Comments on the Bose "TRUTH" paper:
By my count, there are seven incorrect uses of the word "it's" in this paper. "It's" is either a contraction of "it is" or "it has" and is not the possessive form of the pronoun "it".
Under "THE COLD HARD NUMBERS (PART TWO):", we read, "...total continuous wattage of root-means(sic)-squared power...". Despite the writer's best intention, this is a meaningless term. There is no such quantity as "rms power". You won't find it in any electrical engineering or physics textbook or in the National Electrical Code.
Unfortunately, you will find "rms power" used by many power amplifier manufacturers to rate their product's output power. The correct (and only) term to use is continuous average sinewave power.
"But I'm using a true rms voltmeter and ammeter and rms voltage times rms current (in amperes) equals rms power" you might say. Close, but no cigar. The product of rms voltage and rms amperes is average power expressed in watts. What we want to measure is the equivalent DC heating effect of the AC power from the power amp and that is expressed as average power.
The writer also states, "...the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) created a regulation standard recently in which all devices have to be rated...". This "recent" standard is known by the FTC as The Amplifier Rule and was promulgated on May 3,1974(39FR 15387). There probably have been more recent regulations issued covering powered loudspeakers and automotive electronics, but those covering consumer electronics power amplifier rating disclosures are almost 28 years old.
Under "Bose and the patent system", the writer states, "...their patents are so unoriginal that they've never even TRIED to sue someone for infringing upon them." With just a little basic web searching, I found that Bose successfully sued JBL for infringing on their patent #5,714,721.
Amar Bose's acoustical research at MIT showed that only about 11% of the sound arriving at the listener's ears in a concert hall was direct sound and the remainder was reverberant energy in the form of delayed reflections from the room's surfaces. The Bose 901 (remember that twenty-foot wide piano sound?) was his (IMHO) misguided attempt to re-create the acoustical properties of a concert hall in one's living room.
Having owned Klipschorns for 25 years, I'm no fan of Bose products. I'm in agreement with most of the writer's objective and some of his subjective arguments. However, if one is going to invest the time and energy to write nine pages of the "TRUTH", you'd best be advised to have both your grammar usage correct and your facts straight. Otherwise, your arguments, no matter how valid, will lack over-all credibility.