Bose
offers high end audio systems and speakers including::
*
Wave® Music Systems
o Wave® music system
o Wave® radio II
o Acoustic Wave® music system
o Acoustic Wave® music system with multi-disc changer
* Home Theater
o Lifestyle® 48 Home Entertainment System
o Lifestyle® 38 Home Entertainment System
o Lifestyle® 28 Series II Home Entertainment System
o 3·2·1 GS Series II system
o 3·2·1 Series II system
o Acoustimass® 16 home entertainment speaker system
o Acoustimass® 10 home entertainment speaker system
o Acoustimass® 6 home entertainment speaker system
o VCS-30® center/surround package
o VCS-10® center channel speaker
* Stereo Speakers
o 301® Direct/Reflecting® speakers
o 201® Direct/Reflecting® speakers
o 161™ speakers
o 901® Direct/Reflecting® speakers
o Acoustimass® 5 speakers
o Acoustimass® 3 speakers
o Virtually Invisible® 191 speakers
* Multimedia Sound
o SoundDock™ digital music system
o Companion® 3 multimedia speaker system
o Companion® 2 multimedia speaker system
o TriPort® Headphones
* Outdoor and Marine Speakers
o FreeSpace® 51 environmental speakers
o 251® environmental speakers
o 151® SE environmental speakers
o 131® SE marine speakers
* Headphones and Headsets
o QuietComfort® 2 Acoustic Noise Cancelling® Headphones
o TriPort® Headphones
o TriPort® Music System
o Aviation Headset X
* Accessories
o Stands and Brackets
o Remote Controls
o Acoustic Wave® Music System Accessories
o Other Accessories
* Lifestyle® System Expansion
* Custom Home Installations
* Products for Musicians
o Basic package - L1 Cylindrical Radiator™ loudspeaker
o Single Bass package - L1 Cylindrical Radiator™
loudspeaker
o Double Bass package - L1 Cylindrical Radiator™
loudspeaker
The
Bose Corporation is an American company based in Framingham,
Massachusetts that researches, develops and manufactures
audio equipment, including speakers, amplifiers, and automotive
sound systems. The company was founded in 1964 by Dr.
Amar G. Bose, a professor of electrical engineering at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. As
of 2003, the company employed about 8,000 people worldwide
and had revenues of over $1 billion. Dr. Bose remains
the CEO.
During
the company's first year in business the company engaged
in sponsored research while developing the first loudspeaker
product, the model 2201, which dispersed 22 small mid-range
speakers over an eighth of a sphere, designed to fit into
the corner of a room, which reflected the speaker's sound
as a mirror would for light in a corner cube, giving rise
to an acoustical image of a sphere in vastly larger room.
Dr. Bose used an electronic equalizer to adjust the acoustical
output for flat total radiated power.
Although
these speaker systems emulated the characteristics of
an ideal spherical membrane, the listening results were
disappointing, leading Bose to further research that eventually
clarified the importance of a dominance of reflected sound
that is characteristic of live performances. This 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 and one driver
aimed forward, thus insuring a dominance of reflected
over direct sound in home listening spaces, similar to
the dominant reflected sound fields listeners experience
in live performances.
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, Dr. 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, although it apparently violated many widely-held
beliefs about "proper" HiFi technology, was
an immediate commercial success and the Bose Corporation
grew rapidly during the 1970s.
A
second area of research and development that has played
an important role at Bose Corporation is two-state, non-linear
power processing and conditioning. Several early patents
were awarded to Dr. Bose and other Bose engineers and
this technology is one of the key elements in an innovative
project that the company disclosed in 2004, an automobile
shock absorber that uses electromagnetic principles instead
of the hydraulics that are common today.
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