"Mys Terry" wrote in message
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:41:22 -0500, "RCE" wrote:


I used to like Bose, but it was back in the series 901
days.

RCE


There used to be a saying:

No highs, no lows, it must be BOSE!

The 901's required a special active equalizer to compensate for the fact
that a
bunch of 4 inch speakers simply could not reproduce the full audible
spectrum
without electronic aid. The equalizer's job was to cut midrange and boost
low
and high frequencies to make them sound "almost" as good as a pair of
JBL
speakers with separate woofers, midrange and tweeters - and no goofy
workarounds.


True, although the 9, 4-inch speakers did the job, they just needed
attenuation of their natural frequency response curve.

The real "magic" of the original 901's was the direct/reflecting concept of
the speaker design. For it's time it was revolutionary and helped correct
the imaged left and right sound of early stereo recordings. It's
interesting now with the Dolby Digital and DTS surround systems that this is
all done at the recording level now and the trend is to go to speakers that
have high imaging qualities.

RCE