Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI Cable

[kilo2]

The ignorant are the ones who don't do the research and buy Bose.

Don't worry BOSE doesn't like you either.

[Rolex]

Bose is the global market leader in speakers, selling well over $1billion of products per year and earning close to $200 million in profit. If they've been selling crap at exorbitent prices for the past decades, I congratulate them on their marketing success and their hard work.

Mr. Bose is rich, but not smart like some of you...

Here's how it works: companies try to sell products or services for as much as they can. That is their job. Customers will choose to either buy or not to buy. Things have a way of working out.

If Bose were a public company, I'd buy some stock because I, too, am not smart like some of you.  

[Masherbrum]

Quantity doesn't mean Quality.

[Rolex]

I didn't say it did. McDonald's has proven that. I choose not to eat there, but enough people eat there to make it a market leader, too. I'm not going to call them ignorant. The more people you go around calling ignorant or stupid, the more chance you have of looking like a fool when you might want to ask a favor from them some day.  

[sluggish]

Again...  If you're looking for something that's easy to set up, looks nice and you're not really interested in high quality sound or how much it costs, Bose is for you.  If you have a Bose that's what you've got.  Just stop running around telling everyone how fantastic it sounds; you make yourself look foolish.

By the way, it's Dr. Bose.  He didn't go to school all of those years to be called "Mister".

I have a lower end Pioneer DTS receiver a pair of Radioshack subwoofers and a matched set of in-wall Theater Design speakers.  I would put my cobbled up poor-man's frankenstein system against an acoustimass system any day.

[Masherbrum]

Again...  If you're looking for something that's easy to set up, looks nice and you're not really interested in high quality sound or how much it costs, Bose is for you.  If you have a Bose that's what you've got.  Just stop running around telling everyone how fantastic it sounds; you make yourself look foolish.

By the way, it's Dr. Bose.  He didn't go to school all of those years to be called "Mister".

I have a lower end Pioneer DTS receiver a pair of Radioshack subwoofers and a matched set of in-wall Theater Design speakers.  I would put my cobbled up poor-man's frankenstein system against an acoustimass system any day.

Amen.

[Jayhawk]

If you work with sound, your ears are trained.

I bought a set of Logitech 2.1 speakers with sub a few years ago for my computer.  I was pretty happy (still am for the price) with them.  Now, as my job has me working with some amazing musicians, an awesome Digidesign VENUE D-show mixing console, and impressive stacks, well, now I want more out of my speakers. 

I'm no expert, but my ears sure hear things differently than they did a year ago.

[icepac]

I prefer to not use the subs for mixing.

I just use some event 20/20 speakers.

[clerick]

Marketing is a powerful thing. It tells people what they "need" before they realize it themselves. When I was selling audio I'd often present people the option of a Bose mini-system, or the like, and a two or three channel system for the same money but upgraded all around. Some would opt for the better audio quality but most would get stuck on needing 5.1 surround sound. Nevermind that their rooms wouldn't do it justice or that they would almost unanimously acknowlege the superior sound quality of the non-surround system, they HAD to have surround, even if it meant buying lower quality equipment.

Marketing...

[RTHolmes]

I prefer to not use the subs for mixing.

I just use some event 20/20 speakers.

never seen those in the UK. on a budget I really like M-Audio BX8s, although with unlimited funds it would have to be a set of ATCs the only mix room I have access to at the moment has genelecs, and I'm still not totally convinced by them.

coming from a studio background I still dont really understand why there arent more active speakers out there for the home hifi market

[RTHolmes]

I'm no expert, but my ears sure hear things differently than they did a year ago.

you can definitely train your ear. I thought mine was pretty good but some engineers have superhuman hearing - I was playing a Cardigans CD to an engineer I was working with and he spotted a timing glitch on one of the songs on the first play through. we loaded it into a DAW and sure enough there it was - and just a handful of samples long

[sluggish]

never seen those in the UK. on a budget I really like M-Audio BX8s, although with unlimited funds it would have to be a set of ATCs the only mix room I have access to at the moment has genelecs, and I'm still not totally convinced by them.

coming from a studio background I still dont really understand why there arent more active speakers out there for the home hifi market

These are the monitors I would go with...

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/mackie-hr824mk2-studio-monitor-2010

[Meatwad]

I find it amusing people will spend $40 on a 6ft monster brand HDMI cable where the 6ft HDMI that was bought online for $1.25 works just as good

[Masherbrum]

I find it amusing people will spend $40 on a 6ft monster brand HDMI cable where the 6ft HDMI that was bought online for $1.25 works just as good

My cables were $15-20 a piece and I completely do not care for "Monster Branded cables" either Meat.   I do have some $20 Original Monster Speaker Cable though, bought them in 1992 and I like the 12 gauge wire.   But around 1997-8, they went into another direction and I will not buy their overpriced crap.

[sluggish]

My cables were $15-20 a piece and I completely do not care for "Monster Branded cables" either Meat.   I do have some $20 Original Monster Speaker Cable though, bought them in 1992 and I like the 12 gauge wire.   But around 1997-8, they went into another direction and I will not buy their overpriced crap.

I will buy them when I find them on clearance for $10 because they do have superior build quality.  I bought 50 six foot HDMI cables from a guy on eBay for $60.  None have failed and they work just as well and perform as well as the Monster cables I pick up on the cheap.