Friends,

An interesting thought crossed my mind last week (when I came across the story of the Bose PAS not being stereo).

The PAS truely doesn't work well with stereo equiptment, BUT here is what I did (and it works ... to an extent)!

The PAS has 3 separate AMPs (one for the Base, one for the top cylinder and one for the bottom cylinder). So if you plug the LEFT and RIGHT outputs (of say TYROS2) into AMP1 and AMP2 the left and right signals do come out separately but as NORTH/UP and SOUTH/DOWN signals!! To appriciate this, you would have to lay down horizontal (like you're asleep).

Now this is the wiered part ... if you place the BOSE horizontally (say on 2 keyboard stands or so) and the towers are at least 3 meters appart (you will have to get some cables to like towers 1 and 2 CORRECTLY), then you do get most of the stereo effect with minimum phase cancellation - but here is the catch. You loose the close to 180 degrees signal spread (left to right), but you now have it North to South ...

kinda like this:-

|
|
+========= +=========| [Sub]
|
|


(top spkr) <-5m-> (bottom spkr with amp)


^
Dispersion is now | (North-South)
v

and not < - >!! (East to West).

Now this layout is also ideal when you have 2 floors (or a balcony above) as the people above now hear everything too.

But what about those to the side?

AJ