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Finally, a Bose music device that the rest of us can afford
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WORLD CLASS Bose is a brand every music buff drools over
Good music is not about gadgetry, but about listening pleasure. As the technology behind digital music systems becomes more refined, customers are offered players and sound systems featuring enough controls to baffle a rocket scientist. Do we really want to adjust dozens of sliders, buttons and dials that control treble, bass, mid frequencies, cut-offs, surround sound so on and so forth?
One man decided more than 40 years ago that the average music lover wanted a system that spared him a lot of technical decision-making, and just provided great sound. That man was Amar G. Bose, a professor of electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for almost half a century, who took time off to start his own company, Bose Corporation in 1964 with one aim — leveraging the science of sound to produce compelling audio products. Over the years, this very Indian name has become a synonym for high-end audio systems. Dr. Bose and his team invented technologies such as the Wave Guide to literally shrink loudspeakers into something you could hold in your hand. They also created the technology to cancel unwanted sound, using sound, leading to ambient noise-cancelling headphones.
Most of Bose's consumer products have been fairly pricey and even the Wave music system released earlier this year in India cost more than Rs. 20,000. For the rest of us, the Bose brand was something we could only aspire for or see in discos or music concerts.
Finally, last month, Bose launched its first product in the popular category of portable audio players. The Triport CD/MP3 music player looks like any other device in this class, but includes some special features such as MyMix, which allows you to preset a sequence of your favourite tracks, and also arrange MP3 tracks into folders allowing easy accessibility.
Like all Bose's music products, the Triport reproduces the low notes with great fidelity and does away with the artificial bass boost that is a common feature in music players. The headphones that come with the system weigh just 180 grams and the ergonomically designed ear-cups cut out almost all outside noises.
In keeping with Dr. Bose's philosophy, the specifications of the Triport music system do not talk about the frequency response, the power output and other technical jargon. That is for the brainy design engineers to bother about. What we are left with is a product which makes even a second-rate recording sound sublime. And surely, that is what listening pleasure is all about? The Triport Music Systemcosts, just under Rs. 12,000, which is almost the rupee equivalent of the international pricing for the headphone and the CD player, separately sold at $150 and $90, respectively.
Whether your taste is Bach or Britney, Pankaj Udhas or Pink Floyd, the Bose Triport will sound like something you never thought you would ever hear from a portable music system.
A. Vishnu
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