The best speaker you ever heard?

The Bose 901 is a failed concept. Hifisoundguy cannot change that with his incessant intrusions. The speaker is a "line disarray" which succeeded well in print before most of us knew anything. As we learned more about speaker designs, the absurdity of the Bose 901 assertions became apparent.

OVer many years, I've never heard a home audio Bose setup that sounded even marginally good to me.

Maybe some tube or very good other modern amplification would help? Possible.

One thing I'll say about the 901s, having not heard a pair outside of commercial setups in quite a while, is that their price point relative to the high end is probably more attractive than ever. They used to be one of the more expensive speakers out there for enthusiasts to covet. Now they pale in comparison probably in most ways to the current "high end".

They seem to garner a lot of positive ratings on various sites that measure these things though, no denying that. So someone out there is dropping decent money on them and liking it.

That's the problem here, nobody else here has heard the.. "latest BOSE 901's yet". People here think these latest BOSE 901's are the same as the 901's made in the past BUT there not ! The have been a lot improvements to these latest 901's and it shows too ! They are now using a different speaker drive and it looks like a high quality driver too. It's just a matter of time before someone else here try out these latest 901's and posts how GOOD these speakers really are. BOSE BASHERS.. you go head and have your fun BUT I know how "DAMN GOOD" these "LATEST" 901's are !!.........

I think personal taste would be a big factor as always, but it would be interesting to hear the latest 901's in comparison to others at their price point. I have no doubt they will sound different, and perhaps even distinctive.

How good? I think technically, there is only so much the design can do but that is true of most speakers at that price point, so you never know just who might prefer what and why.

I'm surprised Bose redid the 901s. I would think it could be a cash cow (no R&D, no retooling, no advertizing) if they left it alone. Thought they were more concerned with HT, headphones and other products they've become successful at. But to redo what is mostly a 2 Channel speaker??? Interesting.