I like the Bose and have a couple of friends with their outdoor speakers, but in a side by side, to my ears, they don't quite match up to the Klipsch. I do like them better than the less expensive Yamaha's I listed though. Bose is not the junk that bashers would have you believe.

I have the cubes/acoustimass in our gameroom and am very happy with them. I have no doubt I could get better sound quality for the same dollars but for aesthetics/sound they work for me.