ivirs
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Nickname: srivi
Registered: Sep, 2003
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Do you like the "BOSE" systems..??
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Posted: Sep 16, 2003 12:18 PM
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if you had not allowed Bose's dad to be in USA...The world would not have had BOSE!!
That's why they call me the bose...
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 12:46:39 AM ] Call him the Minister of Sound. Hes earned that sobriquet. Amar Gopal Bose, the famously reclusive man who heads the eponymous company Bose Corporation, has distinguished himself from the crowd for his imagination, grit, courage
and for gifting music lovers with a product thats become synonymous with music and sound systems. What usually sets winners apart from the also-rans is attitude. And, Amar Bose has loads of it. When he failed in his search for a pair of good quality speakers, which would replicate the majestic sounds of New Yorks best concert halls, he went ahead and built one. And the byproduct of this labour is a $950-m organisation and a brand that sits as comfortably in the Vatican as it does in a NASA space shuttle.
Amar Bose was born in 1930 in Philadelphia. His father, Noni, had to flee Calcutta in the 1920s due to his involvement with the Independence movement. The young Amars interest in electronics began with miniature trains. Unable to buy a new one, he bought old models that couldnt be repaired by the shops and fixed them. This got him a reputation as a fixer as well as some work, and once he extended his repairing skills to transistors, work came in a torrent. Frankly no one was astonished when Bose went on to study electrical engineering at the mecca of engineering: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As a student at MIT, Bose learned that 80% of the sound heard by a person in a concert hall is indirect that is, sound bounced off the ceiling and walls rather than direct from stage to ear. His second realisation came when, while doing his graduate work at MIT, he decided to purchase a new stereo system. He was sorely disappointed to find that speakers with impressive technical specifications failed to reproduce the realism of a live performance. This led to extensive research in speaker design and psycho-acoustics. Boses findings resulted in significantly new design concepts that help deliver the emotional impact of live music. Bose capitalised on this notion by inventing the 901 Direct/Reflecting speaker system (1968): one of the first stereo loudspeakers to utilise the space around them, instead of reproducing sound as if in a vacuum.
But it wasnt easy selling the ideas. However deep his knowledge, marketing of patents proved extremely difficult. Companies wanted not the patents, but the person behind them. Help came in the form of MIT professor, YW Lee. Not stopping at just dishing out routine advice to start his own venture, Lee bet his $10,000 life savings on Boses ideas. Six years later when the company bought back Lees investment, it paid him $260,000.
Founded in 1964, Bose Corps first products were high-power amplifiers produced under contract to the US military. The first Bose product for the home the 901 Direct/Reflecting loudspeaker system was introduced in 1968 to international critical acclaim and consumer acceptance. The 901 stereo speaker was a runaway hit with connoisseurs starved for true sound and remained the quality of sound for 25 years. Its popularity can be gauged from the fact that it was minting money for the company for over two-and-half decades, against the standard accepted product lifecycle of six to seven years. In 1972, Bose introduced its first professional loudspeaker for performing musicians. The introduction of Acoustimass speaker technology reshaped conventional thinking about the relationship between speaker size and sound. Speakers small enough to fit in the palm produced sound quality previously thought impossible from small speakers.
The company that started in 1964 with a handful of people is now an international success. Wholly-owned Bose subsidiaries, distributors, and manufacturing facilities are found throughout the world.
Amar Bose still puts in 80 hours per week, swims for long hours and squeezes in sessions of competitive badminton. He has more than 24 patents to his name. In addition, to his position as chairman and technical director of Bose Corp, he retains his MIT faculty appointment as professor of electrical engineering and computer science. He is firm in his belief that only the best education can lead to the best technology. He teaches acoustics, and supervises graduate and undergraduate thesis students. Bose still believes in the old virtues of really challenging homework, and his students are always being given a formidable workload. His ever-optimistic message remains that man is a 100-cylinder engine utilising just one cylinder.
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