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Bo's has always been known as a secretive company but in recent years it's loosened up a bit particularly after the death of its inspirational founder and longtime MIT professor dr. amar Bose in 2013 CNET recently visited its headquarters and got an unprecedented peek under the hood you're probably familiar with Henry Ford who said you know if I asked people what they wanted back in the late 1800s they would have said a faster horse he saw that the problem and the need but he had the vision to see the technology that could be a much faster horse and one of the benefits of studying technology and being on the cutting edge is you can envision what might be we met with some of boses top engineers most of whom have been with the company for over 25 years and sometimes longer this particular room is an anechoic chamber a huge number of different measurements are made in here when basically what you want to know is what's coming out of or off of the loudspeaker boses engineers developed a unique solution for making sure that nothing in one of its audio test rooms was ever moved and always remained a constant it turned the room on its side you also notice that all the walls are unparalleled and that's the same thing that's going on in the other rooms it's to try to remove anomalies that are true for typical rooms and make a room that breaks up natural standing waves in a way that creates more of an average those had never shown as design insurance engineering labs to the press the director of those labs led us through several testing areas this is a reliability test chamber here we make the product failed we make sure that we understand why it failed and if it's a weak spot we can improve it this is called cargo bounce test so we have a rain test fixture does a very calibrated amount of rain interestingly some of the products are designed with little water channels in them in case people leave them outside this is kind of like being close to the seaside if I open it you get a little bit of the fog that comes out this is a different one for steal this one cycles between hot and dry and the same kind of salt fog this is the exact weight of an iPhone so it simulates your pulling out your iPhone you drop it and it puts tension on the cable here our goal is to make products that people love and you saw lots of people today sweating the details to make sure these products are reliable that they have the best performance and that the industrial designs are relevant