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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Most Amazing Thing I've Ever Seen
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Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 21:24:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 21:24:36 1984
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I was at Bose today and saw a demo of the most amazing thing.  They
showed us an audio/visual type presentation of a new Bose product.  The
first thing I noticed was that the Bose 901s that they were using for
the presentation sounded amazingly good -- a lot better than the ones I
have.  Any way it turned out the product being announced was a portable
stereo, a getto blaster like thing that ways 19 pounds, has a receiver,
tape deck, and speakers built in, and at $649.99 costs a bit more than
your typical getto blaster.

The revolutionary thing about this getto blaster, the audio/visual said,
is that it uses an acoustic wave guide speaker system that allows it to
get amazingly good bass out of a 5" woofer and low power consumption.
At this point I'm filled with doubt and can't imagine that anyone would
pay $650 for a getto blaster.  At the end of the presentation, two
people came out and took apart the 901s to reveal that the 901s were not
901s at all, but really just hollow cases for their getto blaster things
which were inside.  Now I understood.

You could not possibly imagine how good these getto blasters sounded.
They sounded as good as any high fidelity system I have ever heard.  The
bass was strong enough to shake the floor, etc. with no distortion.  It
also has some sort of nifty active equilizer in it that automatically
adjusts the frequency response so that it sounds the same (except for
volume) at any volume.

The bass is only mono, not stereo, but I didn't notice.  The rest is
stereo.  The acoustic wave guide thing works supposedly on the same
principle that makes a pipe organ work.  The woofer is in a tube that is
80" inches long.  The woofer is 20" from one end of the tube and 60"
from the other and radiates in both directions.  The tube is folded in
such a way that it all fits inside the getto blaster, and you'd never
know it is there unless someone told you, or you took the thing apart
and wondered what the maze of plastic is for and why it no longer sounds
good.

Apparently Bose is not going to sell these things through stores, you
have to buy them from Bose direct.  To repeat, these getto blasters are
the most amazing things I've seen in long time.  It's too bad that there
is no way the fidelity of the tape deck or the radio is going to equal
that of the rest of the system (but there is an auxiliary input -- no
turntable preamp though).  They said that within a year these things
will probably come with Sony's mini CD player built in.

Has anyone else heard one of these things?  If you haven't, you should.
You will be AMAZED!
-- 
				-Doug Alan
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				 Nessus@MIT-MC

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