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ART & DESIGN
AMAR G. BOSE
THE MASTER OF SOUND
B ose, founded in 1964, is the
company that people look to for
good quality sound. In the home
and on the road, from large outdoor arenas to
intimate neighborhood stores, restaurants and
clubs, you can hear the realism of the most
respected name in sound. Amar G. Bose’s
concept was developed after he bought a high-
end stereo speaker system in 1956 and was
disappointed to find that the speakers failed to
reproduce the realism of a live performance.
His extensive speaker technology research on
acoustics led him to invent a stereo loudspeaker
that would reproduce, in a domestic setting,
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In a 2004 interview in Popular Science
magazine, Bose said: “I would have been fired a
hundred times at a company run by MBAs. But
I never went into business to make money. I
went into business so that I could do interesting
things that hadn’t been done before.”
Despite his denial of a tangible business
talent, the Framingham, Massachusetts-based
company reported sales of 2.97 billion in 2014.
The master of sound, Amar G. Bose, changed
the listening world and left us his legacy of
quality sound when he passed away in 2013 at
the age of 83. May he rest in symphonic peace.
the dominantly reflected sound field that
characterizes the listening space of the audience
in a concert hall. His focus on psychoacoustics
later became a hallmark of his company’s audio
products.
Today, Bose iPod docks, surround-sound home
entertainment speaker systems and noise-
canceling headphones dominate the market;
its loudspeakers are used in the Sistine Chapel
and several Olympic stadiums, and Bose also
has contracts with the military and NASA.