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In Reply to: RE: Bose still makes the 901???!!!! posted by MannyE on July 19, 2016 at 09:39:05:
I don't want to bash them if you like them. I suppose that's possible to do.
Back in the 70s, when I was a real neophyte, an audio cognoscenti of my acquaintance who was at the time running two pairs of Quad 57s driven by a Marantz 9, with a 7C front end, described the then very popular Bose 901 as "sand in the public eye". True or not, I love the metaphor.Back in the late 60s, when I was in college, Amar Bose hit the scene in Boston as an important theorist. He was a professor at MIT, and he promoted the idea of filling the room with direct sound. His first product, or at least the first one I ever saw at Tech Hi-Fi in Cambridge, was a quarter of a sphere that was designed to sit on the floor in a corner of the room, right up against the floor and the two walls where they meet at 90 degrees to form a corner. The quarter-sphere had a radius of about 3 ft, so it took up significant space. The surface of the partial sphere was a geometrical array of individual single drivers, driven full range. I don't know what it cost, but it was probably very expensive for those days. I think the 901 was the end-point in an attempt to get the same or a similar effect in a simpler less space-taking device.
Edits: 07/20/16
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