Bose produces very faithul music reproduction, so if you have low quality mp3 files and a bad amp, these speakers will not improve your music.

If you appreciate music and hearing it with speakers with great range and balance, these speakers are for you

In conclusion if you enjoy music and movies and need theater like sound quality or a concert hall like enveloping experience for everyone in the room I highly recommend that you go buy these

Poorly recorded music sounds like crap, but well recorded music sounds AWESOME!

Not just loud noise, actual music.

I listen to soft music (jazz, typically, or ambient) in the morning and these speakers deliver all the nuances at very low volume; I listen to hard rock at high volume on other occasions, and the 301's don't scare away or distort at all: these things would tear the house apart before they'd lose sound quality

I am NOT referring specifically to the Bose 301V, but rather to comments by other reviewers concerning the "natural" sound these speaker produce and that "they're for people who want their music to sound like music."Twenty-two years ago, my wife--who has ears like a bat--chose a pair of Bose 6.2 bookshelf speakers when we shopped at an audiophile showroom (from among late eighties, early nineties models by JBL, B.A., Polk, and others--all excellent makers

Music will never become fatiguing but you traded realism for that tonality

If these speakers are used as front speaker with low end sound systems and play some bad quality music it will be sound like crap just like the one star comments as stated

Not just loud noise, actual music.

Movies sound great and music is precise and "all encompassing" in stereo mode.

I got these speakers to enjoy music while working in my home office

I also noticed that for recordings with complicated music or harsh sounding music, the speaker tries to refine the sound to make it more enjoyable

After searching through a lot of bad reviews on Bose Speakers I decided it to give it a try and tested them at a store with my favorite music, to found out they were fabulous, and bad reviews come only from people who has a perjudice on the brand, or just dislike the advertizing style of Bose

In essence they just vanish leaving you with a room filled with beautiful music

Their headphones, for example, make music sound good, even if they don't very accurately replicate sound

IF Bose continues to make products with the same attention to detail and quality craftsmanship that went into these 6.2s, and IF you love your music to sound alive--to reach inside you to stir your soul, my experience suggests that Bose owners are speaking the literal truth when they praise their speakers for having these qualities

I strongly recommend these speakers to be used as surround rear speakers with good audio set and play good quality music

However, as I mature, grow, and learn to appreciate finer details in audio and loudspeakers, I find that Bose is falling off