The best speaker you ever heard?

Zu Definition 1.5. No crossover between 40 HZ and 12Khz provides impeccable phase coherence where it matters. Speaker is solid and implacable to 16 Hz because of 4 ten inch powered woofers per speaker. This may sound gimmicky to you but I assure that it is the result of original, substantial and considered engineering. Add in a nearly resistive 6 ohm load and 101 db efficiency and you are approaching the ideal. Check em out.

You would all be well served by heeding the words of the prophet Rumadian.

Sometime in the mid 1990s I met with John Dunlavy at his factory in Colorado Springs. To the best of my knowledge, they were never located in Utah.

Bose? Come on- the concept is absurd. The results are poor.

Considering the fact that you keep introducing the same product to this thread over and over again, you set off the shrill shill alarm. Even if Bose made a credible product, your incessant push would serve to discredit them just as it has already discredited you. The 901 is not even a good speaker much less a candidate for "best" anything. Give it up.

If you like Bose 901 speakers, that's fine for you but many of us are far too experienced to accept such jibberish.

I was a very successful Bose salesman in the 1970s. The product was flying out the door and the jibberish was being swallowed by the bucket.

Personal circumstances interrupted my fantasy and, once I heard well-designed speakers objectively, the Bose fantasy was permanently discredited. The 901 is garbage and you sound like a shill.

I looked at the wall behind me while I was typing this in the hope that you might finally get the message. Bose has no interest in making good speakers. They just want to make speakers that sell good. Sorry Charlie!!

Obsessalot - Your name sounds very familiar. Weren't you one of Arthur's Knights of the Sound Table?

The trap in this hobby lies in obsessing about what you might be missing. This can lead you to do stupid things that you regret (there are threads here devoted to that topic). Focus on what you do have and just enjoy it. Many people have better systems than you do or I do or doo doo. It's all relative.

Can you identify any shortcomings in your present system? If not then forget about equipment and play with the room a bit. And buy more music. Or learn to play an instrument. Or seduce your wife. Join the gym.
Find another way to stay busy. Otherwise, you will get sucked in and before you know it you will be as broke and weird as we are.

Anybody dumb enough to buy 901s is a solid candidate for an endless succession of new and improved versions of the same dreck. Same goes for many revered brands. Much taffy is distributed in the name of sonic purity and solid value.

Hifisoundguy is clearly a shill and he seems to be getting rather defiant. Check his posts - all Bose all the time.

The Bose 901 is a failed concept. Hifisoundguy cannot change that with his incessant intrusions. The speaker is a "line disarray" which succeeded well in print before most of us knew anything. As we learned more about speaker designs, the absurdity of the Bose 901 assertions became apparent.

The responses you have received in this thread and many others should make it clear to you that most of us are not interested in your ploy.

If you are not a shill, you are plainly misinformed about where the Bose 901 belongs in the audio hierarchy. Nine table radio speakers in a disarray contorted by a deep smiley graphic EQ has only so much potential. And that potential maxed out back in the 1970s.

It doesn't seem to matter what the topic is as long as you can find some way to intrude upon it with your uninformative, unconvincing and unremitting Bose claims.

The 901 is a bogus design, a con, that has shown remarkable longevity in the face of common sense and common knowledge. Give it a rest.

Bjesien _ Excellent analogy but you stopped short of pointing out what emerges from between the cheeks..............