Re: Why indeed...
"Bose" stands for "Buy Other Sound Equipment". Dr Bose produced one reasonably good product in the early 70s (the 701 speaker) and then sold the company. They've just turned out cheap crap ever since and charged exorbitant prices for it based on the brand name.
The Sonos stuff just sounds like any other cheap and nasty reproduction system, but is overpriced by a factor of ten or twelve. It's truly nasty rubbish.
B&O was always grossly overpriced (and I designed some of their 70s and 80s products). They were all made down to a price, with moulded plastic speaker cabinets with wood veneer glued on to make them look "expensive". They mostly used slider pots, since that was their "style" and they invariably began to crackle - even inside the warranty period. The component costs were cut as far as they could be and retain some measure of functionality, then the retail prices were massively marked up to fleece the gullible. Dreadful crap.
"Faszination" needs to admit that he's been taken for an expensive ride! Idiot!