Bose Corporation
Type	Private
Founded	1964
Headquarters	Framingham, Massachusetts
Key people	Amar Bose, Chairman, Founder Bob Maresca, President Thomas Froeschle, VP, Director of Research, Member of the Board
Industry	Consumer electronics
Products	Loudspeakers, Headphones, Audio equipment, Car audio
Revenue	$1.80 billion (2005)[1]
Employees	10,000
Slogan	Better Sound Through Research
Website	www.bose.com

The Bose Corporation is a privately-held American company based in Framingham, Massachusetts that specializes in audio equipment^[2][3] and holds the philosophy of supporting its technological development through research (thus the company motto). In this respect, 100 percent of its profits are reinvested back into the company^[4]. Bose products can be found in Olympics stadiums,^[5] Broadway theaters, the Sistine Chapel and the Space Shuttle.^[5][6] Image File history File links Bose_logo. ... A private company is a company that is independently owned. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country United States State Massachusetts County Middlesex County Settled 1650 Incorporated 1700 Government  - Type Representative town meeting Area  - Town  26. ... Amar Gopal Bose (Bengali: অমর গোপাল বসু Ômor Gopal Boshu) (born November 2, 1929) is the chairman and founder of Bose Corporation. ... Bob (Robert) Maresca was named President of BoseCorporation, Framingham, Massachusetts, in 2005. ... Consumer electronics is a term used to describe the category of electronic equipment intended for everyday use by people, the consumers. ... A loudspeaker is a device which converts an electrical signal into sound. ... For other uses, see Headphones (disambiguation). ... The term Audio equipment refers to any device designed principally to reproduce broadcast or recorded sounds. ... It has been suggested that In car entertainment be merged into this article or section. ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about work. ... Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country United States State Massachusetts County Middlesex County Settled 1650 Incorporated 1700 Government  - Type Representative town meeting Area  - Town  26. ...

Background

Bose Corporation develops and manufactures audio equipment (including speakers, amplifiers, headphones, automotive sound systems ^[7] for luxury cars ^[8][9]), automotive suspension systems, and performs research on cold fusion ^[10][11][12]. The company was founded in 1964 by Amar G. Bose, a professor of electrical engineering (who retired in 2005) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As of 2005, the company employed about 8,000 people worldwide (2,000 in Massachusetts) and had revenues of over $1.8 billion. Bose has contracts with the US military (Navy^[13], Air Force^[14] & Army^[15]) and NASA ^[16]. Amar Bose is still the Chairman and primary stockholder, and also holds the title of Technical Director.^[17] For the Marty Friedman album, see Loudspeaker (album) An inexpensive low fidelity 3. ... A luxury car is a relatively expensive car. ... This article is about the nuclear reaction. ... Amar Gopal Bose (अमर गोपाल बोस) (born 1929) is an American-born Indian electrical engineer. ... Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... “MIT” redirects here. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the American space agency. ...

History of Bose Corporation presidents

1. William (Bill) Zackowitz (1964-66)
2. Charles "Chuck" Hieken (1966-69)
3. Frank E. Ferguson (1969-76)
4. Amar G. Bose (1976-80)
5. Sherwin Greenblatt (1980-2000)
6. John Coleman (2000-2005)
7. Bob Maresca (Since 2005)

The company spends over $100 million a year in research and engineering, employing a 6500 square meter (70,000 sq. ft.) building in Framingham reserved for that purpose.^[18] In 2004, Bose purchased an additional site from HP in Stow, Massachusetts to house growing automotive and marketing divisions.^[19] The Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly known as HP, is a very large, global company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. ... Stow is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. ...

Early years

In 1956, while a graduate student at MIT, Amar Bose purchased a high-end stereo system and was disappointed when it failed to meet his expectations. ^[20] He later began extensive research aimed at fixing what he saw as fundamental weaknesses plaguing high-end audio systems. The principal weakness, in Bose's view, was that the overall design of the electronics and speaker failed to account for psychoacoustics, i.e. the listener is part of the system. Eight years later, he started the company, charging it with a mission to achieve Better Sound Through Research (which is also the company's slogan). Amar Gopal Bose (Bengali: অমর গোপাল বসু Ômor Gopal Boshu) (born November 2, 1929) is the chairman and founder of Bose Corporation. ... Psychoacoustics is the study of subjective human perception of sounds. ...

Research history

During the company's first year in business Bose Corporation engaged in sponsored research. Its first loudspeaker product, the model 2201, dispersed 22 small mid-range speakers over an eighth of a sphere. It was designed to fit in the corner of a room, reflecting the speaker's sound as a mirror would for light in a corner cube and giving rise to an acoustical image of a sphere in a vastly larger room. Amar Bose used an electronic equalizer to adjust the acoustical output for flat total radiated power. Acoustics is a branch of physics and is the study of sound, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. ... For information about Canadas fiscal transfer system, see Equalization payments. ...

Although these speaker systems accurately emulated the characteristics of an ideal spherical membrane, the results of listening tests were disappointing (some of the reasons for this are detailed in a later publication^[21] from Bose's research department). This led Bose to conduct further research into psychoacoustics that eventually clarified the importance of a dominance of reflected sound arriving at the head of the listener, a listening condition that is characteristic of live performances. This finding led to a revised speaker design in which eight of nine identical small mid-range drivers (with electronic equalization) were aimed at the wall behind the speaker while one driver was aimed forward, thus ensuring a dominance of reflected over direct sound in home listening spaces, replicating the dominant reflected sound fields listeners experience in live performances. An equalization (EQ) filter is a filter, usually adjustable, chiefly meant to compensate for the unequal frequency response of some other signal processing circuit or system. ...

Before hearing his new design for the first time, although confident that his new design would produce a more faithful replication of the "live" listening experience, Amar Bose was unsure as to whether his new "direct/reflected" design would be a small audible improvement or a large one over his earlier design and the best commercially available loudspeakers. The new pentagonal design, named the Model 901, was a very unconventional design for speakers at the time (which were generally either full-size floorstanding units or bookshelf type speakers accompanied by a subwoofer that handled only the very lowest frequencies). The Model 901 premiered in 1968 and was an immediate commercial success, and the Bose Corporation grew rapidly during the 1970s. A bookcase is an article of furniture, forming a shelved receptacle, usually perpendicular or horizontal, for the storage of books. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ...

Amar Bose believes that imperfect knowledge of psychoacoustics limits the ability to adequately characterize quantitatively any two arbitrary sounds that are perceived differently, and to adequately characterize and quantify all aspects of perceived quality. He believes, for example, that distortion is much over-rated as a factor in perceived quality in the complex sounds that comprise music, noting that a sine wave and a square wave (a hugely distorted sine wave) are audibly indistinguishable above 7 kHz. Similarly, he does not find measurable relevance to perceived quality in other easily measured parameters of loudspeakers and electronics, and therefore does not publish those specifications for Bose products. The ultimate test, Bose insists, is the listener's perception of audible quality (or lack of it) and his or her own preferences.^[22] Unlike other major speaker manufacturers, Bose does not publish specifications relating to the measured electrical and objective acoustic performance of its products.^{[23] [24]}. This reluctance to publish information is due to Bose's rejection of these measurements in favour of "more meaningful measurement and evaluation procedures"^[25]. For other uses, see Distortion (disambiguation). ... In trigonometry, an ideal sine wave is a waveform whose graph is identical to the generalized sine function y = Asin[ω(x − α)] + C, where A is the amplitude, ω is the angular frequency (2π/P where P is the wavelength), α is the phase shift, and C... A square wave is a kind of basic waveform. ... This article is about the SI unit of frequency. ...

Additionally, the company researches portable audio within the fields of Circumaural and Supra-aural headphones, centering within the lines of Acoustic Noise Cancellation (see Bose Headphone Family). Active noise control (also known as noise cancellation or antinoise) is a method for preventing unwanted sound. ... The Bose Headphone Family are the companys portable audio solutions in its consumer electronics lineup. ...

Cold Fusion Research

In 1991 Bose Corporation began research into cold fusion ^[26][27]. Company engineers built a precision calorimeter^[28], began replicating prior experiments, and concluded that there was no net energy gain. However, more recent experiments using different techniques have produced more encouraging results ^[29][30]. This article is about the nuclear reaction. ... A calorimeter is a device used for calorimetry, the science of measuring the heat of chemical reactions or physical changes as well as heat capacity. ...

Bose Stores

in 1993 Bose opened up its first store in Kittery, Maine. Since then Bose has opened 160 stores in the United States and numerous locations world-wide. In Britain there are 8 Bose stores, including one on Regent Street. Bose stores feature a 15 to 25 seat theater which has a short film that demonstrates a Lifestyle Home Entertainment System using a high-definition front LCD projector. At one point in the show a three-sided box is placed in front of the center speaker, and the Lifestyle system automatically adjusts and corrects the sound in the room via AdaptIQ technology. Stores located in factory outlets discount prices on some products and sell both new and factory renewed (retested open-box) products. Location of town of Kittery in state of Maine Kittery is a town located in York County, Maine. ... Official language(s) None (English and French de facto) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 39th  - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²)  - Width 210 miles (338 km)  - Length 320 miles (515 km)  - % water 13. ... The Quadrant at the bottom of Regent Street. ... The Bose Lifestyle Home Entertainment Family is Boses line of premium home theater systems. ...

Proprietary technologies

• Tri-Port Earcup Drivers
• Acoustic Noise Cancellation
• Acoustimass Technology
• Acoustic Waveguide Technology
• Direct/Reflecting Technology
• Psychoacoustic Equalization
• TrueSpace Technology
• Electromagnetic Suspension System for Automobiles

Lines of Specialized Products

Car Audio

Bose has a wide range of speakers for car audio and has even started to make consoles for car audio including the Bose Media System which can play CDs, DVD audio discs, DVD video discs, Super Audio CDs, MP3s, AAC, and features a music storage system.

At the 2007 auto show in Geneva, Switzerland Bose launched a new media system with the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti. The new system combines stereo, navigation, and hands free calling into one component and interface.^[31] In 2007 the Bose media system won the International Telematics Award for the "Best Storage Solution for In-Car Environment" [2]. Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German:   //, Italian: Ginevra //, Romansh: Genevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ... 2006 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti interior The Ferrari 612 Scaglietti (skal-yeti) is a Gran Turismo car produced by Ferrari since 2004. ...

Automotive Suspension System

Another area of research and development at Bose Corporation is two-state, non-linear power processing and conditioning. Several early patents were awarded to Amar Bose and other Bose engineers and this technology is one of the key elements in an innovative project that the company disclosed in 2004 after more than 20 years of research,^[32] an automobile suspension system that uses electromagnetic principles instead of the hydraulics that are common today. This system uses electromagnetic linear motors to raise or lower the wheels of an automobile in response to un-even bumps or potholes on the road.^[33] The wheels are raised when approaching a bump, or extended into a pothole, within milliseconds, thus keeping the vehicle steady. This technology is another application of Bose's active noise reduction technology for speakers and earphones. The unevenness of the road is sensed, processed much like a sound wave. A cancelling wave is generated, which is applied to the wheels through the linear motors.^[17] Amar Bose expects the system to be available commercially on high-end luxury cars by 2009.^[34] In a French interview Bose even shows off the car jumping over an obstacle.^[35] For other uses, see Patent (disambiguation). ... “Car” and “Cars” redirect here. ... The front suspension components of a Ford Model T. Suspension is the term given to the system of springs, shock absorbers and linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels. ... Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: a field which exerts a force on particles that possess the property of electric charge, and is in turn affected by the presence and motion of those particles. ... Table of Hydraulics and Hydrostatics, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ...

Pro Speaker Systems

Bose produces professional speaker systems like the 102, 402, 802, 25SE, 32SE, 32, 8, 16, 3, and 6 that are made for musicians, professional and commercial applications.

L1 Personalized Amplification System

Bose makes the L1 Personalized Amplification Systems for Musicians^[36]. Bose has been actively encouraging the use of the term L1 for this product line, and frequently refers to it on their website^[37] as the L1 portable line array.

On October 15, 2003, Bose Corporation began selling the L1 Model I family of products through its internal CFDT sales division, and www.bose.com (in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada or U.S. Virgin Islands only). Guitar Center and Musicians Friend began selling these products on November 1, 2003, in stores nationwide.^[38]

On March 28, 2007, Bose Corporation introduced the L1 Model II system. It became available for sale May 1, 2007, through its internal sales groups and participating authorized dealers.^[39][40] At the same time the T1 ToneMatch Audio Engine was introduced^[41]. This separate processor is the main input and user interface for the Model II. It is also compatible with the original L1 System. That original L1 System is now known simply as the L1 Classic.^[42] It was replaced by the L1 Model I^[43]. This new model looks and is functionally similar to the Classic. The L1 Model I is RoHS compliant, as is the L1™ Model II. The Directive on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS) 2002/95/EC [1] (commonly referred to as the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive) was adopted in February 2003 by the European Union. ...

Bose maintains an active Musicians Community Message Board for support, and there is an owner maintained Unofficial Wiki and FAQ

Bose-Electroforce

In 2004 Bose acquired company assets related to the development, manufacture and sales of materials testing equipment, founding the ElectroForce Systems Group The ElectroForce Systems Group provides materials testing and durability simulation instruments to research institutions, universities, medical device companies and engineering organizations worldwide.

Lines of Home audio products

Multimedia systems

• Bose computer speakers
• Bose headphones
• Bose SoundDock

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Speaker systems

• Bose wave systems
• Bose stereo speakers

The Bose Wave radio is a tabletop stereo manufactured by the Bose Corporation. ...

Home entertainment systems

• Bose Lifestyle Home Entertainment Systems
• Bose 3-2-1 Home Entertainment Systems
• Bose Acoustimass Home Entertainment Systems

The Bose Lifestyle Home Entertainment Family is Boses line of premium home theater systems. ... Bose Corporation first introduced the 3-2-1 series in 2001 with the 3-2-1[1]. It has the ability to simulate surround sound from two speakers. ... The Bose Acoustimass Home Entertainment Systems are Boses line of surround sound speakers. ...

Opinions about Bose

Discussion of "Bose Quality" can sometimes elicit strong, and polarized opinions. There seem to be two major camps: those who see Bose as a maker of good, sometimes "High-End" audio equipment, and others who see Bose as company that uses marketing to make extravagant claims for otherwise ordinary products. The debates can be extended, and sometimes rancorous as evidenced in online forums^[44].

On the consumer-level outside of this debate, Bose is regarded as a producer of high-end audio systems. ^{[45][46][47][48][49][50]}. A market study published in March 2006 by the independent market research firm Forrester Research reported that Bose's brand name was among the 3 most trusted brand names (by the US population) of consumer-electronics or computer brand names in America.^[51] High-end audio is a term used to describe equipment that is purported by the manufacturers to be the best, regardless of the price. ... Forrester logo. ...

In 1968, Amar Bose presented a classic paper to the Audio Engineering Society entitled: "On the Design, Measurement and Evaluation of Loudspeakers" available from the AES at a small charge^[52]. Following the logic in this paper, Bose Corporation has endeavored to strike an economic balance between cost and performance to provide high quality as judged by the average listener whose criteria of quality include faithful reproduction of the listener's experience in a live performance, which according to Bose requires a dominance of the reverberant sound field in the listening space (a typical home environment). (see audiophile beliefs). An audiophile, from Latin audire[1] to hear and Greek philos[2] loving, can be generally defined as a person dedicated to achieving high fidelity in the recording and playback of music . ...

Criticisms

Bose's systems were criticized by Stereophile in 1975^[53] in a review of the 901 system, stating that in the magazine's opinion the system was unlikely to appeal to perfectionists with a developed taste in precise imaging, detail, and timbre, and that these shortcomings were an excessive price to pay for the improvement in impact and ambience generated by the large proportion of reflected sound [to on-axis sound]. The author also stated that while the system Stereophile magazine reviewed produced a more realistic semblance of natural ambiance than any other speaker system, that they found it otherwise unexceptional, that it was unlikely to appeal to "perfectionists who have developed a taste for subtleties of detail and timbre". Stereophile is a monthly magazine that focuses on audio equipment, such as loudspeakers and amplifiers, and audio-related news, such as online audio streaming. ...

Audio forums tend to talk about the non-linear frequency response of certain Bose systems. A reviewer in PC Magazine stated that he believes Bose is not a producer of high-end audio systems, because it didn't fulfill his expectations of what a high-end system should be.^[54] (Widely-accepted performance characteristics of 'high-end' audio systems typically include a flat frequency response curve throughout the audible spectrum, and precise impulse response.) Audio enthusiasts frequently criticize Bose in online forums, accusing it of overpricing its products and criticizing the sound produced by Bose products.^[55] In addition, Bose products are not sold at many stores which specialize in high-end audio and home theater. Bose also does not have frequency response information listed on their web site. PC Magazine (or PC Mag) is a computer magazine published biweekly (except in January and July) both in print and online. ...

Legal Action

In 1981 Bose unsuccessfully sued the magazine Consumer Reports for libel. Consumer Reports reported in a review that the sound from the system that they reviewed "tended to wander about the room." The District Court found that Consumer Reports "had published the false statement with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of its truth or falsity" when it changed what the original reviewer wrote about the speakers in his pre-publication draft. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's ruling on liability, and the United States Supreme Court affirmed in a 6-3 vote in the case Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc., finding that the statement was made without actual malice, and therefore there was no liability for libel.^[56][57][58] Consumer Reports is an American magazine published monthly by Consumers Union. ... Holding Product disparagement cases that involve First Amendment claims are governed by the actual malice standard of New York Times Co. ... Holding The First Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth, protected a newspaper from being sued for libel in state court for making false defamatory statements about the official conduct of a public official, because the statements were not made with knowing or reckless disregard for the truth. ...

Market share

In 2006 Bose ranked second in Home Audio retail, behind Sony (based on retail point-of-sale data for the period of January through October, 2006).^[59] Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ...

Bose competes against the following companies in the consumer speaker and home theater market:^[60]

Bose directly competes against the following companies in the consumer headphone market:^[60]
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Locations

Headquarters

• Framingham, MA, USA

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Automotive division

• Stow, MA, USA

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Plants

• Framingham, MA, USA
• Columbia, SC, USA
• Carrickmacross, Republic of Ireland
• San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, Mexico
• Tijuana, B.C., Mexico

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Number of retail stores

• Over 151 as of October 20, 2006

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External links

• The official Bose website with links to various national sites.
• History of Bose Corporation
• Active Suspension website
• Bose's line of consumer-grade headphones
• Bose's "Radio System" Challenge Pages
• The Bose FAQ
• Stereophile review of the Bose 901
• G4TV Roundup: iPod Speakers
• Aviation Headset X review

References