Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: BOSE PA Series Speakers Message-ID: <1408@hound.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Oct-85 21:34:21 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.1408 Posted: Sun Oct 13 21:34:21 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Oct-85 06:18:05 EDT References: <72@ecn-aa.UUCP> <1404@teddy.UUCP> <1404@hound.UUCP> <1558@hammer.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 35 [] Bose PA speakers don't look much like the 901's. They have two models: the 402, which looks sort of like a column speaker 8"wide x 23" tall, and the 802, which maybe looks like the of a 901 with two large cylindrical ports in the middle of each half of the front side whick look sort of like eyes, or a stereo camera, or jet engine exhausts. You sure it was Bose? Could it have been positioned backwards? If it was a Bose 802 and it sounded awful, I can think of several possibilit- ies - other than outright malfunction: 1) Not driven by Bose amps a. Not using Bose spec equalizer . b. and or overdriven (not so easy to do - would take over 100 watts (Bose says 240)) More likely you were listening to a light amp itself being overdriven) 2) Driven by Bose amps with equalizer. a. Horribly overdriven on the amp input? b. Can't think of anything else. Like I said before, the ones I have heard were excellent. A might "sweet", perhaps, whatever that means, it just comes to mind when I hear them. They are really exceptional on voice and acoustic instruments, like small bands. My daughter recently bought one for the Illinois Community College where she is Audio-Visual Person. They use it mostly in what was a very problem room and everyone says its great. Like someone said,"It isn't what I don't know that's the problem, its what I know that isn't so." -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg