Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Most Amazing Thing I've Ever Seen Message-ID: <1218@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 14:11:23 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.1218 Posted: Sat Dec 15 14:11:23 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 05:56:14 EST References: <3309@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 26 A friend of mine at Stereo Review was recently at the Bose press conference announcing their new "Acoustic Wave System" and also spoke very highly of its sound (and he regularly disparages my Bose 901's whenever he visits.) For the record, this is an integrated stereo speaker/tuner/cassette/amplifier, with an AUX input for things like a CD player or a VHS HiFi deck. It is NOT a ghetto blaster, for it does not have a carrying handle and it requires a 120V outlet. Wags have called it a "yuppie blaster" for townhouses and condos with limited space. The Boston Phoenix in its mammoth holiday issue of 12/11 has a very good review of it by Brad Meyer, one of the officers of the Boston Audio Society. Overall, he was very partial to it, but there were some annoying problems: first, its plastic enclosure has almost no shielding, magnetic or electronic. A CD player placed on top of the unit generates some hum (from the CD power supply) and hash (from the CD's RF emissions) in the tuner's output. The tuner is less sensitive than most components available today, and does not have a variable HF-blend circuit as signal strength decreases. Placed on top of a TV, the voice coils produced significant picture distortion. And finally, the integral loudness circuit is calibrated for the tuner and cassette deck; present models have no level-matching circuitry for the AUX input, and thus these signals may sound rather bass-heavy. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA