[Vintage-Audio] Re Bose 901 And EQ
Duane Fischer, W8DBF
[email protected]
Tue Feb 11 14:24:00 2003
Hi Bob,
I guess the electronics just goes to show what is there and what we think we
hear. In my case, I have a serious loss in the 4 Khz range in the left ear due
to a Cobra cordless phone from 1981 ringing in my ear while I was using it. Not
supposed to happen. Talk about pain! I screamed and threw it on the ground. I
found out later that there was a class action lawsuit by 100 others who had
their hearing permanently damaged by these factory defective phones. Too bad I
missed joing that.
Now I have a permanent ringing from nerve damage and up to a 30 db loss in the 4
Khz range +/-
If you know where I can get the L-200 studio monitors (weren't they two-way?) or
the L-177, I would be very interested. I have had zero success in finding the
older JBL speakers.
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 12:09 PM
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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