I hear ya. I've been hooked since I was a kid in Regina - we'd ride our bikes to the practice field every day, chat with the players during practice and ride on the blocking sleds. Try that now. I won't say how old I am, but we're talking Lancaster, Reed, Campbell & Co.
Every few years there's a glimmer of hope. In between there's a lot of... "take Saturday, for instance".

Apologies to the OP for further hijacking an already 'jacked thread.

 

In my opinion B&O has historically been about style first, and audio ... yeah a little of that as well. I have owned a fair amount of B&O audio equipment in the last 20 years (Beomaster 1900, a variety of turntables, speakers). Years back I listened to a Beocenter 2300. Retail was something like $800 and the systems was ... clearly not geared toward providing the best sound for the dollar. B&O has some great audio engineers, but none of the products that I've owned or auditioned ever let audio get in the way of good styling.

So, where does B&O get it's reputation for being a high-performance audio brand?

John Feng

 

...and Bose is...?

 

I have a 1959 ARVIN tube type table radio that sounds as good as my Bose Wave Radio.

 

Ahhh - the Bose Wave Radio. Consisting of a 24" bent-up piece of PVC sewer pipe smashed into a cheep plastic housing connected to a 4" "bass driver".

...wait I'm sorry, what I meant to say was: "Proprietary Waveguide Technology"

 

Yeah, but it fits just right on top of the TV in the bedroom.

 

Good point - I hate to see that TV after placing that Tube Radio on top of it

 

I remember when we could heat the whole living room with the tubes from our color TV.

 

Why is this thread in the 2007 G35 sedan forum?

It'd be nice to come here to read about the 2007 G35.

Instead, I find some guy's rant about a stereo company in general. There's nothing wrong with ranting about it, but there are other forums for that. I'm surprised that this thread hasn't been moved.

 

It started as a rant about the bose system IN the G35...

 

Yep. But this subforum is about the 2007 G35. No one has here has heard the system in that vehicle.

 

I've heard it, but I can't comment on it because I've got a conflict of interest.
But other people have heard it, including a veteran audiophile journalist, a quartet of top studio musicians, several top recording & mastering engineers, and a few more "general" automotive journalists.

http://stereophile.com/news/071706infiniti/

John Feng

 

Exactly. And once more I say let's not let this go any further till AFTER people have heard it. I've got my opinion about about BOSE just like everyone else does. But this thread has gone past the discussion realm into a pointless pissing match.

ENOUGH ALREADY.

 

people are saying about the B&O system in the A8. People who haven't heard it, probably haven't seriously listened to any B&O system before, only know B&O has a high priced boutique brand down at the mall (yes, they have mall stores) ... are dead sure the B&O system must be the ultimate OEM audio system ...

I personally think this is due, in large part, to the price. It's that classic audiophile marketing ploy ... if you price it high enough someone's going to think it's really really good.

And, I already know the other parallel to that last statement which you are itching to make. As in the title, I won't argue that either.

With the G35 (2007) press event, at least we had the guts to invite a reviewer from a magazine that some consider to be the anti-Bose magazine...

John Feng

 

This be the point! Many consider B&O high end audio, Many consider Bose high end. These folks are not wrong anymore than chocolate is better than vanilla. Look at the OEM car audio manufactures. BOSE, ROCKFORD, Infinity, JBL and ML and Harmon Kardon. Most have good and bad examples of their work. Want to hear GOOD BOSE check out a caddy CTS, BAD BOSE (the G comes to mind). Compare a B&O home system to ADCOM components and Klipsh heritage speakers. The B&O looks great sounds good, the adcom/klpsch is a rack of components that sounds near perfect.


I'll second the point that were 10 pages in to a discussion about an audio system NO ONE has listened to. (perhaps these guys could take to reviewing restaurants they've never eaten at, books they've never read, or movies they have never seen).