Many years ago I was involved in competitive car audio and helped friends build/tune high end systems as a hobby. I can’t say I’m really in to it any longer though I still build systems every now and then piece by piece, but the same principals still apply today.

While I’ve never bought any Bose audio equipment before, I’ve always been fairly unimpressed with them other than the marketing campaign they’ve duped many, many people with. If it works for you, that’s great and I’m glad you’re happy with it, but personally I think you’re getting something that is way overpriced and sounds pretty terrible to the trained ear. For the same price you could get something that sounds much better which is higher quality,etc.

Although I haven’t listened to anything Bose for awhile other than a pair of headphones, the reason people think they sound good is because they put out a large quantity of sound rather than quality. They put out a lot of the frequencies which are easy for the human ear to hear, which to me give Bose equipment a hollow sound. The midrange sounds hollow, and the bass is pretty much non-existant (especially if you’ve ever heard a good subwoofer with plenty of power in a sealed enclosure).

I’ve seen quite a few other articles on the web about why Bose is not as good as everyone thinks it is, but today I came across this article with links to all kinds of resources which elaborate on why Bose is a bad deal other than my personal opnion.