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Interesting comment on Bose Speakers.....

 I’ve heard quite a few audiophile speakers that used expensive drivers in ways that...well, didn’t suit my taste. Quite a few speakers using Focal tweeters made me feel like that guy in the movie Seven Beauties who went to “better  @@%%@!. Say what you want about Bose but a Bose speaker never made me want to leave the room.
ishkabibil
dadork
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A contact of mine invests 20k in a system....

Martin Logan Electrostatic....

High end amp and so on .....

Contacts me asking for help....

Says he cant take it.....he cant play a Classic Rock song for beans... Stand up and the speakers are horrible.....people over to listen off axis just doesnt get it....

Then the Bose guy who plays all genres and loves them including his or her company.

Overpriced? Really? At the end of the day I believe not.

@ishkabibil

So you defend Bose by saying people don’t place them optimally and the room hasn’t been set up right. Then your buddy’s 20k system sounded like crap but you didn’t "help him extract" everything that could be gotten? Didn’t you claim to have this talent? Under optimal for either system the Bose will fall flat against buddy’s Martin Logan’s.

b_limo,

I'm still trying to understand what your mother was thinking when she allowed you to drive at 13 years old.

@roxy54 Funny! My first concern was that she was having him listen to Yanni!

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roxy54
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dadork,

I was actually dead serious. What kind of mother does that? But yeah, the Yanni thing too...

dadork
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I agree with the poster who stated that what Bose does is introduce them to better sound which may be their springboard for actual hi-fi. It is what happened to me. Think about it. We make mass market out to be a bad thing when what it actually does is allow more people to be introduced to something better, not only in audio. If we were only able to have one or two versions of a product, we would never know any better. For many of us our journey might have started with a transistor radio. When I heard my uncles 901s for the first time I was over the moon. I had no other reference to judge them by. As long as someone is unable to hear better in person there will not be much need to improve on "the best". This is one of the downfalls of brick and mortars decline; it becomes harder and harder to hear anything different.

dadork
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@roxy54 don't live in a bubble! There are plenty of places where it would be perfectly safe to let a 13 y/o or younger drive. I grew up on dairies and rural areas and learned to drive much earlier. Was earning a paycheck driving farm trucks and tractors at 13.

The recent incident in Texas is awful, I am so sad for those families effected but that was a case of poor judgement and faulty equipment.

sgreg1
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Like everything in a category bows serves a niche audience. Do they sound great no. Can they sound good yes. I have owned two pair of 301’s, a pair of 691’s, and 901’s. Currently using 301’s in surround fronts. 901’s should go down as the best party speaker ever. Hung from the ceiling and powered by a Sansui 9090 receiver you could fill a large room with music. With the alcohol flowing the audience was rocking. I still own my 901’s they hang in my garage. One day for kicks I put them in my reference system (Vandersteen sig II) and did they sound bad. I was kinda shocked at how bad they were. I even changed them out with the 301’s and they even sounded better. I still enjoyed the 901’s back in the day and if people can get them set up right snd enjoy them so be it. Enjoy the music any way you can!

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