In Reply to: Kloss Model One posted by RadioBurst on February 20, 2001 at 02:39:30:
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: Kloss Model One
: Anyone ever listen to this new AM/FM radio? I just came across it on the web and was captivated. Simple, great looking cabinet, analog, and said to rival the Bose Wave for speaker performance. This sounds like a pretty hefty claim considering the Waves mystic in the genre of radios this size. The Model One is also MONO, no stereo, but in a unit this size would stereo even be worthwhile? Heres my question to anyone who has this unit or has looked at one...what's the AM/FM reception like? Sound?
I'm a sound engineer and looking at the history of Bose and it's current wave radios, it's not that difficult an achivement as Bose makes it out to be. Anyone with a lick of electronic/acustic know how (like Kloss) could easily rip off or improve on the design..
The brain power of most Boss designs is in acustical processing (before it hit's the speaker) and electronic flow design is not hard to rip off.
I personally have not heard the Model One, but i can imagine it would be a fine product as far as acustics is conserened... I guess my point is The Wave is not a paramount achivment as the public beleives. (in the acustical industry we have a saying, "no highs, no lows, must be Bose".)