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- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: MY FANTASTY HEARING AID COMPANY
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:59:42 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211201500.05@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov17.050331.8219@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1ec1agINNh82@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <1eef5gINN4to@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1eg7jfINNo1g@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1eg7jfINNo1g@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
- >In article <1eef5gINN4to@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano) writes:
- >>
- >>when i worked at mit, i was told that good ol' amar bose, while
- >>presenting a lecture, was asked why his 901 series speakers are
- >>never spec'd with power handling limits. in response, he
- >>unplugged a speaker from the demonstration setup, stripped the
- >>wire, and jammed it into a power outlet. after a 60 Hz burst of
- >>appropriate duration, he reconnected the speaker to the stereo
- >>and continued with the lecture.
- >
- >This is mostly due to power compression effects. The speaker becomes extremely
- >nonlinear at a high power level and its internal impedance increases
- >considerably. Incidentally, this causes horrible distortion on transient
- >passages, but it does make the things almost impossible to burn out.
- >
- >The 901s have the cheapest drivers you have ever seen... I would estimate
- >the component cost for the units to be less than $50 total per speaker.
- >
- >I would go on at length about this subject (among other things about how
- >the speakers are specifically designed to eliminate proper stereo imaging)
- >but it would just make me mad, and you can read the stuff in the
- >info-high-audio archives anyway.
-
- Yes, I could discourse for hours on why the old 901 systems are better than
- the new 901 systems.
-
- And why I don't like them.
-
- 1975 cost to manufacture was $100 per pair including equalizer. It is up to
- around $300 per pair now, mostly do to increases in labor and benefits costs.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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