"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...

"Peter Sammon" wrote in message
...
http://www.epinions.com/content_3779895428

I guess from the beginning of time itself humanity has shown its
strengths and weaknesses sometimes with very little subtlety. Certainly
we are a breed of beings quite capable of love, compassion, honesty,
integrity, good-hearted humor, good will, bravery and self sacrifice.
Unfortunately this very same breed is quite comfortable at times with
hatred, greed, lying, sarcasm, snobbishness, cheating, ignorance,
prejudice, cowardice and selfishness.

proud trademarks of the lowly common Bose basher.

Peter,
Your thinking has not caught up with the times. Back in 1968, the Bose
901 provided an ad-hoc form of surround sound, which was a craved-after
novelty at the time. But by 1987, electronic methods of emulating the room
acoustics of performance venues became widespread, obsoleting the
crudities
of using room reflections in a room which has no relationship to the
recording space.

Loudspeakers made by everybody else became far better as well. The
901's
used cones for treble frequencies; so did everybody else. Now everybody
else
use high frequency drivers that far outperform the cones of the 901.

Bose has become infamous for accumlating obstructive patents,
exploiting
the weakness of the U.S. Patent Office in examining for prior art. This,
and
their hunger for lawsuits, which you have mentioned, has given Bose a
deserved reputation for a nasty corporate personality.

You have every right to savour and enjoy your Bose 901's. Technically,
they are junk, and you are expressing misplaced feelings of love and
devotion for a money-grubbing corporation that would be better directed
toward other human beings, ie., wife, children, family, relations, and
people you admire.

You should force yourself to take the 901's to a consignment shop.
They
will not get you what you think they are worth, but it will be the first
step toward personal renewal. Like many other people, you are prisoner of
an
idea. You owe it to yourself to bust out of that prison. The world of
audio
engineering has advanced many times since you last fell in love, and you
deserve your freedom.

Very well said Robert, you write with flair and wit.

Perhaps others reading this would care to follow up a few drive unit
manufacturers who haven't stood still either, Visaton, Monacor, Fostex and
Tangband. The names into Google will bring up the sites, look for their wide
or full range units.

Jem