Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Most Amazing Thing I've Ever Seen Message-ID: <3309@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 21:24:36 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3309 Posted: Fri Dec 14 21:24:36 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 02:32:17 EST Distribution: net.audio Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 52 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 mit-eddie!nessus Nessus@MIT-MC "What does 'I' mean"?