What are your thoughts on the "Edsels" of the audio history?

antigrunge298 posts10-28-2020 3:56pmBose 901. I still shudder in horror!

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901s weren't a bomb, they were the bomb! A LOT of folks had those things. If you bought Sony True ribbon Toppers, built a couple of good horn loaded subs, and used a good parametric/graphic EQ, you had a pretty serious way to make sound.. Type I and II were real popular, they could really be abused, 200-300 watts no problem. GREAT sound from 100 hz to 12k or so.

There was the "hang one pair", "standmount one pair", and put the Ribbons on top of the lower ones, or hang them from the top ones..

Early 70s though good SS amps cost a LOT..

Regards

+1 for the Terk antenna. I paid $60.00 for one at a high end store many years ago and it was useless.

The Bose 901 has been in production for over 50 years. I would not consider it a failure.  No doubt about it , it still sells!

Dayton Wright...

Atelier decent sound but Merica was not ready for quirky casework and a name unpronounceable 6 miles outside of Des’s Moines