Posted by Bill Wassilak [ 65.115.221.98 ] on March 25, 2004 at 09:45:20:

In Reply to: Stopped at the Bose store posted by newsjeff on March 24, 2004 at 22:24:17:

>>The 901s had no bass at all. I thought there was very little separation in the instruments. The horns and the strings sounded bright to me. The salesmen told me the 901s weren't hooked up right, something about the active equalizer not being installed.

They do sound like shit especially without the equalizer, they dump so much low+hi frequency boost out of this EQ just to get them to sound half way decent.

>>When I asked if I could run the 901s with a 7 watt set, they had no idea.

I don't think so, all your amp headroom would be eatin up by the +15db boost below 100hz and the +10db boost above 10khz that the piece of shit equalizer puts out. And Bose says in the 901 owners manual recommend amp power no less than 10w rms, even with this I bet you wouldn't be able to crank it up very loud without running out of headroom in the amp.

Bill W.

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