Bose immediately realized he had a very memorable gift sitting in his office. Bose told the magazine at the time. In one of its user manuals , Bose claimed it took 14 years to research and develop the Wave audio system, and the work on the waveguide technology earned Dr. Bose and Dr. Short numerous awards. And, fun fact: The company also produced a massive subwoofer, designed for large group events like movies, that relies on the same technology as the Wave.
This article, written by Short , explains how that worked. The company priced high out of the gate, predicting a market existed for extremely expensive alarm clock radios—something even its competitors, like Boston Acoustics President Andy Petite, admitted was there.
Bose's early success with the speakers and their later variations won them interest from audiophiles, but the company's decision to later simultaneously target the consumer market and keep their prices high led to continual skepticism from enthusiasts. If you've followed Apple with derision over the last 30 years or so, it's kind of like that.
Part of that, admittedly, may be partly due to the way the company sold its innovations. The quality of what Bose was selling was arguably of higher quality than most of what was selling on Comedy Central at 10 AM while Mystery Science Theater was on the air, but even if it was slumming a little, the strategy was necessary. The problem is, fancy speakers don't just market themselves. The public has to be sold on why they're even worth it.
The Bose Wave, the successor to the Audio Wave, has been heavily optimized to sell in its current channels—with psychology a heavy factor. For example, when the company struggled to sell Wave systems through magazine ads, the company changed its marketing strategy in multiple ways: It changed the headline on the ad to "hear what you've been missing," then doubled down on the testimonials that worked so well for the s.
The example is frequently brought up by Arizona State University marketing professor Robert Cialdini, an expert on persuasion, who says that the approach helped downplay the newness of the device on the market. It's clear by the channels being used that Bose has always wanted the Wave to be a device for the people, rather than the audiophiles. That's OK.
Plebs are allowed to be impressed by a sound system, too, even if they know nothing about proper placement or anything like that. If there's a quibble to the strategy, however, it's that the price and positioning might have caught Bose a bit flat-footed as it became more important for music to be portable.
But what they lack in sonic excellence they more than make up for in knowing how to sell it. And that's a lesson many high-end companies could learn. Wilson notes that while the infomercial he watched spent much of its time making the case that the people in the commercial were blown away by the quality of the speakers in the Wave system, some of the time was actually spent on explaining how the speakers worked, including a part where it was explained how sound vibrations going through the Wave system's waveguide speaker technology by using a candle— an experiment replicated in this YouTube clip.
The weird thing about Bose is that, despite the company's pedigree, despite these longstanding ties to academia and engineering, the company still has all sorts of haters. One clip that stood out to me when I was digging around featured a middle-aged guy who clearly was not impressed by the engineering that was Amar Bose's life's work.
There are reasons to be critical of Bose as a company, not least of which are the firm's high prices, but describing 14 years of scientific research as a "scam," as that guy does, is perhaps a little too far. Anonymous Not logged in Create account Log in. Hand W iki.
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