On September 21, 2007 at 14:13, thend said...
After 27 pages of high brow reading, I gotta chime in,
and its a bit long. Yeah, two guys in van blah blah,
I'll chalk it up to bad marketing plan - apparently Bose
has marketing down to a science. I do want to meet these
cats, maybe they'll let me take a speaker apart to see
whats inside. I can't talk about all of the famous white
van models, for the following info am only referring to
MTS(Millenium Theatre Systems)
-The website looks as professional as any other online
store
Is it really that difficult to make a reasonably decent looking website?
-The magazine looks legit, although no longer in prodcution.
Whilst I don't profess to being a member of the criminal classes, one would have thought the art of a good con is to make the victim believe that what they are seeing is truly genuine. What might look legit might not, necessarily, be so.
-They have tech support and warranty plans, gotta be worth
something.
Have you actually checked out what's on offer? It's not exactly awe inspiring.
-An actual review at
[Link: associatedcontent.com]-
He may not be an audophile, but he seems to have a lot
of threads about
random crap.Rather speaks for itself.
-Knee jerk reaction is to be pissed but people seem to
like the systems once they hook them up. MTS could be
legit, and if I get approached, I may offer $20 for a
pair of them. The box must be worth that much. If you
have some speakers, take them apart and tell us whats
inside, what kind of speakers, circuitry. People dont
even say if they 6's or 15's, and thats the basics. We
may find that they are of decent build quality, but we
only seem to have two kinds of people posting in threads
- people that are upset because they feel scammed, and
people who think that people who buy speakers out of vans
are idiots.
I must concede, I'm one of the latter.
While both of you are right, lets figure
out some comparison, are the insides you can get for $30
at MCM or Radio Shack, or are they from a more reputable
manufacturer. Somebody supplied the good, somebody put
them together and somebody knows whats inside. Its audio
gear, lets figure out if its any good.
Why? If such speakers need to be "marketed" in such a wholly unethical way, my conclusion is that they must be of such poor quality they are unable to stand in comparison to legitimate products. They are simply not worth bothering with.
