Yes, everyone has a Bose story. My roommate in college had these. We were both budding audiophiles. We discovered if you turn them around and play them backward so the drivers are facing you, the imaging improves and they do sound quite good, in a way that most multiple small driver systems can sound. I might add, in playing them backward you do not have to play them so loud and the overall sound is nonfatiguing. They just lacked deep bass.
