I am sure Herbie got a nice ckeck. It always has struck me, even when I was a teen-ager and that was about thirty years ago, that it was thought to be a good idea to market "high fidelity" sound over television. Certainly any demos that Herbie did to show the difference between typical sound systems and the vaunted BOSE system would be limited by the sound quality of the television medium, which by definition, should be inferior to the Bose system. That would certainly invalidate any comparisons they do on TV. I guess most people just aren't as suspicious as I would be, audiophile or not.
Bose Infomercial
I was up late last night and this infomercial for the Bose Music Wave came on. The "host" was Herbie Hancock. Interesting I watched it for about 1/2 hour - got tired of the same testimonials. May be the best thing on the box. Now I don't mean to disparage lifestyle systems too much and I can see their appeal (no wires, portability) but this was some very slick advertising for what I thought was just a ghetto blaster. It really highlighted the difference between the people that visit this site and the rest of the world. Evantually I had to put on my headphones just to reassure myself that all the components and wires are worth it. Highly recommend you give it a watch. I wonder how much Herbie got paid.