Phil,

lol. You are so funny! lol.

Lovings!
Pat Ferguson Still laughing


At 10:30 PM 12/17/04, you wrote:
>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.