Could someone help me identify these speakers? 80s/early 90s Bose

[Tinco]

Hi, I think I just got a sweet deal on these, got them for 10 euro at the second hand shop. The lady at the counter couldn't find the brand so she just tagged on the default speaker price

They sound pretty good, but they're my first high-end brand speakers so I'd like to know what kind of speakers I could compare them with.

So the design looks 80s/early 90s to me. Text on the front says:

10kHz, 1/3 octave
horizontal plan polar pattern
syncom(r) computer tested speaker
by Bose

on the back it says:

5 year warranty
syncom computer tested speaker

impedance 8 ohms

power handling capacity for
speech and music 10 to 50 watts

serial number
254485

engineered by bose corporation, u.s.a.
114718

I hope anyone knows anything about them, opinions would be very welcome too!

 

[sregor]

Best guess is Interaudio. Bose had several brands of "limited distribution" conventional speakers - the only ones I remember were Interaudio and studiocraft. I believe the Interaudio brand was distributed in Europe and England.

 

[Tinco]

Ah thanks for the hint! I actually got impatient and entered every bose product line from wikipedia into google image search and still found squat, this explains that

 

[jazzmans]

Never seen those before, but I'd say early eighties. the Syncom computer began its use in the early seventies, if I remember right. (others here know way more then I do about bose) by the nineties, they were aggressively marketing the acoustimass crap.

do they sound any good?

(edit)

they're an Interaudio model. same tweeter, same tweeter waveguide, same funky 'dispersion' plot. different port location, but similar.

 

[jazzmans]

Think I found 'em

Sonic Art is the name they were sold under.

http://www.speakerrepairshop.com/index.php?action=article&aid=2967&lang=EN

 

[Tinco]

Alright, I think "Syncom Computer Tested Speaker" is the only name anyone refers to them by, and besides pictures of loudspeakers that look like this one there seems to be no other information or opinions on it. Apparently they are literally 'unremarkable' speakers

 

[Tinco]

Hey thanks for looking, I think they sound pretty good, but they are currently competing with a very weird RFT speaker (http://ifatwww.et.uni-magdeburg.de/~madaus/boxentext/b3010t.html) and a Logitech Z-5500 set.