EganMedia wrote:

2. Bouncing the sound off the wall to produce a sense of spaciousness is
aesthetically invalid when the recording itself is supposed to contain the
original acoustics. This effect might be fine for mono recordings, but it is
antithetical to a well-engineered stereo or surround recording.


I'm not going to defend Bose. I think they suck as much as everyone else
around here. I do question this particular statement though. If listening
room reflections were "antithetical to a well-engineered stereo or surround
recording", wouldn't there be more people arguing for anechoic listening rooms
and control rooms?


Right. The idea of the 901 is not to recreate the space that the
instruments were recorded in, but rather to add space to your particular
room to make it sound like a more finally tuned listening environment.

If set up properly, which can actually be very difficult, the 901s can
sound reasonably good, though you won't get the crispy highs or ultra
highs that a multi-driver speaker can provide. Of course a lot of old
ears don't hear that much of that anyway.

Regardless, they were always overpriced, and over hyped. Seems nothing
has changed at Bose in all these years.