Does Bose know that they are hated?

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They are laughing all the way to the bank.

Indeed. The objective for most businesses is making money, not satisfying critics. I would venture to say that most Bose customers are quite pleased with their products. Bill Gates is a zillionaire because he markets the most popular OS, not the best or highest performing one.

Can you name any cable manufacturers which give complete specificatons for their products.

Interesting question. Here are specifications from two manufacturers with which I have experience. Is anything missing?

Nordost Valhalla speaker wire:

Insulation: High purity class 1 extruded FEP
Conductors: x 40 optimized diameter in Micro Mono-Filament construction
Material: 78 microns of extruded silver over 99.999999% OFC
Capacitance: 11.8pF/ft
Inductance: 9.6uH/ft
DC Resistance:
2.6ohms/1000ft (304M)
Speed: 96% speed of light
Dimensions: 2 1/8 inches or 5.5cm wide and 0.039 inches or 0.1mm thick

JPS Labs Superconductor Interconnect:

Capacitance per 0.5 meter - .00000000004 Farad
Inductance per 0.5 meter - .0000001 Henry
Resistance per 0.5 meter - .005 Ohms
(total of both conductors)
Cable diameter - .45/11 in/mm
Maximum usable frequency - 1.0 Gigahertz

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