exelent speakers with proper placement and massive amplifier. good value for the money

critical placement and room acoustics

I have these speakers more than 3 years.In first time i used them with SONY STR-DA 1000 ES receiver ,and there sound good at low and midium levels. I was not satisfied and last year i bought old ROTEL RB-5000 , 500wpc power amplifier and result is amazing. Now there play loud and clear at any listening level. Now i have enough bass and power without subwoofer.

Customer Service

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When properly placed and EQ'd, the 901's are capable of compelling imaging. The speakers will disappear, just as they should.
Effortless dynamics, and a remarkably extended bass. Only the music remains.
Fast, involving, transparent.
Not for everyone - what audio component ever could be? - but for me!

The Bose 901 speaker has, in my opinion, been the butt of more vitriol and uninformed malice than any other piece of Audio equipment in the history of the hobby. Any kind of Fascism is offensive, but we're talking about MUSIC for Heaven's sake! Everyone has an opinion, apparently especially those who appear unable to read a manual! Very sad. So much mis- and dis-information.
To all the bashers, I would politely say you're welcome to hear them at my house. Then write a review, by all means. Friends of mine who count themselves knowledgeable and critical have consistently praised these humble-looking transducers, and not just to be polite!
Again, CORRECT PLACEMENT is absolutely essential, as is CORRECT EQ! This may be too much effort for some folks: if so maybe they should look elsewhere.
As this design radiates a great deal of energy to the rear, it's not a plug-and-play design: the stereo image can easily become too diffuse if the speakers are not properly placed. Complex room interactions can result in sound-smearing, and mis-timing of audible information, resulting in a muddle. This must be taken seriously.
Bose perhaps gloss over this difficulty: these speakers MUST be placed very carefully - sometimes a difference of a couple of inches is crucial.
Yes, you can make these speakers under-perform!
Perhaps the most confusing, mis-reviewed, speaker of all time.
IF, and only IF you are prepared to put in a little time, these speakers fully justify a 5 Star rating.

Another perspective: I am absolutely fed-up with the adolescent rubbish that some would-be buyers have to wade through! Personally, whenit comes to audio, I'm not interested in anything but highest quality music reproduction - as a professional, and classically trained musician, this is mandatory for me.
I've owned literally 100's of pieces of audio gear, some extremely expensive and esoteric examples. All great fun, but especially when it comes to choosing speakers, I have long known that, like pianos, say, they all sound different. Yes, in spite of all attempting to do the same thing, they all have a distinct sonic "footprint". In my experience, there will never be a "perfect" loudspeaker for all listeners, as tastes, budget, and ears are all different.
To write an objective review is an impossibility: by definition I will use my own biases, as does EVERYONE. Having been exposed to so much live music over the years may give me a slight advantage, who knows?
To all those silly people who indulge in Bose-bashing, let me say 'NONSENSE'! To those who like to indulge in the childish 'No highs no lows must be Bose' refrain, again nonsense! Unless my ears and testing equipment are lying to me, these speakers, PROPERLY EQUALIZED and PROPERLY LOCATED, are nothing short of astonishing, In terms of bass, their ability to produce fundamentals at 30Hz and below, with clean accuracy is simply marvelous. Unless you really need to feel a 15Hz fundamental, there will NEVER be a need for an outboard Subwoofer. Never. Period. For a smallish speaker, this is remarkable. Highs are equally well tended to, and with careful EQ and placement, your pets will be bothered even when you're not!
My listening tastes run the gamut from organ music at realistic volumes (I am an organist, and I know what to listen for), to techno and just about everything in between. These rather remarkable speakers will take anything that's dealt to them, bearing in mind the need for decent amplification - anything less than 50 Watts will run into problems if you enjoy realistic listening levels. Even massed vocals, one of the most severe tests, and the downfall of many speakers, are handled with ease and transparency.
Much has been written on the use of paper cones, and the necessity of using an Equalizer. For the former, I don't care what the materials used are, as long as the sounds are correct. Any criticism on this basis is simply puerile; the final sound is all that matters. I must admit I don't care for the fact that the foam surrounds will probably perish after 15 years or so, but since replacements are so easily available this isn't too much of an issue. (Try refurbishing the single speaker from an Ohm Walsh in comparison!!) The equalizer is another issue. Whilst on principle I don't like to introduce more electronics into the chain than necessary, this little box earns its keep, hands down. Listening without any equalization is an unpleasant experience, to say the least. (Bose bashers and others please note). I have experimented extensively with using second-party equalization, and I will go on record as saying that if you have the patience and the tools, you are not limited to the Bose equalizer. I am listening as I write to a thrilling version of Also Spracht Zarathustra, at neighbour-threatening levels, using a second-party equalizer - simply marvelous!
In sum, and you might think surprisingly, these are a very difficult speaker to recommend unequivocally. If the user is not prepared to take a very active part in careful placement and equalization, perhaps they're best left alone. I am utterly convinced that it is these facts alone that have contributed to so much of the nonsensical nay-saying associated with the 901's.

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I have always been into audio, from my early teens when the Zenith Alegro was cool. Then graduated to a pioneer receiver with HPM speakers. Then Onkyo receiver, etc. etc. When I was in the military in Okinawa in the late 70's early 80's I dumped a bunch of $ on a stereo. I went full bore with a Yamaha m-2 amp, Akai reel to reel, Nakamichi cassette deck, Yamaha m-4 preamp, ADC equalizer and spent litteraly thousands and had a high end system. When it came to speaker choice, I was torn between the JBL L150 and the Bose 901. I chose the JBL, simply because it did not need a to be a certain distance from the walls to sound good, not because it was a superior speaker system. It was a good choice at the time as I was young and lived in apartments and other places it would have been impossible to make the 901s work. I have had the JBL's for over 25 years and they have served me very well. I have used them as front mains in a home theater and never regreted the choice I made.

Now that I am older and have a decent listening room in my home, I decided to purchase a set of 901 series VI. I don't know if it is my age, but these speakers sound truely amazing. I have them in a room that will work with them. There is no other speaker I have heard in my lifetime that sounds more real. Every note of every insturment is heard. And whoever it was that said they don't work well with home theater, you are wrong! You have to take care on how you install them as they require the EQ to sound right. I have a Yamaha htr-5790 the powers all surround speakers except the front mains. I had to preout the front mains to the bose EQ, then to my Yamaha m-70 amp which powers the 901's. It is simply stunning. The JBL speakers are gathering dust for now, even though I have very fond feelings for them and would never let them go. I will be using the Bose speakers from this point forward.

For those that think the 901 is a joke and that all of the new high dollar speakers are where it is at, more power to you!!! I have known for many years what the 901 could deliver, but never had the ability to utilize it. I am just glad that within my lifetime I have had the privilage to own and listen to these great speakers in my own home. It is not for me to tell anyone what they like to hear in a speaker, but if you say the Bose 901 does not sound awsome when used correctly I would say your listening with your oversized wallet and ego, not your ears. The 901's have been around in the same basic configuration for many years. Show me any other speaker that has been around that long! There has to be a reason they have withstood the test of time that no other speaker has been able to do!!!

Estétique indémodable.
Restitution réaliste de la musique.
Dimentions réduites des cabinets .
Sonorité de grandeur nature.

Les Boses 901 VI sont les meilleurs speakers que j`ai utilisé a ce jour. J`ai eu des Eminent technology, klipsch ,Snell ,Kef et MCintosh. Et les 901 les surpassent toutes.
J`utilise un lecteur Micromega solo, un préampli B&K pro10 ainsi qu`un ampli Bryston 4b. Elles sont surtout impressionnantes avec de la musique classique. Les timbales et les pédales d`orgue sont vraiment réalistes.

Extemely dynamic. Handles power with authority! Excellent sound stage. Can be listened to for many hours without fatgue. Powerful low end to about 45hz.

Bass below 45hz needs a subwoofer to eliminate cone doubling, and port noise.

Hi,
I saw your question about the Bose 901 series 1 or 2 and thought I should share with you my own experiences with the 901. My first introduction to them was back with the series 1. I heard them at a friends house who happened to be an engineer at Fermi National Accelerator Labs. This guy was an absolute perfectionist when it came to his audio system. He wasn't satisfied with the low end of any speaker he heard at the time. So he built his own speakers using Electro-voice 30" woofers!. He built a ported enclosure, using the crawl space under his house to get the required cabinet volume behind the speaker so he could tune the port based on the free air resonance of the woofers. He finally finished the project 3 months later. The first time I heard it I was floored! He powered them with a Crown DC300 amp. One day I get a call from him and he told me to get over here right a away. He sits me down in front of these 2 weird looking boxes he had suspended from his ceiling and said, "well I finally found them". He put on a cut from the Missing Link direct disc and my jaw dropped. These speakers sounded so good I though I was dreaming. The low end blew away his 30" masterpiece's which he promptly removed shortly after. From that day on I was after those 901's.

At the time I worked for Jensen Sound labs curve tracing speakers. I have to laugh when I here these Bose bashers on all these websites rant on about things they know very little about. Most all of them say that Jensen made the drivers for the 901 series 1 and 2. Not quite right. Rola made the drivers for Bose in those days who also made the drivers for Jensen. Jensen stopped manufacturing drivers many years before that. Rola manufactured drivers for many other prominent speaker companies of the day. The 901 series 1 and 2 were an excellent speaker in there day, but had real difficulty reaching down below 50 hz. They were also very inefficient. The series 3 was a new rebirth for the 901's. Those so called cheap, junky, toy like drivers are actually extremely high quality transducers! The advent of the helically wound voice coils and oh yes those plastic baskets brought the 901 drivers into a whole new level of precision. Everybody rants on about the cheap plastic baskets, but do they realize that is the only way that Bose could hold the very tight tolerances required for that driver. You can mold plastic to much tighter tolerances than a stamped metal basket could hope to hold. I know this is true because I was a machinist for 25 years. It is stronger, and much less resonant than a stamped basket. When I use to curve trace Jensen drivers you could feel that metal basket flexing all over the place. This brings us to the cheap plastic matrix enclosure. Bose was brilliant making that out of plastic. Again almost resonant free, and plastic gave them the opportunity to make a very complex chamber to route the air flow. Just put your hand on the 901 cabinet while pushing 50-60 hz and tell me what you feel. I'll admit that the ports are not totally silent, but the only time I can here them at all is when I'm driving 250 watts peak power into them on pipe organ music, and then only on the very lowest notes! So the ports actually do a great job raising the efficiency of the speaker while re-enforcing the low end to bring the range down to about 35 hz! There is plenty of output that low.

Back to those cheap drivers that can't reproduce bass very well. The 901 can move enormous amount of air, and because of the matrix enclosure there movement has been greatly reduced thus reducing the distortion from the very large excursions of the previous non ported systems. By using the 9 cones back wave to re-enforce the forward motion of the drivers, Bose doubled there bass output. Setup properly and given enough clean power, the 901's are capable of very impressive tight clean bass output. And I'll tell you, these speakers will put that amp to bed before running out of clean undistorted sound. The 901's are not the finest sound speakers on the market, but they are certainly one of them. So many people bash this speaker, and say some of the most ridiculous things about them, that quite frankly I'm embarrassed for them. They are an embarrassment to this board and the community.

Remember that engineer friend from Fermi Labs. He could go on with more facts about what Bose did right with the 901's than you or the Bose bashers would care to listen to. He just sold his 901 series 1 for the series 6 about a year ago. He sees no reason to look any further. So go for it. buy the series 6. There are many good worthwhile improvements in them. Just remember to set them up properly and feed them as much power as you like there practically indestructible! How many people can say that about there speakers? Must be those cheap plastic drivers. I am in no way affiliated with Bose. These are purely my opinions. Good luck!

associated components:

spatial preampl;ifier (2 channel stereo preamp) (purch. 1979)
brb 120 amplifier (60 wpc x 2 channels) (purch. 1981)
motorola dcp501 tripath receiver (100wpc x 5 channels) (purch 2005)
sony cd / md player
sony am / fm tuner
18 g. solid core copper wire from lowe's hardware store ($.11 cents per foot. this wire is sonically invisible)
acoustic research cheapo rca interconnects (from a tds processor..good value, but not quite as good as (say) $100 audioquests, but they are not irritating and mostly invisible)
acoustic research tds processor
the bose clearly are more revealing of source components upstream than any other speaker i have ever owned. apart from that, they are (properly set up), imbued with the best qualities of dq10, electrostatics, and cone speakers in a small package...
i used to own 901 series 3s (70s) and sold them (80s). i remember the trebles to be rolled off...the series 6s seem much better in every way...
too many (recent) audiophile approved products seem very impressive at first listen, but long term they do not hold their appeal (exaggerated detail at the expense of the whole, sound effects, sizzle and boom, gross freq response inaccuracies). i believe properly engineered old components / technology can produce a nice sound which competes with today's products at a small fraction of the price...the bose seem to stay out of the way and allow the music to express itself...audiofile speakers frequently display a sonically impressive and intrusive personality, and this distracts from long term enjoyment...audiofile approved components tend to focus your thoughts on upgrading, changing, etc...and this is not fulfilling...most audiofiles i know of rarely keep their speakers/electronics more than 1-2 years before replacing them. it seems more fulfilling to find components that you can enjoy for 20+ years and not feel the need to read the monthly rags with their SOTA "compoent of the month" and implicit argument that audio is somehow advancing...i would suggest that tripath/digital amps and nxt represent possible advancements, because they provide nice sound at (almost free) low pricing...
a good sounding $130 tripath amp is a load of fun . i think the nxt technologies have the potential to be "maggie killiers" for $20.00 plus the cost of large art poster board and lots of experimentation and listening. in some ways the 901s remind me of the acoustat 1+1s (coherent, low distortion midrange) minus electrostatic complications (cost, size, sensitivity, placement, reliability)
i think their concept of value-pricedfull range crossoverless electronically eq'd drivers without passive crossover compoents is sonically valid; i challenge those individuals who state they can built a 901 clone in their garage for (say) $175 (for drivers and enclosures) to prove it.

first impressions:

the bose speakers are puzzling at first; the sound is bassy and boomy, and the mids are echoey...the trebles are rolled off...the sound is pleasing, but after a while it seems like you are listening to a wurlitzer juke box placed in another room with the door ajar... not good...
i am experiencing buyers remorse....but i am still within the 30 day return period...
the speakers are initially set up 12" from the back wall, and 12" from each side wall. the back and side walls are brick...the room is very live, lacking furniture.
after 2 days i move the bose several inches away from the back and side walls, and the sound seems to be greatly improved...they are now listenable at least.
i'm thinking they just need to break in a little more...so i run fm through them 24/7 for a week at medium levels (85 db)...
they now seem more linear, and the boxiness, boominess, and slow trebles seem to be much improved...they are much more imvolving to listen to...
switching from the spatial/brb combo to the motorola was interesting...i have never heard any speaker change this much from switching out the amplification...
the brb has a much more powerful sound, but the moto tripath (fully warmed up) is more involving and linear...
the next change is to use the plug the cd into the spatial, which runs thru the motor rca inputs. this is the best sound yet. i have never heard this much sound quality change through any other speaker...
patiently experimenting with electronics, room placement, and allowing the speakers a little time to break in with reward the listener with good sound.
these speakers will easily sound bad without the extra effort.
i have no issues with their pricing. i prefer to pay for canadian labor rather than save a few dollars for chinese slave labor. even at 1.3 large, these speakers are low priced; todays' audiofile approved $20k+ (typical) speakers seem obscenely priced...nothing is worth that kind of money...compare this with purchasing a brand new toyota prius for cash. there is no amount of engineering and driver cost that justifies $20k.

(i'm sure all the bose bashers out there will appreciate this review)...
it is a joy to own (long term) and enjoy decent (cheap and out of fashion) products that audiofiles will look down ont...and amusing to think about those individuals who read the monthly rags and audio websites for the newest expensive component reviews, and others who lay awake at night thinking about modifying (read: trashing) their audiofile approved components to get better sound. the bose clearly are more revealing of source components upstream than any other speaker i have ever owned. with proper set up they are imbued with the best qualities of dahlquist dq10, electrostatics, and other transparent cone speakers in a small package...poor selection of source components and poor room placement will easily hide the good sound these speakers are capable of...the only minus i can place against the speaker is that the trebles are clearly not as good as what you can get from a ribbon or electrostat. i've listened to many other audiophile approved speakers, and the 901s have the best long term listenability. i have no desire to get rid of them (ever)...and i am very picky about sound quality...they are very musical, and invoke positive emotions unique compared against others.

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bose has excellent 800 customer service, and i expect they will stay in business for many years...their upgrade/trade in policy is also excellent.

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i have listened to: (owned, or more than 25 hours exposure in familar environments):

nxt soundpads adhesed onto large poster board (own)
radio shack 2a electrostats (own)
bose 901 3 (owned)
dahlquist dq10 (own)
acoustat 1+1
jbl 4655
altec 604-g (own)
magneplaner (various models with + w/o ribbons)
apogee (various models
carver ribbons
quad esl 63
martin logan electrostatics.

Incredible sound all around
The music should move you to tears...
Extreeme durabilty and power handling that is NOT hype.
Sensitivity levels that be-speak this strange design.

Application. Takes some work and the right sound wall to get the optimum potential of these speakers to surface. They tend to crave lots of wattage.

I have an interesting proposal for those of you that have Bose 901's
First, make sure that you have them hooked up correctly to the equalizer.
Next, make sure they are facing the right direction, as per the owners manual.
Proper wall and ceiling spacing are also a must. Download the song- Around the way Girl, by LLCool J. Give the song a play on your speakers and tell me what you think...Not bad for 4 1/2" drivers huh?You can't deny that these speakers have some amazing qualities for what they are, after listening to this song in particular. "THE 901 CAN PRODUCE DEEPER BASS THAN ANY OTHER SPEAKER I HAVE EVER LISTENED TO" Hobby Bladet of LYD & TONE, Denmark... These speakers seem to be almost bulletproof. Can someone please tell me of another speaker that has a 5 year transferable warranty with a power handling set at unlimited wattage?

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Listened extensivley to many high end brands costing up to triple the price of new 901's None were superior in my opinion. Most were inferior in realism by a long measure.

1. Look good.
2. Sound better.
3. Make audiophiles reach for the "Shakti Hallograph Soundfield Optimizers". Okay, that's not fair, but you HAVE to Google them. Makes anechoic living rooms look like they were Einstein's idea.

1. Not really suitable for front channel use home theater applications.
2. They're "dated" *gasp!* Yes, like LP records...which aren't suitable for home theater applications either by the way, so just chunk 'em all in the trash before somebody...SAYS SOMETHING.

If I hear one more reference to Bose's "great marketing" of 901's I'm going to scream. I've never even seen an ad for Bose 901's. Perhaps one of the resident "audiophiles" can direct me to one. Oh yeah, when writing this review I decided to select "AudioPhile" instead of Audio Enthusiast as the "style that best describes" me. I'm feeling my powers of perception, along with my nerve, increasing with each passing second.
In and interesting break from the tired "No highs, no lows, it must be Bose" canard it seems now 901's are "very bright", "midrangey", AND "boomy"! All at the same time. That's a new and sweeping criticism I haven't heard before. Mine definitely aren't boomy or very bright. In fact I've never heard any speaker criticized for suffering from all three of these thing at the same time before. Im not sure it's even physically possible. I'm not even sure that a speaker that exhibits all three of these characteristic is suffering at all. Someone so experienced in critical listening to high end audio equipment would do well to elaborate if he or she wishes to be understood. If that is the elaborate version do us all a favor and check the "casual listener" box in the future.
Another point: Putting a set of Bose 901's in a listening room that is as acoustically dead as possible is not an "impeccable" setup, if that was done. Far from it (Neither is a basement workshop i guess but it should be an improvement). In fact it's the perfect illustration of the disconnect between what people want and what audiophiles want people to want. It's not the direct/reflecting concept that's bogus. Turning ones living room into an anechoic chamber is what's bogus. Speakers that can't handle a reflecting surface? Hardly seems objectively worse that ones that can. I'm not moving into a rubber room and dancing aroung with shakti hallograph sticks just to rock out. It's just not true that the mark of a good quality speaker is one that will fill up an acoustially dead room. Acoustically dead rooms may be good for recording and for critically comparing directional speakers, but out here in the real world, music fans aren't doing their listening in anechoic chambers. They are normally doing it in living spaces with some reflective walls. Walls that are good for putting Bose 901's in front of. If I have to listen to a speaker in a virtually anechoic room to hear the so-called improvements, it isn't worth any additional cost..to me. When most people, outside of a recording studio - myself included - want to critically listen to recordings uncolored by room acoustics they use headphones. As far as a selfstyled audio snob being able to endure the crap sound that supposedly comes from 901's because they only cost $50.00; I couldn't have made my point better. They don't sound better, he just feels better. That's the result of marketing, people, and not by Bose either. Perhaps if he had been given them as a gift he would be swooning in audio nirvana.

1. Power handling
2. Bose name will impress your clueless friends and neighbors

1. Sound
2. Price
3. Design
4. Aesthetics

These are fancy sounding speakers. However, fancy and good are not the same in this case. Bose products tend to be very bright, midrangey, and boomy. They also have great marketing and sales. This combination of factors means that the average person will hear the 901's and think they sound absolutely amazing. That's fine, but you have to remember that the average person hasn't experienced true hi-fi audio. I'm a serious follower of high-end audio, and although I'm not made out of money, I know what sounds good and what can't compare to the stuff that sounds good. For $50, I'm pretty happy with these speakers [duh]. Maybe if I had bought them new I'd pay $300 for them. Maybe. I'll admit, that these speakers can sound decent in certain conditions, with certain types of music. However, compared to my Thiels and Boston VR960's [which cost within $500 on either side of the price point that the 901's sell for new], these speakers are total garbage. However, I've also heard many speakers that make my speakers sound like total garbage. That puts it in perspective, however one can't forget the fact that the products which far surpass my current setup also cost thousands more, whereas the 901's and my Thiels were rather close to eachother in price. I'm a traditional sterophile. I'm not interested in hearing about your 20 gazillion watt Carver power amp, your solid-state japanese reciever, or any sort of home theatre system no matter how glorified it might be. In auditioning the 901's I used an Adcom GCD-575 cd player through a modified Jolida 202. I know it's nothing amazing, but with other speakers, even cheaper one's, it's made some far better sounds than it did with the 901's. And yes, I did use the active equalizer and I followed the setup guidelines impeccably. And it still sounded like crap. The direct/reflecting concept is completely bogus but it does get the average listener to shell out $1200 on a substandard set of speakers, because they construe the boomy sound as being more realistic, more hi-fi. My listening room is as acoustically dead as possible. I have recording studio funny-foam on the walls to remove any sound coloration caused by the room. This means that all of the sound comes from the speakers, and the mark of a good quality speaker is one that will fill up a completely dead room like a music hall. There are speakers that cost less than the 901's and can do it better than they can. One of the only things I appreciate about these speakers is their solid construction and ability to handle power. The Grateful Dead could have built their Wall of Sound out of these and I'm sure it would have worked very well. However, in a critical listening environment they simply do not perform. My reason for buying them [keep in mind how much I paid for them], is that in addition to being an audio snob, I'm also a musical instrument builder, and I needed a pair of speakers that could make big sound to use in my woodworking shop. The system I have in my workshop is as nice as what most people would have in their living room. I'm going to run these through a 200 wpc Adcom GFA-555 II power amplifier with an Adcom preamp and a Denon CD player. As far as I'm concerned, these speakers are appropriate for a basement shop at a $50 used price, and not much more than that.

Customer Service

I don't know, and the only way I'd find out is if I sent them an email with the subject "Why does your flagship speaker sound like crap?" which I am tempted to do, but don't need to since I already know the answer

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Boston Acoustics VR960
Thiel CS 1.2
Various Cambridge Soundworks tiny speakers that sounded almost as bad

very spacious sound,A great sounding speaker,very natural

placement of speaker,may be challengeing sometimes.

The famous Bose 901's series 6 loudspeaker,this speaker has been conversated in so many different ways outside the norm.This speaker has been around since 1968,not to many things have change about this speaker' internally it has,there have been so many updates done to this speaker, sinse 1968.I'm not going to go over all the updates done to this speaker,if intrested about the updates go to (Bose.Com),so many different speakers have come thru my front door, that has been purchased by me, such as Klipsch,Mtx,Sansui,Pioneer,Jbl,Cerwin Vega,and Bose such as the 401's,601's series |||,and now the 901's series 6 . You find so many people degrading this speaker,have to admit this speaker isn't for every one. Every one hears sound / music different,you must have the (EQ) to make these speaker perform the way they should,w/out the eq they sound very flat,This speaker must be set up in a corect manner,they should have a wall behind them a hard surface,no type of soft materials at all behind them,also nothing to the left or right of each speaker w/in 18 inches.I have my speaker 10.5 inches in front of my rear wall sound fine to me. People speak on how power hungry this speaker is,I have a 100 watt high current stereo receiver by Denon(DRA 685),it's more than enough pwr., for what listen to.On the average only 35 watts being played in a house @ any given time.,that's pretty loud, believe it or not This speaker gives off a natural sound,not to bassey,just enough ,the mid,and treble give off good sound as well.The clearity of this speaker is unbelieveable,it's so clear ,must remember there's no such thing as a perfect loudspeaker{ no matter what any manufactors says} every loudspeaker has its' pro & cons, from the least exspensive; to the most exsensive speaker. It just depends on you what you want to spend on a speaker.I'm a family man I have bills, kids,car notes etc...... I got these speakers on their installment plan, from Bose so that was to my advantage, no other speaker company have an installment plan, for as I know this is a very good company , they've been around for a long time,great customer service a well known company,no fly by night company so If you're in the market to purchase some speakers audition the Bose 901's series 6. Please don't go to the Bose Outlet, the 901's aren't set proper,try to find someone in your area who have these speakers,to see if they don't mind you auditioning them.This speaker covers your whole wall no sweet spot,don't let 18 4.5 inch,drivers fool you,this speaker is very spacious again a great sounding speaker.very

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