They came out just as my HiFi journey began, in 1968. I was initiated in the AR/KLH/Dynaco sector of the audiosphere, and went to the Grand Central listening room to hear the 32Hz organ pipe (overtones) of Also Sprach Zarathustra played in a room far too small to support such a wavelength. Later, I heard a pair of Series IIs reproduce a live recording of the West Point marching band through a pair of MC-2300s, and THAT sure was cool. But as I learned more about audio I came to dismiss them as High Fidelity…especially after the Series III were introduced. Truthfully, I haven’t tried any of them in a long while. I credit Bose with several positive contributions to the audio field…popularizing the concept of subwoofers, noise cancelling headphone technology, and the Lifestyle Jewel Cube w/AdaptIQ. But his genius was always the marketing of a fundamentally fraudulent notion, using the prestige of his MIT position to make bank. Not a fan of that.
Bose 901 Review Well Done.