lol they compared a bose system to a B&O system.... bose might as well be a standard OEM install in this case
Everyone who knows his way around high end audio knows at least.
1. Bose is in no way high and. It's a lot of figures and blahblah, but Bose has never made it's way into the living room of a serious high ender.
To be completely honest, the two best selling bose home audio speakers, the 201 and 301, are complete crap compared to cheap ass speakers from non high-end stereo's from Yamaha, Panasonic or Philips. I'm not trying to tell you to buy yamaha, panasonic of philips. You shouldn't. When in doubt, just believe me: Bose isn't any good or in any way respectable for home audio
2. B&O has always been a brand that prefers to choose design above audio quality. Altough they've made some pretty amazing speakers in the past (the Beovox 3000 and S100 for instance) and they did some good stuff with their vintage reel to reel decks (The beocords 1500-2000 were really ahead of their time) they are in no way a high end brand. Most of the turntable technology was by philips and so are most of their speakers.
As the pop up tweeters show, it's all about design, again.
Resonance!
3. The problem with audio in a car is the limited amount of space and the difficult acoustic environment. If a car stereo has to sound as good as it gets, it had to be specifically designed for the space it is in.
Thus, when you open the windows, you change the internal space by miles.
Anyway, fun episode. But the guys have no clue about audio or acoustics. I'm sorry
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Btw, I wonder if he wouldn't hear the speakers popping up (bzzzzt).
Audiophiles amongst us: Did you know McIntosh had a car system?
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(never heard anything about McIntosh making proper speakers, but their amps are pretty neat
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