. I strongly suspect that those who don't use the "u" phonetically have adopted a pronunciation more in keeping with the Anglicised spelling.

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Perhaps you're right about the non-Boshu ones being Anglicised. What we can be reasonably sure of, though, is that this particular Bose doesn't pronounce it "Boshu": my father knew the Bose family when he was a student in the USA. (Amar Bose was a teenage whizzkid at the time).

Mark,
That's interesting. I've always suspected that they might sound good with decent equipment. I've mainly heard older Bose speakers [301s, I think] with budget 80s amps in British record shops. However, a relative of mine in Kolkata has/had some large Bose speakers in a system with Japanese electronics [all Akai, I think] that she got in the USA in the early '70s. The amp was clearly struggling with the speakers, which is what made me wonder what they might be capable of with a better amp...

Amazingly enough, I found that recordings made with the Akai cassette deck were almost up to Nakamichi standards!