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1. #BOSE 901 SERIES VI SPEAKERS WITH EQUALIZER DRIVERS#
2. #BOSE 901 SERIES VI SPEAKERS WITH EQUALIZER DRIVER#
3. #BOSE 901 SERIES VI SPEAKERS WITH EQUALIZER FULL#
4. #BOSE 901 SERIES VI SPEAKERS WITH EQUALIZER PLUS#

It's a pretty stout box if you account for all of the holes in it.Īwkward is an understatement, these terminals are in the middle of the bottom of the speaker. The cabinet is made of what looks like veneered MDF for the top and bottom, the rear of the speaker is a thick injection molded plastic.

#BOSE 901 SERIES VI SPEAKERS WITH EQUALIZER FULL#

The downside is that these ports can put a candle out from 6 feet away and are audible at full chuff. The port tube design is something I've never seen duplicated, it makes for a very deep tuning without much physical volume. If you try running these speakers without the rear grills expect shrillness on a scale that should not exist in the natural world.Ī two piece port, one side exits on the front of the speaker hidden behind the tweed grill, the other blasts air out of the rear of the speaker. The rear grill also works to cut the treble response from the rear drivers. The rear grills are a molded metal mesh and the clip to cover the back drivers. The front grills are tweed and attached with a handful of tiny staples that are only possible to find with a magnet, so they stayed on for this review.

#BOSE 901 SERIES VI SPEAKERS WITH EQUALIZER DRIVERS#

These drivers are 1 ohm each, and are ganged up in such a way internally to produce an 8ohm load.

#BOSE 901 SERIES VI SPEAKERS WITH EQUALIZER PLUS#

The drivers also have the ugly looking tinsel leads on the front, but on the plus side the plastic baskets are branded three times along with the dust cap. The design has not changed since then, and honestly it's almost longer in the tooth than Klipsch Heritage speakers.īlue cones with that famous for failing foam surround. This pair was made back in 1987 when Bose speakers were still made in America. The pair of speaker I have for review are the most recent iteration of the 901 design, the Series VI. This is the speaker that back in 1968 proved commercial viability of omnidirectional, dipole, and all sorts of bizarre dispersion patterns.Įven today you can see some of these same ideas being used in new products such as Audio Kinesis "Late Ceiling Splash" technology, where very directional speakers are coupled with delayed reflections that add emersion to the listening experience.

#BOSE 901 SERIES VI SPEAKERS WITH EQUALIZER DRIVER#

One full range driver in the front, 8 on the back, 4 port tubes, and an active EQ box to make it sound reasonable. Profits from Bose smart manufacturing, not corner cutting, has funded research that shaped much of today's the audio landscape.Īll of that said, in general, Bose products do sound like shit. As for the argument that their gear is overpriced, I've heard much worse for much more. Bose was doing research using Dummy heads and figuring out head related transfer functions in the 70's that laid the ground work for headphone and VR breakthroughs that are happening now. They were installing EQ'ed Class D active speaker modules in the doors of Cadillac's back in 1984. If you enjoy a high quality factory car stereo, you can thank Bose for that as well. If you have a satellite speakers or a subwoofer, you can thank Bose for popularizing that form factor.

Truth is a little different, Amar Bose was definitely not an evil man, instead one of the world's great philanthropists, and his company pushed the boundaries of audio more that most people realize. In audiophile circles Bose is usually a punch line to a joke, or even seen as the great corporate evil of audio.īose is known only using paper cone drivers pushed into unusually small boxes, never publishing frequency response specs, and suing Consumer Reports for giving them a bad review.Įven though paper is a good material to use for speaker drivers, and plenty of audiophile companies don't publish specs, the perception is that Bose is overpriced junk.