Want to buy: Bose 901... Cheap

madmax
madmax Posts: 12,434
edited October 2003 in Flea Market
Anyone got any 901's on the cheap?

madmax
Vinyl, the final frontier...

Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2003
    I think I saw some v1 beaters at a pawn shop here for $75 - rough, but complete.

    Want me to see if they are still there?
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2003
    YES! Be sure to look at the surrounds if you do. I wouldn't want to pay any more than that. Plus shipping obviously.
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,399
    edited October 2003
    If the surrounds are in bad shape you can get replacements from.....

    www.simplyspeakers.com
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,415
    edited October 2003
    what is he up to this time?? :p
    Dodd - Battery Preamp
    Monarchy Audio SE100 Delux - mono power amps
    Sony DVP-NS999ES - SACD player
    ADS 1230 - Polk SDA 2B
    DIY Stereo Subwoofer towers w/(4) 12 drivers each
    Crown K1 - Subwoofer amp
    Outlaw ICBM - crossover
    Beringher BFD - sub eq

    Where is the remote? Where is the $%#$% remote!

    "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us have...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,399
    edited October 2003
    He is going to put the superrior bose full range woofers in his SRS 1.2TL for better quality sound :p
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • bdaley6509
    bdaley6509 Posts: 1,167
    edited October 2003
    Actually, he should do what I did, and stack the Bose on top of the 1.2's for enhanced imaging and 3d spaciousness. Nothing beats a great stack.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2003
    Originally posted by bdaley6509
    Actually, he should do what I did, and stack the Bose on top of the 1.2's for enhanced imaging and 3d spaciousness. Nothing beats a great stack.

    A little depth maybe? Actually I hear that Bose is pretty awesome. I'm planning on replacing my 1.2's with 901's.

    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • bdaley6509
    bdaley6509 Posts: 1,167
    edited October 2003
    I was just joking....I hope you are too:)
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,399
    edited October 2003
    I have been told the 901 was completely ground shattering AWESOME!
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • har_navalta
    har_navalta Posts: 957
    edited October 2003
    I sold my Bose 901 series VI special edition few years ago with
    ten years warranty at the Brick Store. Replaced them with
    the 1.2TL's.

    Sold it for $950.00 U.S. dollars

    I am not going back...
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2003
    One very serious consideration when you buy speakers you wish to keep for a long period of time: RUBBER SURROUNDS!!! Almost all the Bose 901's out there need the surrounds replaced. It can be done by an amature but really, who wants to do that sort of thing to 20 some drivers. That could take a week of hard work! Polk uses rubber surrounds which do not rot. Some of the oldest polks are starting to have a glue problem if they get jolted but lets face it, after 20 plus years the things would have been junked long ago if they had the foam surrounds.

    Any word on these Russman?
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,399
    edited October 2003
    It took me 2 hours to do 2 10 inch woofers on the advents, the Bose have what? 16? 16 8 inch full rangers or something like that?
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2003
    Chuck,

    They were gone, and nothing else of any real interest was there.

    Trey,

    The 901 uses 1 forward firing, and 8 rear firing 4.5 inch FR drivers per cab.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,399
    edited October 2003
    *blink blink blink*

    That must have been...

    1) A very ugly speaker
    2) A very BIG and UGLY speaker
    3) A really messed up sound
    4) A good sound that sounded totally fake....

    OR

    5) Just Bose!

    Either way, that many woofers, foam surrounds.....I'd have to be drunk and half dead to make that purchase. Holy crap!
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2003
    Well anyway, thanks a lot russman! I guess I'll probably find a pair on ebay. I appreciate the look see!!! Actually, the 901's were my first favorite speaker. A club I frequented had 30 plus pairs and a nice sub to match with them. (the first sub I had ever seen, back in the late seventies). They had the first 3000 watt tri-amplified setup I had ever seen. I am thinking a pair of 901's will be nice in the work shop, remembering old times and such. Truthfully, this was the first, last and only club that I ever went to that was concerned with supplying high quality sound. The bose was an excellent choice for them in that the sound was good at every table, every where. Just a different era I guess.
    Thanks again,
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2003
    With proper equalization, via the active eq - or a simple 10-bander of your own, they aren't bad. Worth the new retail price, no.

    Another thing, they will take a beating and TONS of power. I'd have em in the garage/shop rig anyday (for the right price).
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,399
    edited October 2003
    Under 50 dollars right? ;)
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2003
    You are grating on me Sid... :D
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,399
    edited October 2003
    Haha, sorry.

    Russ said that garage speakers should be under 50 dollars and should be hooked to a half working receiver/cd player combo that has the name plates ripped off ;)
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2003
    I never mentioned $50, or a receiver/cd player with cosmetic or mechanical issues.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,399
    edited October 2003
    escuse me excuse me.....

    That was Troy.....
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2003
    Well,
    I found a pair of 901 V5 on audiogon with Hoosiers' help. Not as cheap as I was looking for ($500) but they were in almost mint shape. Once I get them I'll be able to say I have the best. :D Should be fun to play with.
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,124
    edited October 2003
    There are a couple of guys I know with 901's that they picked up overseas years ago......

    I don't think they sound awful. Not accurate but musical in thier own way. They definately don't warrant the new price but I'd have a pair for the garage or spare rig.

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,576
    edited October 2003
    Madmax - Cool man...I tell you what man that damn Hoosier is everywhere searching for deals... :D

    Hoosier - I am getting some music together for you, I haven't forgot.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited October 2003
    back in the 80's I remembered got mesmerized by the sound of 901. Its secrets lied with the equalizer/freq. expander box that came with it. In fact, it was the reason why 901 sounds great on the low end. Without the eq. box, it doesn't sound half as good.
    I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2003
    This pair comes with the EQ. OK, so here is what I'm thinking. Polk SDA's sound awesome if the material is properly mixed (old or new material). These 901's may really shine with the lesser than optimum mixes when compared with the SDA's. Lets face it, when nothing is going on in the mix, the SDA's just kinda sit there and die. I am looking for a secondary means for playing some of the do-nothing material. You know, great songs but inferior abilities throughout getting it onto the media.
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2003
    Hoosier is an A#1 great guy with a pulse on the deals. He has helped me a lot of times and I really respect his opinions and appreciate his help.
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited October 2003
    just a small hijack here... but, I received the schematics for the Counterpoint and I'm ready to roll. That said, I'll be burried in the cave for an entire winter. Get ready gang!

    Twin:p
    ***WAREMTAE***
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