[Vintage-Audio] Re Bose 901 And EQ

Tue Feb 11 15:33:01 2003

Duane..
I have been looking for a pair of the 4340s or whatever the JBL studio 
monitors of great fame are numbered. I have 7 speakers now in the 
system (6.1). The two JBLs are LF and RF, A 10 inch ADVENT acoustic in 
the FC (this is a great speaker and I find them at swap meets all the 
time for $20/pr and they need surrounds replaced ($22.00kit)). The two 
side speakers are little 8 inch KLHs and the rear is a 10in Wharfdale. 
All but the JBLs are acoustic loaded. I really like the sound of the 
old acoustics. The subwoofer is a 12 in direct with 150watts. All this 
is in a 12x12x8 room full of books, ham and computer stuff.

WBob

Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
> 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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