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Termyn8or -> RE: Amar Bose: Teacher, Inventor, Entrepreneur RIP (7/15/2013 12:16:24 AM)
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The fact is that Bose was never high fidelity, never close, never tried to be and NEVER CLAIMED TO BE.
I am one of the last true audiophiles and I wll tell you now, alot of Dr. Bose's designs sounded great, gave the listener a wonderful experience and reallt SOLD. My Mother has a pair to this day she bought in the 1980s. About 5"X5"X6", they shake the floor on twenty watts. they are also very clean, distortionwise. I will not fault Bose speakers on distortion, they are quite clean at reasonable levels. the 901s went to pretty high levels but they doi have the disadvantage of being a one way system, basically.
Bose was not the G-d some may make him out to be, but he was smart enough to forget about high fidelity in a room. You want flat twenty to twenty with no THD, get fucking headphones. that seems to be his attitude. Out in the room he did as much as he possibly could to bounce the sound all over the fucking place. Roy Allison kkicked his ass, but didn't have enough backing.
I want my speakers straight at me, which is why 90 % of 901 users turned them around. WTF ?
The ambience and colour of the original room was reproduced just fine by the original microphones in the recording. If not, you cannot replace that with the ambience in your own room and call it high fidelity. It is just fucking WRONG. HIGH FIDELITY. Look up each word separately. High means alot, fidelity means faithfulness.
Dr. Bose was NEVER about that, he was about good sound. He got tht ethereal sound from bouncing it around and people were more impressed with it sometimes than Carver's Sonic Holography or the old SQ or QS quadrophonic systems. as it made it sound as if there were more speakers than there actually were.
People were fooled and people were excited about it. And they bought.
If oyu EVER have a chance to put a Bose ANYTHING to a frequency sweep and measurement for flatness of response, it will be off the scale. the Man simply never cared about response. He would send midbass to the rear and hi mid to the side, whatever.
Us real audiophiles prefer all the sound to be coherent. COHERENT, look it up. That is the one singular thing that Dr. Bose avoided wwas coherence.
Enough. He is dead now. He could build almost good speakers as me, for less money for sure. Cuprous rest his soul.
(really cuprous is copper, and one of Bose's real innovations was to use aluminum wire for voice coils. After while he made them rectangular on an angle which put mor emagnetic density there, where it was needed. Actually that is his greatest innovation)
T^T
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