For all you Bose 901 Haters!

Back in the early 80`s my friends and I party at a club in Ellicott, City MD. Just out side of Baltimore, they had 12to15 Bose 901`s series1`s hanging from a 40 ft. ceiling. I was so impressed I went out and bought a pair of 901 series2  and hung them from my 8ft leaving room ceiling powered by Mac C28 preamp Mac 2105 power amp. The Bose and the Mac really sucked the Bose had to be played very  loud they were very bright very weak bottom.  The Mac being Dark and Veil tone the brightness down some what. However I got rid of the garbage and discovered the love of my life to this day Audio Research Pass Labs and Maggies 

Everyone has a Bose  story. I mentioned Bose 901 to my wife in 1988 when we were married and she bought me a pair for my BD. I wish I would've mentioned anything else. I've had them in my shop hanging from the ceiling,  never placed inside house.  there a decent shop speaker for background music at low levels, what other speaker could you hang from a ceiling. Oh and btw the speakers are almost mint condition still with the foam surrounds like new. A fellow on AK reworked the eq after I screwed it up.  The speakers are very fatiguing, if they weren't a present they'd been gone. 

rankaudio@ magnepan has a great image and stage but the most people dont know how to use them.

Also you never needs a sub with magnepan, magnepan has the most natural bass.

First quit with tube amps and put a big amp on it.

Well, so many ideas come to mind.  First was the hysterical laughing fit we had in my shop when we finally got around to hooking up a pair of these (1974).  I still remember my tummy hurting from laughing so much.  I think we actually fell on the floor and rolled around--we were young in those days.

I had never heard them before and we were going around the room hooking up one pair of speakers at a time for my "education" since, at that age, I "knew everything" of course.  I thought we had them hooked up wrong or something.  NOTHING could sound that bad, especially from a company who's print ads featured very tall young guys dressed in white lab coats with Buddy Holley glasses and clipboards.  Naw, they were just as bad as they sounded.  

Funny, I had a couple of old Mac 275's (I think--long time ago) but we did not hook them up as we were using all Audio Research stuff for this education session.

Whew--funny even now.  But hey, the ads were wonderful, no?

Cheers!

Yes, everyone has a Bose story.  My roommate in college had these. We were both budding audiophiles.  We discovered if you turn them around and play them backward so the drivers are facing you, the imaging improves and they do sound quite good, in a way that most multiple small driver systems can sound.  I might add, in playing them backward you do not have to play them so loud and the overall sound is nonfatiguing.  They just lacked deep bass.