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20060903 Sunday September 03, 2006

Bose Headphones - down but not out

I love my Bose headphones. They work great in-flight. Unfortunately, they cracked ... again. Ugh.

I happened to be at Fashion Island the other day and stopped by the Bose store. Turns out Bose has had a bad batch of headphones. The sales person said to call the 1-800 support number (since they were out of warranty) and they would be exchanged. Sure enough, due to an issue with "weak plastic", some Bose headphones are exchanged with the only cost being that of sending it in. Note, mine cracked at the swivel joint on *both earphones*.  Superglue fixed one side, but the other would have taken a professional welder to fix. I thought it was a design flaw as opposed to weak plastic until I noticed yet another crack in a non-joint area.

FYI, while I was at the store had the opportunity to put on the Quite Comfort 3. Wow. Unfortunately, they wouldn't let me upgrade :)

I sent the headphones in last week and am eagerly awaiting the replacement pair.


(2006-09-03 21:46:52.0) Permalink Comments [3]

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eBay were replacement pair and buy the new ones...

Posted by Scott Jolly on September 06, 2006 at 05:02 PM PDT #

Hmmm. Not a bad idea. Oooorrr, I can do what that guy did with the paperclip. Trade up and eventually get to a house within a year.

If my calculations are correct, and I start with the Bose headphones instead of a paperclip, I should be able to buy a small country within a year.

Posted by John Clingan on September 06, 2006 at 05:16 PM PDT #

You are a great man for helping me solve a problem that I thought was impossible; how to deal with the dim of multiple dual Opteron 1U rack servers. I have sitting in front of me two servers and I am typing this at the console of one of them. They are bloody loud and my hearing is just fried. Thanks to years around explosives in the army I have a permanent ringing in my left ear and reduced hearing in general. This means I turn music up fairly loud. Somehow even classic Boomtown Rats ( The Fine Art of Surfacing ) does not sound right with servers screaming at me. I was just looking at these babies : http://www.bose.com/images/home_entertainment/products/p_qc3_l.jpg Not cheap at all. Then again, these are BOSE and just like the "Sun" logo that means a lot. If these babies work in a plane then I think they should become standard equipment for sysadmins in server rooms. As a man that once played classical its a terrible thing to lose chunks of the audio spectrum. Beethoven's Ninth just isn't all there for me anymore. These servers here just make matters nearly unbearable and after eight or ten hours I'm ready to crawl out of my skin. Thanks for the product tip. and to think that there are people out there that say blogging a product, a good product, has no effect. pffftt Dennis

Posted by Dennis Clarke on September 08, 2006 at 09:04 PM PDT #

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