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Bose 901 Direct/Reflecting Speaker System - Walnut | 
 enlarge | Brand: Bose
Category: CE
Buy New: $1,398.00
New (2) Used (1) from $900.00
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 38396
Media: Electronics
nv: Speakers: 12 3/4"H x 21 1/16"W x 12 3/4"D (32.4 x 53.3 x 32.4 cm) 35 lbs. (16 kg)
Equalizer: 2 1/2"H x 13"W x 5"D (6.4 x 33 x 12.6 cm) 3 2/5 lbs. (1.5 kg)
MPN: 003224
Model: 901 Series VI
UPC: 017817200141
EAN: 0017817200141
ASIN: B0006B5V6G
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Our best speakers for movies and music. Only live sounds better | | • | Nine full-range drivers for each speaker | | • | Free-standing active equalizer for smoother, more natural balance and clarity |
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Product Description
The introduction of the revolutionary Bose 901 speakers in 1968 redefined the phrase high fidelity. For the first time, a speaker was capable of reproducing music with much of the impact, clarity and spaciousness of a live performance. Today's 901 speakers incorporate some 350 enhancements over the acclaimed original. 901 speakers work by reflecting most of the sound off walls and other flat surfaces, instead of aiming all the sound toward you, as conventional speakers do. With Direct/Reflecting speaker technology, anything you listen tofrom the latest DVD audio to your favorite vintage recordsacquires lifelike realism, because the speakers reproduce the natural concert hall balance of direct and reflected sound. The result is what we call Stereo Everywhere speaker performancestereo performance that is clear and lifelike everywhere in the room, instead of in just one "sweet spot." You'll experience balanced sound throughout the listening environment, no matter where you sit or stand. Just as you enjoy beautiful music reproduction from these speakers, you can also experience thrilling home theater effects from your home theater components. These speakers are an appropriate choice for use with your surround sound receiver, and can be used in conjunction with other Bose home theater speaker options.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
Stellar Audio Icon October 18, 2008
M. Hunt (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a professional musician I have known about BOSE for most of my 28 year career and wondered what all the controversy was about the 901's so I decided a year ago to give them a try and see for myself. I also own other mid to high end audio components. Through extensive listening sessions I have experienced both good and bad aspects of these speakers. 901's when properly set-up, which only took me about an hour and when used with quality components are capable of producing spacious sound stage, detailed imaging with depth, positioning with excellent sonic clarity.
Hearing minuet differences with musical sources such as CD, SACD, DVD and other digital sources as well as using different audio components, even when switching audio interconnect cables of the same brand and grade are not usual. On quality recordings such as Telarc CD's and SACD's, I regularly hear vocal and instrument musical details that I have not heard with other speakers like my Polk SDA's and Martinlogans. If your ear is trained well enough and when used with quality components, you can actually hear whether or not an acoustical sound sock was used on the vocal mike or just a nylon mesh. Also, low frequency bass is very tight, detailed and defined down to frequencies you can feel more than hear. When lower frequency notes are not present bass disappears as it should. Listening to the TelArc CD of the 1812 Overture, when the cannons fired, the 901's vibrated and rattled all the windows in my living room. Even at low volume these speakers perform with most of the musical detail intact. High frequency notes are handled equally well with depth, detail and clarity. Mid frequency content on quality disk are razor sharp. If you listen close enough one can actually hear individual pulsations of vocal chords, not the variations in pitch but the vocal un-pitch air moving across the vocal chords. Like wise, acoustical guitars are so vibrant those not only hear the guitar strings acoustical footprint but the body of the guitar reverberating with slight acoustical sounds. The 901's reproduce all of the musical content imbedded in your digital media reproducing nothing more and nothing less!!!!
Surround sound applications such as Dolby 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1 work well considering in general 50% of surround information is directed to the center channel, 30% is dedicated too front channels (901's), the remainder to the back channels. Taking this into account the steering effects of Dolby and DTS are adequate and should yield satisfactory results on most DVD or Blue-Ray formats.
As for the negative aspects here is what I encountered. Positioning is more of an effort than other designs but not a big pain. One draw back that particularly annoyed me is the fact the speaker terminals are on the bottom of the speakers unless you rotate the mounting then the speaker connections are visible from the top of the speaker. So to solve this connection/mounting problem I purchased two inexpensive CD cabinet/stands and drilled 2-1/2" access holes in the top for speaker cable connection. Also the speaker terminals are thumb screw binder post type. With a little ingenuity I managed to drill and tap banana style terminal post and mount to the speakers binder post to make a secure tight connection that works really well and allows for maximum signal transfer. Also, if you intend to use higher quality speaker cables don't bother buying the BOSE speaker stands as most of these higher quality speaker cables such as Monster Z Series will not go thru the stands center section due to the cables diameter and terminal configurations. Pedestal stands cover the speaker terminals when mounted to the 901's allowing cable access only through the center section of the stands. Use of common stranded cables with these stands would most likely be okay.
In conclusion, for the price of the 901's you might be able to find other manufacturers that sound somewhat similar as the 901's like Polk, MartinLogan, Infinity and many others but I doubt that you will find any capable of sounding as musically defined across all the musical spectrum as these units do because of the unique BOSE technology.
 Value and longevity and oh, yeah - perfect sound August 23, 2008
E. E. Campbell, III (Ewingville, The Hub of NJ)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought a pair of these in the early '70's, while I was at college in Boston. They have been with me through thick and thin. They carried me through the deaths of John Lennon and Stevie Ray Vaughan. When Jerry died, they performed a funeral vigil for days. These days, they get more Mozart than Stones, and with the exception of one trip back to the factory in the early 80's for new driver seals, they have been the best sounding and most durable speakers I've owned or heard. They really get it when the kids are here for holidays. Powered by an old 200 watt per ch. Denon, they please the family and disturb the neighbors. These things are 36 years old. Do the math on dollars vs. decibel/minutes.
After 40 years..still a classic! July 1, 2008
jaybo (arizona)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Amar Bose created this maverick design in 1968, and to this day, it stands as one of the finest loudspeaker systems for the home. If you love music, and don't want to get on the audiophile merry-go-round, make the 901 your choice.
 Ancient technology... Poor imaging and lacks low frequency bass! June 7, 2008
Joseph A. Nowak (West of the Mississippi)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
One of my friends at work purchased these speakers about a year ago. About a month ago I brought a Telarc cd recording of the 1812 Overture and a few other discs over to his house to listen to his top of the line Bose speakers. The first thing I noticed is that the bass is seriously lacking when the cannons are fired on the Telarc disc.
The same is true when I listened to Led Zeppelin's "that's the way" track... towards the end of the cut when extremely low frequency bass kicks in during the instrumental part. I could barely hear the first note in the baseline! The other notes in the baseline varied noticeably, depending on note frequency, becoming boomy about 12 notes into the baseline. On my system at home with Yamaha RX-V3800 receiver and Axiom M80 V2 speakers I could hear the entire baseline clean, with almost no variation in volume on ANY of the notes. By the way, I have no subwoofer yet... and the Axiom M80 v2's cost roughly the same as the Bose speakers, actually less if you get the bose speaker stands made for the 901's.
The other serious problem Bose has with this speaker system is IMAGING and presence. Great imaging is the ability to distinguish the exact location of each of the band musicians on the soundstage as it was recorded. Granted, the average pop music recording does not make use of state of the art recording equipment... but Telarc recordings are all made for audiophiles... and Led Zeppelin used state of the art recording equipment for almost all their albums. The sound is very clear and very distinct as recorded. It's just that Bose sacrifices these certain elements when reproducing all higher quality recordings in order to reduce the size of their speakers and to "fill the room with sound", indistinct as it is! Wide soundstage, yes... accurate placement within that soundstage, no. Good bass? NO! Fair mid-bass with some boominess in approximately the 150-600Hz range (about 2 octaves).... and voices sound way too deep chested!
Also Four days ago, I went to a Bose store to listen to their Bose Acoustic Wave Radio. For a clock radio it sounds pretty good. but to even consider comparing it to even a low end regular size home stereo system is a joke! I was extremely disappointed!! Yes, the bass was somewhat surprising... but very lacking, compared to most home audio systems (except for those cheap mini systems costing considerably less than $300). Want to spend over $1300 for a pair of speakers? Go with Axiom or Paradyne speakers and get TRUE high fidelity
surround speaker June 7, 2008
Thomas R. Allen Jr.
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
i just came across a pair of very old 901s. no eqalizer.
lifted a corner of the grill cover with a butter knife to check the foam surrouds,,, perfect
looked up the owners manual on the bose website to see what the eqalizer thing was all about. too much taboo for me.
so,, what i did was to hook these 2 nice walnut cabinet speakers up to my surround left & right channels. pretty cool
with my vintage jbl l00s for mains. a velodyne sub, a b&w kevlar center
and a phase linear center channel speaker for my 6/7 rear surround,
all being pushed with a denon 3801, i put on cream at royal albert hall 2006 hddvd and cranked it up a little.
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