......if you use your equalizer to adjust for your particular environment.
One reason that speakers sound so much different at the store from what they sound like in your home may be simply due to the differences in the acoustic environments.
Either change your acoustic environment (difficult) or simply change the equalization curve. Its a simple thing to do with iTunes; I suppose there are also equalizer applications for the PC. As long as you don't over-drive your speakers into distortion, you can easily adjust each frequency band over a 24db range with respect to all the other bands. Itunes provides for 10 band adjustments.
I have no experience with the other brands of speakers, but I would guess that the manufacture guess-tunes their system for some generic computer office environment - that's why they sound great in certain homes and not in others and as a result that's why there are many differing opinions about speaker systems. Whether or not those systems could be tuned over a similar dynamic range without distortion could be determined by thorough technical comparisons, but I suspect all speaker systems could be tuned within a similar range with similar results.
In addition, consider that each listener has a slightly different response to each audio band. WWII bomber pilots lost all of their hearing just in the 400hz range because of the continuous engine noise predominant in this frequency band.
I was able to completely remove the mid-band, make it the most prominent, etc, with simple slider controls today, so I'm not convinced that there are any significant deficiency/advantages with the Bose over the other speakers mentioned in these reviews as long as the appropriate adjustments are made. Get more detail about BOSE(R) Companion 3 Multimedia Speaker System - Graphite / Silver.
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