901 series 2 speakers

I can't imagine the surrounds on Series II being any good.  I was replacing series II surrounds back in the mid 80's... With that,  I know many who really like 901's for listening around the house, but I don't know of any audiophile that would sit in front of them with real intent of trying to create live music.  

I've always had the 901's so I don't know what I'm missing. and since I'm retired I don't have funds to buy any other speakers. I can say that my phase linear amp did damage 3 of my speakers and I had them repaired. only 1 is still original. also the 1 and 2 series had cloth surrounds. 3 and up had foam which will need replacing after so many years.

No implementation of 901's can emulate a line array and modern line arrays have nothing at all in common with them. Stacking a bunch of boxes doesn't make a line array. 

kosst, yeah, true.

But that was then, and it's certainly now.  It could have been done, something like it did get done, and that's what lead to what's done now.

Progressions happen with remarkable frequency. ;)

Darkness into the light, only to find we're still in the dark. *L*

Line arrays evolved from the stuff Bear Owsley was doing with the Wall of Sound that The Grateful Dead toured with. Contrary to what a lot of companies hock as line arrays, they're defined by a set of charactistics that cannot be achieved by cones and domes alone. Before line arrays, speaker were arranged to emulate point sources, usually poorly. Meyer Sound has a wealth of white papers available on the subjects of point source and line arrays.