Phil you are too funny.  You'd think you were the newly wed instead of Todd
and I lol


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:30 PM
Subject: My Christmas Present Revealed


> Well, Since Brad tried playing the fourth personage of the Trinity with
> his
> conviction bit about keeping secrets from the family and all, for Pete
> sake.
> You'd think he was preaching a Sunday sermon or something trying to make
> me
> feel guilty and all.  The next thing you know, Brad will be taking up
> offerings so he can buy a bigger boat.  Below is the review old brother
> John
> was talking about which he read on another list.
>
> I was able to begin using my Christmas present early for one
> simple reason.  I was home when Federal Express delivered it and
> my wife was gone.  I knew what it was, or was pretty certain I
> knew, and so I opened it while she was gone and began using it.
> No.  She wasn't happy.  It was my Christmas present anyway so
> what's the beef?  What was it, you ask?  It was a set of Bose
> headphones you have heard advertised so I thought I would report
> on these 300 dollar headphones just in case you were thinking
> about getting them for Christmas.  Are they worth it, is the first
> question you are asking.  Of course not.  Nothing Bose sells is
> worth what they charge for it and we own one Bose small radio and
> that big thousand dollar hummer called the Bose Acoustic Wave
> Radio.  Yes, they all sound wonderful.  Yes, I have compared them
> to other systems I have and I do believe they sound better.  No, I
> don't believe they are worth nearly what they ask for them and the
> same goes for the noise canceling headphones.  However, you put
> these headphones on as a blind person, and it drives you crazy
> until you turn some music or sound on.  Why?  Because, you can't
> hardly hear a thing with them on.  The pads are as soft as, well,
> I won't say it, but they are soft.  Mind you, they aren't as good
> as sex but few things are.  Come to think of it, nothing is but I
> digress.  This also depends highly on your age, of course, but
> again I digress.  No, there is only one tiny, little, itty bitty
> switch on the wire which plugs into the headset.  This switch is
> used for double the volume based upon the type of output you are
> plugged into.  It comes with a very fancy, zippered, sturdy,
> carrying case but I have never carried headphones in a carrying
> case in my entire life.  It is a fancy carrying case, however, and
> you can store the cables inside the zipper case, too.  It comes
> complete with extra adapters for various jack sizes and an extra
> extension cable incase you want to sit 400 feet away from the
> sound source to which you are plugged into.  I hate wires.  I also
> got the free, if you want to call it that, little battery powered
> CD player and I like it quite a lot.  It uses two double A
> batteries.  The headset, by the way, runs on a single double A
> battery.  Yes, all batteries are included.  For 300 dollars, I
> should hope so.  The CD player is very user friendly for the blind
> user, that is, and you can select mixed songs, that is, at random,
> repeat the same song, no skip mode, very handy of course with a
> portable CD player, and start over again automatically.  There's
> one other menu setting but I forget what that is right now.  you
> can also pick nothing.  Less than correct grammar but those are
> the choices.  No, unfortunately, for your 300 dollars, you don't
> get a stupid carrying case for the portable CD player.  Beats me
> as to why.  Are they better than the forty dollar models of
> headphones at Radio Shack?  Well, yes, I think so.  The plus here,
> of course, is the noise canceling feature which is built in.  No,
> you cannot control the noise canceling feature, unless, of course,
> I have somehow overlooked something.  If you own the CC Radio Plus
> from C Crane, the jack for the headphones on FM is in stereo.
> That's nice so the Bose headphones sound very nice with the CC
> Radio Plus.  Keep in mind, absolutely nothing that Bose makes is
> fancy with lots of bells and whistles.  this is, I have been told,
> for the benefit of the elderly, a category I am rapidly fitting
> into, so they don't have to get things to confused for the
> decrepid users.  Come to think of it, I do fall into that category
> right now.  It all sounds good, of course, but for the price you
> pay, it should sound good.  Would I call these headphones
> professional?  I think so, but that is largely based upon the
> price.  I am dead serious when I say that it drives you crazy to
> wear the headphones without any music turned on.  I can hardly
> hear my own talking watch speak unless I hold it up to my ear.
> With music or sound playing, I cannot hear anything but what I'm
> listening to.  My grand son came out the other day and had to tap
> me on the knee because I flat out could not hear his voice.  Oh,
> yes, they are super comfortable to wear.  If you buy these extra
> expensive headphones, however, and are expecting all sorts of nice
> do dads, like individual volume controls, base and treble
> controls, levers and switches and buttons, and a fifteen button
> equalizer you can diddle around with, forget buying the headphones
> from Bose.  If you like music, and if you want super quiet luxury,
> and if you want to brag to your friends that you own a 300 dollar
> pair of headphones, then I recommend you buy them.  If you don't
> feel the necessity of bragging to your friends, spend the 300
> dollars on a bottle of Viagra instead.  One final word of advice.
> Don't leave the headphones any place where your dog can get to
> them in order to chew them up.
>
> Phil.
>