Bose 901 Review Well Done.

Here’s an awesome KC remaster that should send chills. 

I really like the review and agree mostly with it.

   I've posted my Bose story here before but here's a quick recap:

I bought a pair of Bose 901 II's and a Bose 500W amp from the Rhein-Main Audio/Photo Club in May 1973 for $1176.00...I still have them.

   Pink Floyd DSOTM tour came to the Hampton Roads Coliseum that spring. Most impressive concert to this day.  The Bose at home in a carpeted, mostly bare,12x20 living room at clipping levels (amp LEDs)  came very close to recreating the concert sound (minus rear channels) when the album was released shortly after.

   One of my roomies had some L100's that were clipping way before the amp and 901's.  Walls of sound!

   In Mar 1990 I had the amp repaired for the first time with the right channel out (diode and resistor, loose solder on a transistor).   That fall it failed again, this time taking out all speakers on the right channel too.

   Auditioned several dealer setups...Wilson Audio, B&W 801, 705, Apogee, Magnepan, Vandersteen...most way beyond budget!  The Mag had a similar larger than life sound stage as the 901's, more detail, less bass.

   I bought the Vandy 2ci and they remain the front mains today.   Bose 201 II's for surrounds and the remaining 901 as rear surround.  It's too far to run the equalizer cabling so I tune it with my Pioneer SC LX801 DSP...works well as an "extended speaker" also, to give the house open floor plan full sound.

  Reference stereo system today is a standalone Susvara setup. 

Hey old_ears

I visited the RM Audio/photo club in 1974/75 when I was stationed in Darmstadt at Ernst Ludwig Kaserne. Bought my Nikkormat camera there, heard 901's and the Linear Design Lab copies. LDL went out of business when Bose sued them. They were pretty much a direct copy of the 901.

I didn't get my 901's until I got out in fall of 75. Bought them and Crown DC300A in early 1976. Many loud parties for many years. I had buddies with the planars, also DQ10.s. All had their attributes.

These started my hi fi journey.  Still on it 50 years later. 

It's a fair review of a classic 70's speaker.  For those that look down their nose at the Bose (see what I did there), HiFi is about what makes you happy, and since speakers in particular are very personal in terms of expectations, 901s had (I believe) 4 iterations and every one sold well.  So they did something right.

Heck, I still have fond memories of a pair of Sansui speakers (LM 330's?)  I bought in high school along with a Marantz 2235B receiver.