Well its like this to me. Most makers of large speakers use woofers, midranges, and tweeters because for low distortion sound you need speakers designed for a relatively narrow frequency range (unless you are talking about the various forms of planar speakers) Bose uses a bunch of midrange speakers and a lot of EQ to try to force the speakers to produce enough level out of their natural range. Because the have a lot of drivers they can absorb a lot of power and play very loud. Because they use midrange speakers as woofers and tweeters they have more than the normal amount of distortion and the frequency extremes. IF you like the way they sound, then use them and to heck with what audiophiles might think. A lot of the bashing occurs simply because of their marketing success. When one spends a lot of time and money putting together a particularly fine audio system and every time a non audiophile sees it they ask you why you didn't just "buy a Bose" one gets just as irritated as I do when the same people look at my finely crafted, fast, great handling, good looking, Honda sport touring motorcycle and ask me why I didn't buy a Harley.
p.s. The Bose "wave" stuff sounds pretty good for the size but for the price the sound is just unacceptably bad.
p.s. The Bose "wave" stuff sounds pretty good for the size but for the price the sound is just unacceptably bad.