For all you Bose 901 Haters!

I heard my computer monitor speakers which had a picture video  of Bose 901's.. But not to fear. I heard them in 1978 when I bought my 1str relatively hi end system. We A/B"d the 901 against the Original large Advent. I went home with the Advents.

Now its true that the901's sounded pretty decent at very high volumes. But The Advents sounded better at every volume level  I generally listened.

I remember they bought a slough of those thing for the skating ring and hung them all way up in the top. They sounded wonderful for about two weeks. Somebody got in the place and stole everyone. I worked there. I though it was funny. We rolled out the ol Western Electrics that were put there right after the great flood (Noah's Flood) and hooked them up and they played right on.. They weighed 400lbs. I don't think they could lift them to steal them.. WE amps too. Burn the crap out of ya..:-)

My wife had Bose because her brother did. I used Jensen Imperials back then.

I liked my Imperials better. :-) Mac tube gear.. No SS

MC275 would make the Series II Bose cackle pretty good. Series 1 was a PIG. 300 watts I've seen piped into Series I, they just got louder and louder..

Regards

They sound just like my computer's desktop speakers.

The 901 series 3 where my 2nd set of speakers, I hung them by chains. The foam surrounds roted bose sent me the series 6 for $125 i think.. added a big sub with a crown dc300 running it. I ran a carver 1.5t into the bose. I swear they would get swinging a party nights. Those were the days.

Folks, I was heading to Vietnam for the evacuation in 1973-74 on an amphib asault ship (USS Duluth) and when we got back, the 901's were the bomb. With the Navy Exchange stores they were side by side with Mac gear and we all had lots of $ to spend. Have to tell all you naysayers, they had there time, served an amazing purpose of loud but fun sound and we all grew up.