bobh@teklabs.UUCP (Bob Hubbard) (10/15/85)
As much as I enjoyed Dick Pierce's review, I must dissagree slightly. I owned 901s and thoroughly enjoyed them when playing rock at painful levels and generally showing off for friends in college. Amar Bose performed a service for the hi-fi industry! He raised the level of hype to astronomical heights and exploded any sense of belief in the audio magazines' truthfulness. Before Bose we could only sit around and compare ARs and KLHs and put down JBLs and generally listen to and complain about Angel classical recordings. Now we have TECHNIPHILES! We have the NET! Wheres the fun of listening to music when we can passionately rail at each others physics theories! As an aside, I have my own favorite Bose story. I once had a blind date with a freshly minted Bose sales-person who spent the evening describing the godlike features of Amar (she had TOUCHED him) and swore that if Amar said that 75% distortion was good for us then we should JUST BELIEVE. I really think Bose is now living in Oregon, wearing a beard, and red robes. For the record and seriously, Bose speakers are garbage at a high price.
romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang) (10/17/85)
Maybe I shouldn't say this in the face of such impressive naysayers.
But...
About ten years ago, my family got 901 Series II's. Looking in that
general price range, the salesman thought the best he had were either
the 901's or a double set of the old Advents. The 901's sounded more
transparent to me, though they also revealed the flaws (scratches,
hiss, etc.) in recordings less mercifully than the Advents. (What are
people saying about Advents these days?)
We haven't been to demanding on the 901's; we tend to listen to music
at low or moderate levels, even though we've got an old SX-1010 with
100 watts per channel behind them. Yes, the imaging seems rather
weird, but I notice it mostly in doorways and other weird places in the
room. On the whole, we've been satisfied with them.
I haven't been speaker shopping since then, so I don't know what the
current crop of 901's sound like. My friends certainly aren't buying
them. I do visit friends from time to time; however, I've never
noticed anything that sounded especially good.
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UUCPnet: {allegra,cmcl2,pyramid,topaz}!pyrnj!romainjohn@gcc-bill.ARPA (John Allred) (10/17/85)
In article <3229@teklabs.UUCP> bobh@teklabs.UUCP (Bob Hubbard) writes: > >For the record and seriously, Bose speakers are garbage at a high price. I agree. I once listened to a pair of 901s, properly placed as per the manual, and got the most awful muddy sound. Perhaps this shows my perference toward sharp images (I listen to KEF 103.2 with a subwoofer normally.) -- John Allred General Computer Company uucp: seismo!harvard!gcc-bill!john