To all of the Bose-bashers

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

Wow, am I glad I'm not you. To spend so much time with a speaker you don't like, it must have been hell.

Dude, you have no idea!! But it is my job to recommend the best speakers for my clients, so I do just to keep informed. After listening to them, and measuring them, you can safely assume that I didn't recommend them.

Frequancy responce is one part of the equation, but not the whole part. Phase coherance, transiant responce, box resonance, diffraction effects, all are part of the whole picture.

All of this I am accutely aware of. This speaker had a poor frequency response, profound phase variances(because of the reflections) poor transient response(also because of the reflections) some box resonance, and there was no need to talk about diffraction. In that day they paid no attention to that at all.

The comb effects that you observed as a saw tooth responce graph can be changed by the proper speaker positioning. As I remember the 901's were set about 6' from the back wall. Actually I thought it was funny, as I never saw anyone set speakers out in the middle of the room!

You are not correct. The comb filtering is an effect of the design of the speaker and cannot be avoided. Comb filtering happens when the different reflections emitted by the speaker collide with each other adding and subtracting the frequency response of the speaker. Moving the speaker further away from the walls creates distinct echo's, and causes the bass response to roll off even higher than it does. Placing them closer to the walls kills the transient response further, causes imaging to be extremely diffused(worse than it already is), and causes it to stimulate room modes and nodes profoundly.

No, I never did hear any intimate piano on them, but I did hear some classical, and I brought my Doobie Bros album over, and boy did it sound good! .

I never knock anyone's taste, this speaker just doesn't fit mine for the reasons I mention previously.

Yes, there's a big difference when you hear naturally recorded ambiance replayed through a point source, and then played through a dipole. I prefer dipoles, and so do a lot of other audiophiles.

I always thought so called audiophile's holy grail was accuracy. Now I REALLY do not understand what an audiophile is. They buy cables that have a distinct sonic character, speakers that create artificial reflections, and pair these will ultra expensive tube amps with tons of distortion, turntables with ultra expensive tone arms, and pay very little to room acoustics. If this is what audiophile stands for, I am glad I am not one!