Is Bose sound good or bad? We have raised this issue several times in SmartHouse Magazine with many of you claiming it is downright awful which other reader have said "bugger the sound we love the design".
Now questions are being raised about the quality of Bose's noise cancelling headphones. Steve Perry writing in the US asks the question. Why is Bose so secretive about the frequency response of their noise-cancelling headphones? Could it be because it's not as good as they could wish?
A: Bose has a long history of not disclosing specifications of any type. Wikipedia's entry on Bose Corp. states Bose's position, as taken from a paper published by the Audio Engineering Society, at aes.org: "The ultimate test, Bose insists, is your perception of audible quality (or lack of it) and your preferences. Unlike other major speaker manufacturers, Bose does not publish specifications relating to the measured electrical and objective acoustic performance of its products. This reluctance to publish information is due to Bose's rejection of these measurements in favour of "more meaningful measurement and evaluation procedures."
