Dr. Bose

I first met Dr. Bose in a dorm room at Brown my freshman year. Needless to say, it was through one of his stereos, a KLH system with those newfangled smaller "bookshelf" speakers. It sounded great.

Turns out, the speakers housed 3 little 3" speakers each. 3" speakers. You had to be joking. But it was pounding out the music. I'm a freaking engineer. I know for "pounding" bass, you have to move a lot of air, hence the 10" woofers in Command Central here that you can SEE move air.

What alchemy was this? Turns out it was the good doctor realizing that if you let one little guy be responsible for the high frequencies, the other little guys can get together and make like they are way bigger - and sound super. And they did.

Many years later, the good doctor is still at it - my battery-operated Bose portable, all 10"x2"x6" of it, is sitting in my back yard thrilling me with Jimi Hendrix's wall of sound.

I no longer care how he does this - I'm just happy he does. Jimi would be too.