[Porsche-O-Phile]

Subjective. I have several Bose items including the premium audio package in my Mercedes (which is made by Bose), the noise canceling headphones (QC3), the noise canceling headphones for flying (Aviation-X) and a wave radio. I find all to be excellent products. Never had a problem or issue with any of them and they all work superbly. I neither need nor want enough bass to shake my fillings out, but they can deliver plenty. The operative word is "fidelity", not "shift the audio spectrum of a given song about 6000 Hz to the left then blast it at loud volume", which seems to be what people want these days.

I have several assorted Blaupunkt systems too and those have given mixed results from crap to fantastic. My wife's car has JBL. So far so good. Boring for the most part, but can be forced to sound good at louder volumes if you fiddle with the equalizer settings.

About every six months someone will start one of these Bose bashing threads and I just shake my head... If you don't like it, don't buy it. I think they're fine - certainly better than 90% of the other Chinese-made garbage on the audio market these days.