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- From: Matt.Ion@p106.f7040.n153.z1.ship.wimsey.bc.ca (Matt Ion)
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- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Bose Speakers
- Message-ID: <727602043.AA00289@ship.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 10:11:48 -0800
- Lines: 51
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- MJK> WRT the "MGS" quote above, well, some Bose speakers have powerful,
- MJK> deep bass. In my view, the Bose 10.2 series II speakers are their
- MJK> best speakers. They have good midrange response, unlike the
- MJK> Acoustimass AM-5 and AM-3, good treble, and bass from hell, owing to
- MJK> the twin Acoustimass subwoofers, one in each cabinet. I'll put 'em
- MJK> up against any other Bose speaker.
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- Their 802 professional reinfocement speakers are pretty darn good too. I've
- used them in a lot of different situations on all manner of different gigs.
- They're nothing near a full-blown Turbosound system,but they're great for what
- they are.
-
- MJK> Now, people will argue that Bose is shit, etc, and that I should
- MJK> go out and spend zillions of dollars on Vandersteens or something.
- MJK> They will usually base this view on any number of bad things that've
- MJK> been said about Bose's flagship, the 901. These bad things usually
- MJK> involve stupid things like how linear a 901 is in an anechoic
- MJK> chamber (this is ludicrous, of course, since the 901 design DEPENDS
- MJK> upon having a wall behind it and a floor below it), or how linear
-
- Besides, how many people have an anechoic living room or listening room?
-
- MJK> the 901 drivers are by themselves, or how they 901's sound without
- MJK> its outboard processor (this is also silly, since the 901 is a
- MJK> SYSTEM, which is designed to be used only with its processor. Why?
- MJK> Acoording to Prof. Bose, they were willing to trade some frequency
- MJK> response characteristics to give them more freedom in designing
- MJK> other areas of the speakers. Those tradeoffs are then compensated
- MJK> for by the EQ). I don't want to argue this issue here, since it's
-
- Someone once mentioned the same thing ("deficient design that needs an
- outboard EQ") but when you really think of it, it's no different than the
- passive crossovers used in almost all speakers, or the active ones used in
- multiamped systems. Heck, the ideal speaker is a SINGLE driver with
- 10Hz-30kHz +/- 0.00001dB response, 50kW power handling, 140dB*1W/1m
- sensitivity, etc, etc, etc, and costs $0.50. Anything else is, IMO, a
- "deficient design"; it's just a metter of degrees then. Even a $60,000 pair
- of supre-duper mondo Finkelsteens :) is a lousy design, limited by several
- laws of physics. Meaning that the whole bloody discussion is something of a
- "non-issue".
-
- MJK> been flamed to death for years. I don't even like the 901's a whole
- MJK> lot (see above). I only put this paragraph in so that there'd be a
- MJK> tiny bit of balance, and so people would be aware that there are
- MJK> other speakers in the Bose line, besides the 901, and some of them
- MJK> are quite good.
-
- I personally kinda like the 901s. Always have. But again, that's just me.
- I've always liked what I've heard from Bose.
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