Bose = marketing triumphing of reality like many things these days. Without the lead weights in the base of their gear they felt just as cheap as some WunHungLo brand chinese junk, the lead weights actually made them feel premium. They might have had some other benefits but im pretty sure they were by accident.
The only thing Bose had going for them back in the early 2k's where their multi-room stuff, they were way ahead of Sonos etc in making it easy for Joe Public to have it and use it.
Oh I don't know. I think Bose have got the sound about right and the power because whenever I go to Currys, our biggest distributor and I get to play with the competitors to their gear in there, Bose always come out on top for sound quality etc until I compare them against my special ones which are no longer available, sadly because with the right marketing behind them they would blow Bose out of the water.
Bose haven't been worth the powder to blow them to hell since they made only speakers. I have fond rubber-cement-intoxicated memories of re-ringing the drivers in a pair of 901s (long ago sold to a mate) and decades later a pair of 501 Series IIIs (right now in a saran-wrapped cardboard box in the closet) and a pair of 301s cuurently being used in the bedroom.
My favorite balance of sound has always come from a BiAmp/PolyAmp configuration; you just can't get enough separation of frequencies from a passive crossover. I still have my favorite "single" speakers; a pair of AR M6 modular speakers designed from the ground up for BiAmp drive. They've seen quite a pounding in the last 20 something years and are right now saran-wrapped in storage right next to the 501s awaiting the time when I have time and money at the same time to rebuild the enclosures due to the infamous "split seam" failure these are known for. One of these days I'll find a set of M1s and MC1s to complete the "Holographic Imaging" system they were famous for; I did quite like the balance from the 301s as rears though.
That said... the Sennheiser 25 studio monitor headphones have been the de-facto benchmark for sound since I was a teenager; unbelievably, when they re-vamped them into the HD25s they only got better. Sure you CAN get better for more money; but you can't be guaranteed of anything as good for the money anywhere else. IMO, YMMV, DQMOT, WTFBBQSAUCE, DILLIGAF?
https://en-uk.sennheiser.com/on-ear-dj-headphone-hd25
^^^ stuff on something produced well i.e. Elizium by Fields of the Nephilim ... or The Division Bell by Pink Floyd ... then wonder why the hell you bought speakers.
Had my pair for 13 years now and haven't found anything close to them.
Didn't I just say that?
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Yes, I had a pair of Sennheiser's the same and they are very good, but you can't walk around or do anything else when wearing them and because they are closed ear type, also block out anyone trying to talk to you or the phone ringing, or more importantly, the bloody postman ringing the doorbell to deliver more TEA toys ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif.pagespeed.ce._hfWAz_QHO.gif)
I agree with the music as well, I love the Division Bell, Dark Side of the Moon, In fact most things by Pink Floyd, Genesis, Phil Collins to name a few and also really good pipe organ music as well and you get some real rib tickling Bass from a good pipe organ along with some excellent treble and mid range because unlike modern organs, pipe organs actually played the proper instruments via the keyboard as well wind through the pipe notes.
There was a famous garage in Diss, Norfolk that had their car showroom built around a massive Wurlitzer Theatre Organ http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/5092 I have had the pleasure of hearing this being played for my Mother and I a few years ago and they used to clear the cars out and put loads of chairs out and have concert days with famous organists playing the instrument, always a sell a out.
Sure you can... there are dozens of true audiophile-quality IR and RF mobile wireless systems on the market now. No reason in the world NOT to use the headphones you love, anywhere you want. Of course, headphones of this quality do tend to obviate the many shortcomings of iPods, etc... they sound best used in a dock where you don't EXPECT the greatest sound.
I also abused/was abused by Floyd... of course, if you can remember the experience, you weren't really there.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA... home to St Paul's Cathedral which is known worldwide as one of the finest pipe organ installations of all time. Holiday and Easter services there were acoustically a "religious experience", even to the non-aligned such as myself and my mother. But my youth was misspent hanging out at the Hollywood Theater in Dormont during the time when live re-enactments of the Rocky Horror Picture Show were accompanied by their theater organ. it was an amazing instrument in its own right; part built-in construction and part mechanically operated "dais" which rose from the center of the orchestra pit like something out of Star Wars.
Talk about intoxication...
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we were half-wasted and half-naked pretty much from Friday night 'til Monday morning every other weekend for almost two years...
All of them have problems which is why the Rigol keeps appearing on the bench. It just works, until it doesn’t, and then I’ll shout at telonic until it does again ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xsmiley.gif.pagespeed.ic.R8GFI-pF6f.png)
I love analogue scopes. I don’t love the problems you get when you need to use one and something goes phut or drifts or just stops working.
Thing with Teks is they have massive resale value. The 465B I found at my parents house works perfectly. Turned out I had it on NORM trigger. Doh schoolboy error. Already shifted it for £150!
I have already spent considerably more than the money I got back on a transceiver though. SWMBO has no idea how much they cost. Phew. Up one Yaesu 857D. Perhaps she will google it ![Scared :scared:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/scared.gif.pagespeed.ce.oZptHNcbsD.gif)
Yeah... but the prices on Tek fluctuate so wildly. I just know that if I go to sell one of my working 2465s it'll be that day and it'll close for like 175.00. I'll take them both to the grave for that. Might take the "parts donor" too, just in case I need to fix one of them in the hereafter.
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Have you
seen the CatDisplay? An interesting bit of Open-Source gear with a full color dashboard for units like your new toy there.
Just bagged this crusty decade box for a song, it'll join my home brew one.
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Also bagged a remote for the Bose SoundDock I was given and for the cost of the extra postage, the seller is going to chuck in the non-working SoundDock it came from, hence selling the remote, yes, result!!
winner winner, chicken dinner. ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif.pagespeed.ce._hfWAz_QHO.gif)
So you still haven't told us... which model did you get?
My HP 3311A Function Generator miraculously found its way home after being borrowed for 25+ years.
The gentleman that had borrowed it had been cleaning out his garage and found some junk electronics that he thought I might be interested in. When he had borrowed it we both had lived in a different state, and currently again both live in the same town.
He did not remember borrowing it at all, and I only barely remembered the loan. The clincher was the Bourns Knobpot that I had installed some 30 years ago for the DC offset.
It arrived home last night in excellent shape with a lot of surface dust covering it. A bit of cleaning and it powered up just fine with all buttons working!
Amazingly on my test equipment shelve there was an empty space!
above some HP 5300 series counters that nothing else would fit in, but was just the perfect size for the HP 3311A.
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Heh... an interesting story of TEA and the old adage "Never a lender or a borrower be." Or maybe more like "Return of the Prodigal Signal Generator"...?
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That reminds me of my second 2465; bought on eBay when I still lived in the Finger Lakes region of New York for a song back in the day when we had thousands of users.
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It worked, had 2 sets of Tek probes with barely expired calibration and came to my door for $312 US.
Several years later I found a calibration checklist inside when I was forced to open it up and repair the fan; it indicated the unit had belonged to one of the divisions of NASA's JPL. I often imagined it being used by some engineer working on subsystems for the Space Shuttle; it was the right vintage to have been deployed when they revamped the program after Challenger.
A decade laster, after traveling to both coasts and all up & down the Eastern Seaboard, it finds its way back to Houston again with me; less than 20 miles from Space City where it began its life. We've been to NASA several times since we moved here; I may actually have seen the lab it was deployed in.
Prodigal indeed.
mnem
Yes, you may touch it.