Personally, I have heard Bose systems that walk all over the Klipsch. My father deals in Bose and MTX for large scale audio(auditoriums, churches, ect..) and at one point we were giving a demo for our local high school. This system was valued at over $40,000.00 and let me tell you, when we fired it up it blew the roof. Some of the lesser home audio by Bose doesn't stand up to the Klipsch, I'll agree on that. You just gotta know where to look.
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