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"Arny Krueger" wrote:

"PanHandler" wrote in message


As I was reading the thread on Bose 901 speakers I was
reminded of a Bose system of the mid-late sixties. It was
a single cabinet unit about 8' long by about 3' high and
had a convex curved front panel with ports (slots?) at
each end near the mid and high drivers. The curved panel
looked about 5½ feet wide. The model name was 'Patrician'
possibly with a suffix number.


As others have observed, it was the EV Patrician, of which there were a
chronological sequence of upgraded models.

It had a 30" woofer.


Impressive in the day, by modern standards it is a peanut-whistle. Couldn't
take much power, and had virtually no linear stroke at all.


I've heard that EV developed that 30" woofer as a replacement when they
lost their license to make Klipschorn clones -- and they lost it because
their "clones" deviated a bit too much, and performed a bit too poorly,
to satisfy PWK.

Isaac