Not supposed to work but does anyway...


The girls were out for the weekend, which gave me a chance to not only listen to a few LPs uninterrupted, but also to do a lot of component and speaker switching for fun. Was listening to some female vocal jazz through the ProLogue Three/Seven combo and decided to give the Spica Angeli a rest and hook up a stacked quad of older Bose series VI 901s that I picked up along the 20" long wall window glass with all the curtains up. This was only meant to last a minute, so I did not bother inserting the EQ.

Unboosted bass was more than adequate with the KT88s, and mids were characteristically very clear and present. Balance was way better than I had expected. Top end was rolled off, but not unpleasantly so-- With the room-filling saturation even at low levels, this will make a really nice background setup for a cocktail party that will not intrude but will provide plenty of detail from anywhere in the room for anybody who happens to be listening.

I guess it's like my great-grandfather breeding mules-- sometimes you get something useful when you hook things up that were not meant to be.
morgenholz
Seems that this would be mid range only, which can be pleasant short term.
I get it.
The EQ on the Bose was a full range EQ, for those not knowing about them...those 4.5" drivers, left to their own device, wouldn't play bass OR treble.

In some ways, and I know this is heresy to many audiophiles...yes in an earlier incarnation, I owned 901's...at the time, I thought them, room filling and fun, with gargantuan mid-bass.

Sounds like you had fun Morgenholz...that's the objective.

Larry