I doubt that you’d get anywhere near as offended as I do by this — but it might still be an interesting experiment for you to make such comparison take place for yourself: get yourself a WAVE, or a Bose table radio, or a pair of ANY of the Bose “hi-fi” speakers, and set them up — blind, of course, so you’ll need at least one helper -- for a series of A/B comparisons with any of the competing products from REAL hi-fi firms. I would, if you were the betting type, be willing to lay BIG odds on the outcomes.
The wife and I did a sound identification test a while, with a pair of Paradigm, Energy, and Bose 301. We listen to different type of music, classical, jazz, blues, rock, pop, and rap. The Bose 301 wasn't that bad, in more 'natural sound recordings', it is a lot worse than then the other two. With enhanced and re-engineered sounds, electronic instruments, as in some pop songs, rap, they sounded much better. The Energy and Paradigm sounded different with different type of recordings as well, we can tell which pair is which. However, there were some music that we couldn't tell much difference.