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Re: Ahh the legend in his own mind TINKERER is back ...

You seem to be hung up about Bose 901. I don't know why. I own many different speakers and different kinds of speakers, original Bose 901s among them. They were never inexpensive in any era they were sold in, so their popularity must have been due to more than mere hype and marketing. I'm not going into the technical details of it again, it is what it is. Just suffice it to say that there are many innovations and unique ideas embodied in it even if it is fatally flawed by current audiophile standards and the original version had some real advantages over series III and every series afterwards (starting about 1975.) Regardless of how you think it performs, two things can be said about it. One is that it was built to very high manufacturing standards. The second is that given Bose's offer to swap my 30+ year old speakers for a replacement new pair at half price means to me that they stand behind their product is ways other manufacturers don't. (once upon a time ago, KLH was such a company.) I don't expect you to beleive that they can be turned into a first rate speaker which still retains the unique advantages of the direct reflecting principle. Before doing it I wouldn't have believed it myself.

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