Modern DSP application including a steep rolloff for the low octaves could take 901s or most any speaker to the next level. I bet a pair would be more fun for the price (which appears to not reflect much if any inflation) than many of the competition.
Bose 901 Review Well Done.
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I remember a friend bought a pair and back then was under the impression that they were fantastic speakers and didn't know any better. That is until I listened to them. Was NOT impressed in the least so maybe he didn't have them set up right? Some of the other Bose speakers I had heard sounded decent. |
When I was a kid, I would dream about 901's from all the ads in Stereo review. Thru the years I thought about building a vintage 2nd system and finding a pair. One thing, never dismiss vintage components (assume everything is working). People and reviewers back then knew what sounded good too. I went vintage with my speaker cables and found a mint pair of MONSTER M 2.2 series. I love how they fit in with my system. Good cabling is good cabling |
Such a lively thread! My contribution has to do with not “what’s best”, but with what I like and find most interesting- which involves owning a bunch of very different systems, each with very different vintage speakers: -Quad ESL 57’s -Monitor Audio MA2’s -Altec 604’s in 620 cabinets -ADS 801’s -Linn Kan’s -Yamaha NS10’s -Bose 901 series IV with equalizer They all have their “place”. I don’t listen to the Yamahas for fun- they’re great tools for mixing and sound design, as befits their rep. The Quads get the best upstream gear I can afford, and have pride of place in my home living room- solo, couch-based listening at its best. The Monitor Audios are great in my art studio- well-balanced, forgiving, good off-axis in a large live space. Linn Kans are fine for film sound when projecting movies (w. sub). The ADS 810’s are comfy in a social/game playing space in my vacation home for mostly non-critical rock, r&b and jazz listening with family and friends. Finally, and most recently I bought a used pair of 901’s for my new screen porch, positioning them against a solid wall, hooked up an old Creek integrated I had lying around, and finally heard them in all their good, bad and ugly glory. Everything written above is true- except that the EQ is at best optional. No- it’s necessary. Unless you take the eq out of the signal chain as a “special effect” applied to stripped-down dub- the sort of trick-in-the-mix Lee Perry might have come up with . . . And yes, they still sound great heard from an annoyed neighbor’s house across the lake! |
Yeah my first big buy...901s series 2 bought them used for $315 back in 1973 .I ran them with a Sony Str 7065.They were great ,I was just married 21 into Led Zeppelin and they could handle them,no problem. Had a Technics 1300 TT Shure V15 cart and my set up was great .I used them until 1995..had them stored and the speakers rings,all deteriorated..16 speakers are alot to redo...whan I move I thrashed them,sadly to say...I had no room for them in my new place. |
hsbrock Yes, I still have the article in one of my stereo file folders. I was 16 at the time, myself. I did not hear them for another couple years but the article interested me. As stated above, I also have my original receipt from 1976, when I bought my second stereo set up. I have a photo of my first stereo, which I bought right before getting drafted. I had a Pilot 65wpc receiver (considered powerful at the time), Realistic TT and Nova 8 speakers from Radio Shack. It wasn't terrible for a teenage kid and first stereo. Best in the barracks until I went to Germany. |
Russ69 I think the series 3 was the worst. Never hear a good word about them. Series 4 sounded good but foam surrounds went bad fast. Bose did a buyback program and put you into a pair of series 6 for I think $400. I bought a pair of junk 4's just to do the trade. I still have a pair of series I, 2 pair of series 2 and a pair of series 6. My favorites were always the 2's but 6's are pretty good and can sound good with less than 100 wpc as well as handle loads of power. These were the ones that they'd plug into a wall outlet, claiming they could handle 1200 watts. I have not tried this. :) The series 1's and 2's are power hungry and sound best with a minimum of 150wpc. Most who complained about the first two series were driving them with small receivers and they would not sound good at all this way. I had a 90wpc Yamaha integrated amp as a loaner before my Crown gear came in. It was not enough and I did not enjoy them until I got the Crown separates. They came to life with the added power. I find the same thing with my AR9's. I only had one Parasound (HCA2200II) amp when I first got them and ran them with the single 250wpc. They didn't sound bad, they even sounded good but they truly came to life when I added the second Parasound amp and bi-amped them, the way they are designed. I can't imagine using them any other way. Just like I can't imagine listening to Bose 901's with not enough power and or not placed in perfect corners. They will absolutely not sound right if they are not used correctly and supplied with enough power. I first heard them driven by a large McIntosh amp and preamp. The clerk at the store said they had to have the power and he was right. I had a buddy who had DQ10's and he drove them was an Accuphase integrated amp, 110wpc. It sounded pretty good but I said he needed more power. I bought my Crown amp and preamp to his place and he could not believe the difference. He bought a Denon 200wpc amp after that and they came to life. His preamp was a CJ PV2, likely better than my Crown or at least different being tube vs SS. I know a lot of Maggie users have found the same. If they need power, give it to them or you will be very disappointed. |
Hey old ears Yes, I was fortunate to spend a year in Germany. I enjoyed my time there even though I was homesick and missed my fiance. She did come over after a few months and we got married in Darmstadt. We are about to celebrate our 50th anniversary. Lots of the guys had stereo gear from the RM store. Those big PX's were amazing. A lot of RTR decks, one guy had a quad set up with 2 pair of Bose 501's. It was OK, I wasn't a huge fan of the 501's. He had the biggest quad receiver you could get, can't remember but seems like maybe a Sansui, again, no big deal but the system sounded OK and certainly better than some. I spent my free cash on the camera and lenses. When I got out in Oct 75, went to work and took out a loan to buy a stereo system. Pioneer PL12D turntable, Shure V15III cartridge, Crown IC150 preamp, Crown DC300A amp and a pair of series two Bose 901's. It was around $1600. I still have the original receipt. The banker thought I was nuts but he had no reason to say no to the loan. My son still has the old Crown gear (needs repairs) and my nephew is still using the old Pioneer TT. I recently bought another V15III and it cost twice as much today, used, as it did new in 1976. Lots of people still using them today.
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@billpete Thank you. You still have Julian Hirsch's review of the 901s from (I think it was) August of 1968? I admired his style as I read his reviews month after month. I was just a 15-year old kid, but I have wondered all these years about how to achieve some real high fidelity while also achieving the "no sweet spot required" sound of a concert hall or live rock concert because to me, that is one of the biggest problems of conventional systems. (there are preferential seats in a concert hall, but relatively, there is much larger area that's sweet.) To me, loudspeakers should be sold with a warning label disclosure: "Caution. These speakers do not function well except in a very small spot within a room." Not the frequencies, not stereo sound. But audiophiles, who ordinarily would not accept such glaring deficiencies in a system, seem to accept this problem as a given. As I was thinking on this the other day something occurred to me and maybe I'll have to try it. Anyway, I may not comment often, but I enjoy the dialogue here. |
Hey billpete, Lucky you, being stationed in Germany. I flew C-130's out of Langley and only got to "rotate" for 2 months out of Mildenhall, 3 times...mostly one nighters all over Europe. Was lucky to get to the AV club. Miss those days! AR turntable, Revox dolby B, and Pentax Spotmatic from there too. |
This peaked my interest because I noticed a pair of Bose 901s lurking behind Steve Martin, Marty Short and Selina Gomez on the set of SM’s supposed NY apartment in the latest series of “Only Murders in the Building”. I wondered if this was part of Steve Martin’s sense of humor for his nerdy character to be proudly displaying 50 year old speakers. Who knew they are still in production? A friend’s dad had a pair when I was in high school, and I was never all that impressed. The dad was a doctor that was into nice things so he was probably driving them with a Tandberg receiver or something like that. It was probably related to set up, or at the time I just didn’t “get” the sound. On the other hand, the system I took to college consisted of an AR turntable, Kenwood KA3500 and Bose 301 speakers. It sounded good enough that when playing some acoustic guitar music with my dorm room door open once, someone came down the hall to see who was playing. kn |
In 1974 I lived in an apartment building in Somerville, MA. This was long before it became gentrified and housed artists and hipsters. My next door neighbor was an architectural photographer, a few years older than me.* I learned a lot from Bob. He had a pair of whatever the big Bose speakers were at that time (901s?). I was young and 100% ignorant about audio, but had loved music my whole life. He knew I liked classical but wasn’t in touch with 20th century modernism. So one day he put the Bartok Violin concerto on those Bose speakers and proceeded to utterly blow my mind. I’ve been a huge of fan of Bartok and modernism ever since. I thought those must be the best speakers in the world. 10 years later when I was putting together my own high end system, I was kind of surprised to learn that Bose speakers were detested by many in the high end. It wasn’t the last time I was surprised by the intersection of music, audio technology, and social perception. *Bob moved to Hollywood to pursue work in film making. He probably started out as an assistant cinematographer or something like that (he was a superb photographer with his big 4" x 5" view camera), then later became a director. Among the films he directed is the cult classic, HITCHER; and a bunch of very entertaining JESSE STONE films starring Tom Selleck. Most recently he directed 23 episodes of BLUE BLOODS for TV. A very talented man. |
It's a fair review of a classic 70's speaker. For those that look down their nose at the Bose (see what I did there), HiFi is about what makes you happy, and since speakers in particular are very personal in terms of expectations, 901s had (I believe) 4 iterations and every one sold well. So they did something right. Heck, I still have fond memories of a pair of Sansui speakers (LM 330's?) I bought in high school along with a Marantz 2235B receiver. |
Hey old_ears I visited the RM Audio/photo club in 1974/75 when I was stationed in Darmstadt at Ernst Ludwig Kaserne. Bought my Nikkormat camera there, heard 901's and the Linear Design Lab copies. LDL went out of business when Bose sued them. They were pretty much a direct copy of the 901. I didn't get my 901's until I got out in fall of 75. Bought them and Crown DC300A in early 1976. Many loud parties for many years. I had buddies with the planars, also DQ10.s. All had their attributes. |
I really like the review and agree mostly with it. I've posted my Bose story here before but here's a quick recap: I bought a pair of Bose 901 II's and a Bose 500W amp from the Rhein-Main Audio/Photo Club in May 1973 for $1176.00...I still have them. Pink Floyd DSOTM tour came to the Hampton Roads Coliseum that spring. Most impressive concert to this day. The Bose at home in a carpeted, mostly bare,12x20 living room at clipping levels (amp LEDs) came very close to recreating the concert sound (minus rear channels) when the album was released shortly after. One of my roomies had some L100's that were clipping way before the amp and 901's. Walls of sound! In Mar 1990 I had the amp repaired for the first time with the right channel out (diode and resistor, loose solder on a transistor). That fall it failed again, this time taking out all speakers on the right channel too. Auditioned several dealer setups...Wilson Audio, B&W 801, 705, Apogee, Magnepan, Vandersteen...most way beyond budget! The Mag had a similar larger than life sound stage as the 901's, more detail, less bass. I bought the Vandy 2ci and they remain the front mains today. Bose 201 II's for surrounds and the remaining 901 as rear surround. It's too far to run the equalizer cabling so I tune it with my Pioneer SC LX801 DSP...works well as an "extended speaker" also, to give the house open floor plan full sound. Reference stereo system today is a standalone Susvara setup.
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I am among the few that think the 901 is a very good speaker for the right room and electronics. My introduction to King Crimson was Lark's Tongues in Aspic through a very good setup cranked up very loud. I was completely unaware what lay in store for the first track. With sufficient room and with proper walls and spacing, they are still excellent for medium to loud volumes. For moderate to low volume listening, I prefer other speakers. Bose made some excellent, groundbreaking designs. Other manufacturers since caught on and have been re-defining what we consider good designs, but Bose deserves its spot in the pantheon of engineering excellence. |
Apparently, they are re-releasing the 901's, they look so good! Grew up in Boston, Bose speakers were everywhere. As a kid, the 901's were amazing. But at that time, all I cared about was loud, party speakers were my main speakers. In fact had speaker from floor to ceiling in my bedroom, that would only be played at concert volume. Still think they look cool, have been thinking about getting a used pair, as they show up on Craigslist all the time for $400-800 |
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. |
I am curious if anyone remembers the 901 demos back in "the day." One very impressive demo to prove the durability of 901s was to take pure AC right from the wall outlet to the inputs of the 901s. Flip the switch and "BRRRRRRR" for a half a second. Then, the sales rep would exclaim: "270 watts!!" We've heard the "popular" comments from the competitors: "No highs, no lows ...". Here's another, when prompted: "They sound great. As long as you don't try to play music through them." Quick 901 story: We have a second home on a lake. Across the cove, about 50 years away is a nice(r) home with the beautiful boat house. My neighbor (we'll call him "Tim") knows he has the most expensive and elegant home in the cove -- and, the most awesome stereo. "Tim" often blurs the definition of a "subdivision" and inserts "resort" and "party central" into the classification. "Tim's" stereo is made up of a big boy Pioneer SX1280, and 901s. So far, so good. Except .... the Bose 901s are hanging in the corners with the faces pointed towards "Tim" and his guests. In theory, this seems viable. In reality, not so much. The 901s hang UNDER the soffits of the boathouse. So, when it's party time at the "Tim Resort" he cranks up the music loud enough to satisfy his "louder ... LOUDER" guests, totally numb to the fact that 89% of the sound is being "shared" with the rest of us. Anyone who has spent time on a lake knows how sound reflective water is. This is the ultimate execution of Bose Noise-Cancelling principle. It cancels ALL sounds in my vicinity and replaces them with "Tim's" playlist for the evening. This would be somewhat tolerable if I were a strong advocate of "Tim's" choice of music genre. I'd scratch my fingernails on a chalkboard, but no one would hear.
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Once upon a theme.... Being young and mobile in terms of where I was living shifted like it could, there was only one space I really got to place them properly on the long wall...and stomp the accelerator Down; volume to max in a space 14 x 24 x 8. All feet, and all subject to the mind set of the '70's.... Not a lot you could do that would piss or freak the neighbors....'damn college kids from CSU Humboldt'....short of a late-night punctuation with a slide shotgun, which we did have the sense NOT to do.... Marantz 2270 with the eq in the tape loop, 12 g. speaker lines, 'decent' for the era IC...AR TT with a Stanton 681EE cart... I don't remember What I was playing, but my landlady ( a young woman who lived inn the small house behind 'ours' (2 housemates, not present at the time) walked in..... Now, Vikki was our ages at the time and not given to just cruising in without the knock...which she correctly figured wouldn't have been heard, anyway. But she had an observation of the moment to share.... "I know you don't know this....but before I left my house, walked pass and to the mailboxes and back (ea. way +/- 50+ yards) to your door... The panel lights on the 2270 dimmed with the bass line.... YES, 901s' at the time could handle power...a sales dude once told me 'we threw a kilowatt a side at a pair once...they acted like it wanted More.' Yup, not SOTA, then or now. They need to be experienced, like Jimmy said...
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last time I heard them was in 1985 at a club in San Antonio. I remember they were playing The Honeydrippers album, it sounded mellow with a tizzy edge, the imaging was amorphous, the bass extension decent, but the overall sound was intriguing at the least. I would have loved to have put on some of my own test tunes to evaluate them more properly. I've never lived in any construction that had the proper dimensions or wall material for them to sound their best. |
In 1976 I had just moved to a new place. My new buddy upstairs had a pair of 901's. I was running a Dynaco SCA-80 I had built into a pair of the omni-popular Dynaco A-25's so I was eager to listen to these hyped-up speakers. On site, I couldn't figure what the big deal was. They were supposed to send sound all over the place and I had to hold my tongue about what I heard. Imagine, now, I was a neophyte. He and I took a trip then down to a hi-fi joint in Jacksonville. The were running a pair of Dahlquist DQ-10's they had mounted up in the corners of the ceiling. That was the end of the story for me, finis. They were playing "Dreamboat Annie". After my next move, the DQ-10's were in my house along with a Threshold 400A. Congrats to Bose for still being able to make those things. Why, I don't know. |
Dr. Amar Bose introduced his new Bose company and premiered his sole product, the 901s, in mid-May 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, just a couple of weeks before RFK was shot and killed at that same hotel. It was at the large, national annual Hi-Fi show, with exhibitor booths in the large hall and in dedicated hotel rooms rented out to exhibitors. Dr. Bose had a room to showcase and introduce his 901s. Julian Hirsch was there, and as he did monthly, he would write his review which appeared a couple of months later in the HiFi Stereo Review magazine - the classic magazine of that era, and his review is still a classic. Not far from the Ambassador, on Olympic Blvd. between Vermont and Western, was International TV which had a large listening room with walls of dozens of amplifiers, receivers, and loudspeaker systems, all the biggies of those days, Fisher, Kenwood, Marantz, JBL, Altec, AR, etc. They had it wired so any turntable, receiver, amp, tuner or loudspeaker pair could be A/B compared with the flip of a switch. I would spend many hours in that room listening. I had just turned 15, but I was also at the Ambassador. I sat and stood in that room for 6-7 hours, listening to the original Bose 901s. I moved around and then stood still while the "men" came and went, adjusted what was playing and while I listened in on their comments and talk, making observations with one another, then checking my own listening to theirs. I considered the "point source" issue that, regrettably, requires someone sit in a specific listening spot to "get" the ideal sound--something I never experienced at concerts or live venues. (Those were the days of Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, Paul Revere and the Raiders, occasionally the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl. ABC Studios where they played and taped in the afternoons to a live audience was 1/2 mile from my junior high school.) I was astonished at something I never got when I was comparing other sound systems, not even my beloved JBLs could match. (In those days, JBL was headquartered in the Atwater neighborhood about 1 1/2 miles from where I lived, before they moved to Northridge.) None of the conventional systems were possible of producing clearly audible stereo separation when I was standing directly in front of, and close to, either the right or left speaker. You simply could not distinguish, hear, one channel if you were standing directly in front of the opposite channel. With the 901s I was astonished to not only hear it, but equally loudly and clearly. The sound was tight, it was definitive, dynamic, and it was all encompassing. It was all there. There was no need for a sweet spot; indeed, requiring a "sweet spot" ever after became, for me, a definition of an inferior system, for what good is a system to be enjoyed alone? Or where you can't wander about a room without offending the system? As to the "lacks bass," well, that may be said about the bottom octave from 20-40Hz, but not above. As to the highs, I cannot recall any deficits. The memory of those days caused such a impact that I have never forgotten the experience. I was a kid, but I sensed there was something going on at the time, something that I had no clue what would become. As a subscriber to the HiFi Stereo Review, I devoured Julian Hirsch's review, clipped it, and saved it. Since those days I have subscribed to open baffle design, but those only project 50/50 rear/forward (not Bose's formula 8/1), and have neither the dispersion to fill the voids to the sides of the drivers nor the power offset to do so, and so do not create the spacious concert hall sound or live concert sound as the 901s. In the late 1970s I built similar cabinets and used two 8" drivers in the rears, but as a college student didn't have the budget to get the drivers needed, and while that would have projected 2/3rds to the rear and addressed dispersion, there are impedance issues that affect the power distribution. I've considered inserting a balance control to direct more power to rear drivers, while also directing more to the front if I wanted point-source, but never spent time to figure it out. I have considered using the legendary JBL LE-8 drivers that are flat to 20k, but haven't gotten around to doing so. That would put three 8" drivers on each R-L side, and move a lot more air, or six 8" total. You just can't fool Mother Nature's physics to move enough air for satisfactory bass. To me, the Bose 901s are a continuing enigma. Surely there are better drivers today, better crossovers, equalizers, etc. than then. The Review above is a fair review and very well done. My only comment might be that, in fact, instead of playing down the 901s with a "what do you expect for $1,400?"-type attitude, I would suggest that they may outperform many systems for multiples of their price. The sound, when they are set-up right, wasn't anything to mock. Not because they didn't check all the boxes of the purists, but because, in my opinion, the boxes that too many purists set-up to check miss the mark and miss the musicality of the sensory experience. My two-cents worth, IMHO anyway.
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Backwards Listening "A number of Bose enthusiasts enjoy listening to 901s “in reverse,” allowing the eight drivers mounted on the rear of the cabinet to face the listening position. My spirit of investigation encouraged this tact, but it was not my favorite position. There’s slightly more HF extension, but the big, expansive soundfield that makes the speaker so enticing simply disappears." I bought the second pair I've owned about 15 years ago fresh from a factory rebuild under warranty, 901VI. They are used in my four bay 1000' garage as background to my many projects. They will flat out rock and they get slammed at least once a week. Yes I play them backwards and yes they are driven by SS ARC amp and tubed ARC LS-15 feed by a Blusound Node or if necessary by a (wince!) Panasonic 100 cd carousel. They sound amazing in a space that is all concrete, way better than they should. No, they don't come close in any respect to the main rig. But and its a big BUT they sound better than some other main rigs I've heard throughout the years. I am gracious...realizing how much emotion many of us have tied up in our rigs so I remain silent. Regards, barts
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Salesmen that didn’t carry the brand would recite ’no highs, no lows, gotta be Bose’. Anyone that ever heard them set up decently knew better and it says more about the person labelling them than it says about the speaker.
The 901 VI driven by an old Realistic STA 235b receiver was the last system I owned that I completely enjoyed! Like a car or truck system after the upgrade, I’m not analyzing the sound because I’m too busy enjoying it. That’s what the 901 is. |
I own a pair of Lifestyle 901s, these are basically series VI speakers with the amp and equalizer built into the base of one of the speakers. They are very rare piano black and mine are in minty condition bought new in 1999. They sound very good for some kinds of music if they are properly set up. They require a solid, clear wall, meaning no obstructions. I prefer 16" distance to the back wall and 3' or more to side walls. They sound similar to sitting in the back of a large hall. This works for orchestral pieces, particularly classical, but don't expect to be able to locate a soloist. If you like the intimacy of a jazz quartet and are not worried that you can't locate the individual performers, 901s sound fine. They are tone accurate. So the alto can be differentiated from the tenor, for example. If you listen closely you may even be able to hear the difference between the Steinway on the right from the Bosendorfer on the left. But the difference between the Steinway B and the Steinway D? No. Oh, the the pianos will sound big, BIG, wide as the room big. Everything sounds big. If you like your Ella to sound 10' wide these are the speakers for you. Those who claim Bose 901s have no bass must have been listening to ones being played without the equalizer in the circuit. Minus 3 db at 34 Hz is the measured fact. The nine 4" drivers on each side have roughly the equivalent cone area of one 12" driver. In summation, Bose 901 speakers are good sounding speakers, in many ways spectacular ones, circa 1970. They fill the room with pleasant sound. Wanna have a party? They are difficult to set up correctly, however, and they cannot be considered serious audiophile speakers in 2025. |
A very entertaining, well-written article. Just another reminder why I chose a career path as a hifi peddler and speaker nerd, rather than a wordsmith. I am working on an article (to be released shortly?) in defense of 901s from the unique perspective of one who has turned the speakers (and EQ) inside out and performed some significant performance mods. I also want to get "real" and disclose that there is just so much you can do with "mid-fi" 4 1/2" drivers slinging 89% of the signal off (untreated) back/sidewalls. The Bose 901 design is the polar opposite of my patented design. That being said, "getting things out of the way that make them sound worse" did reveal some nuance, delicacy, and focus that compelled me to strap myself onto the listening chair for an extended period of time and genuinely enjoy the experience. The new Bose/Mac relationship got my wheels turning. How about a set of $45k Mac901s with 9 x 50 watts of onboard active amplification, DSP, and audiophile-grade full range (up to 20 kHz) drivers? Optional pedestals? Of course. This time with amplified compact subs/passives with useable output below 20 Hz. I’d trade of couple of cars I don’t drive very much these days for a set. |
In high school I could not afford them so we built what we called 1801s. We doubled the size. My friends brother was a MIT graduate so he figured out the size of the speaker, internal volume, etc. and they worked really well. We used an 18 band EQ with them. They were pretty amazing for the price we built them for. I wonder where they are today? Happy Listening. |
Every speaker I have ever heard brought something unique to the show. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. Sometimes wow! But they all let you hear the music from a different perspective. That being said, my experience with the 901’s was in the barracks in Germany when one of my buddies had to have them (because of the hype) and my experience was not good because he had no clue how to set them up properly and if he did there was no way to do it in a dorm room! I always wondered what they would’ve sounded like if they were properly set up. I did find the EQ colored the sound but that was expected but you can color the sound with a paint choice. I’m sure that would be the case with something that mostly bounces the sound off of the walls. I’ll bet if you set them up properly they would sound cool in their own right. They most likely would be a novelty item for me but fun to play around with nonetheless! Most importantly, ETM! Cheers |
@sls883 , I remember back in the early '80s when I was in the Air Force I had a buddy who had a pair matched up with some big Japanese amp and we all thought the same thing. These crank and they are great! When he had outdoor parties at his place, he would move his system outside, and I do remember that his system would broadcast! |
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