Control allows freedom to innovate - Bose Innovation

Google “Bose good bad” and you’ll find many passionate articles about Bose products and how good, or bad, many people think they are. Newsgroups host endless debates between those attacking and defending Bose.

I own a few Bose products – Acoustimass® 5 speakers (AM5), QuietComfort® 2 Headphones and Wave® Clock/CD/Radio. Each performs well and resolves a particular problem for me although there is often a price premium attached. The AM5’s allow decent sound in a small room where conventional speakers just wouldn't fit, the QC2’s noise reduction makes flying a pleasure and the Wave Radio is the best sounding clock radio I’ve ever heard.

Whatever you think; Chief Executive have an interesting article about Bose with some background on their history. Amar Bose discusses how remaining privately owned and free of “venture capital” has been a key component of the company’s success. Energy isn’t wasted reporting to the market or chasing short term investment returns demanded by shareholders. This has allowed it to maintain long term research efforts which might result in a breakthrough product or might not. It might be today, tomorrow, or perhaps never but the fact that Bose are still in business when many others aren’t means they must be getting something right.

Chief Executive - Bose's Sound Strategy

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