[Vintage-Audio] Re Bose 901 And EQ

Tue Feb 11 12:19:01 2003

Duane..don't get me wrong..they don't sound bad, just that they suffer 
from rather poor tweeters. The L-100 was a price point copy of the 
very good sounding 4340 (or some number close to that), which was/is a 
studio reference speaker of quite high merit. JBL improved on the 
L-100 with the L-200 and it sounds much better. I have a pair of 
L-177s which was an intermediate step (titanium dome tweeters) in the 
chain. The bass is astounding and the mids are vey clean in all the L 
series, it is the tweets that are different.

BTW, I recently got a realtime spectrum analyzer that has thousands of 
little dots that give the amplitude of the sound as a function of 
frequency. I find that the L-177s are set poorly (they have 
adjustments for mid and high) with about a 6 dB dip in the mids. Shows 
how bad my ears are, so don't believe anything I say.

WBob

Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
> Bob, 	
> 
> 	You think my James B. Lansing Century L-100 sound poor? Hmm. Pray tell, what do
> you think sounds good?	
> 	
> You are the first, and only, person in twenty-nine years who said that about the
> Century L-100's. Even allowing for a difference in personal taste, tone deafness
> and lack of music taste, your statement seems rather harsh. (Not that you are
> tone deaf or have no musical taste) 	
> 	
> Duane W8DBF	
>  
> 
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> From: WBob <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re Bose 901 And EQ
> Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:01 AM
> 
> Bose not only don't sound good without the equalizer, they sound 
> terrible. Even with the equalizer they are very poor compared to most 
> anything else..even your JBL 100s.
> 
> WBob
> 
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
> 
>>	
>>The Bose 901 in question are from 1971. They are using a generic EQ unit. It
> 
> has
> 
>>always been my understanding,and experience, that unless the Bose EQ unit is
>>used, the sound is only so so. Nothing special at all. To get the proper
>>intended audio response the Bose speakers must use the EQ designed for them by
>>Bose. 	
>>
>>	Right or wrong? 	
>>	
>>What is a pair of these ceiling mounted speakers worth with the proper EQ and
>>without the EQ?	
>>	
>>Is it still possible to purchase the correct EQ for them, if so, how much? 	
>>	
>>Thanks. 		
>>	
>>Duane Fischer, W8DBF	
>> 
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