On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:19:17 -0500, Will Brink
wrote:

In article ,
Peter Sammon wrote:

It's a well known engineering fact that audiophile quality speakers such as
the 901s work well on tube amplifiers. snip

What a line of horse ****!

Nothing Bose makes is audiophile quality. The take outdated design, use
ultra cheap materials, and market to people who fall for the pseudo
science talk. A dead cat sounds better and is better made. snip

Now, THERE'S the truth. Amar Bose developed one of the leading fraud
houses of audio. People with ANY knowledge base at all laugh at
anything with the Bose label. Want to know where he got the idea for
the ill sounding 901? Look back in a 1948 issue of Radio magazine at
their article about the "sweet sixteen" homebrew speaker, where a guy
fills up a box with 16 cheap 4" speakers rather than spend the money
on a good 15" driver. Some guys at Hammond Organ Corporation read
that same article and loaded up a tombstone shaped box full of cheap
10" drivers rather than use good 15"s, and got similarly horrid
results back in late 1948. Of course, the premise didn't work in '48,
didn't work when the 901 was introduced, and doesn't work now. And
remember....

"Got no highs? Got no lows! Only midrange....MUST BE BOSE!"

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