Hmm, ok…I have one set up in my listening room right now, I don’t really hear any issues in the FR. Maybe I’ll fire up REW and take a few measurements.
Can you share photos of those JBL surrounds? How do you like them? Always wondered about those.
Well, I took a couple of measurements of my Evolve 50 from about 5’ away and 5’ from the floor. On-axis and 45 deg off-axis:
Very impressive dispersion I think! I invented
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I have a habit of listening to “less room.” Although my speakers (SEOS24+15") are smaller than 4722.
I don't know how (for ears))) the two tweeters will interfere.
For "normal" 2ways crossed below 1k about ten feet or more is ok IME.
With the orange and red amps it should look great and deserves a quality paint job! Or vinyl-wrap must be very careful.
I have 901s series I, II, and IV. with mini DSPs from Deer Creek preset with Bose EQ curves. The IVs sound very good, and she has them in her sewing room, which is fairly large. The others are not currently in use. I always thought the 901s were exceptionally good on the natural human voice. Things like choral music, not closely miked.Thanks for sharing. What’s interesting is that it’s just “eight 3.5-inch neodymium high-frequency drivers and a proprietary waveguide that provides an impressive 120° of horizontal coverage and 40° of vertical coverage”.
We used to laugh at soundbars and their small woofers, but maybe the tech is getting to the point where we can do a lot more interesting things.
Do you just have one? Most people think that the ultra wide horizontal dispersion is bad for home listening but maybe with them in stereo works fine.
I have tried doing a nearfield measurement and running standard Dirac versus just doing normal 9 point measurement at the listening point and doing a full bandwidth correction. I like the latter.
In my particular room which just happens to be “perfect” for the 901’s, an *electrical* measurement of the factory equalizer versus Dirac with a 10 dB style Harman boost gave me this:
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The Bose 901 Series VI sounds better than it has any right to, especially when size and appearance is a concern. I think that the 901’s sounded poor because
A) the equalizer was seen as optional and not understood as a requirement by many. A lot were sold on looks not performance.
B) the older equalizers could overload with high input voltage and work best with low input voltage and high gain amplifiers.
C) there is a lot of sighted bias. Think about the most famous speaker designers you know of the late 20th century. How many of them were people of color? The 901’s came out in the late 1960s and Boston public schools would still fight over desegregation years later in the early 70’s!
D) Because Bose didn’t publish measurements and they sued Consumer Reports (which was justified since the author had a conflict of interest in that he was trying to commercialize his own speaker at the time, instructed the review panel to pick the speaker that matched the reference sound as opposed to the speaker they preferred), people assumed that the 6 generations were largely cosmetic other than the sealed vs. ported, and magazines weren’t enthusiastic about reviewing them.
I will be sending the “901 VI ver 2” To Amir. I am trying to convince him to break his tradition of only testing in mono.
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Keeping in mind I'm super picky with speakers and will call out anything that bothers me at all, I doubt most people would care about what I consider my only complaint.
Well, everyone at the party...the neighbours, not so much
The LS50 in the recordings sound 'nice', and it is just a binaural recording so is hardly the last word on the matter, but they have that loudspeaker sound. There is something about the immediacy of the 4722 that sounds more true to life, probably from less room vs more direct sound, while at the same time it has a characteristic sound of its own.
I think this site has explained something that I encountered bu couldn’t explain.Well, everyone at the party...the neighbours, not so much
The LS50 in the recordings sound 'nice', and it is just a binaural recording so is hardly the last word on the matter, but they have that loudspeaker sound. There is something about the immediacy of the 4722 that sounds more true to life, probably from less room vs more direct sound, while at the same time it has a characteristic sound of its own.
I often feel that home speakers tend to 'fall apart' with sound coherence at lower levels than I would like. I am not sure this is distortion as much as it is too much room being added when you turn up the volume. I imagine part of the immediacy and clarity of the 4722 is, low distortion aside, the direct nature of the sound.
But....and it is a big but, do you want those speakers in your room?
