Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Good for what they are;small, one driver, inexpensive speakers that work well in small spaces. The problem I have is with the Bose corporation and their policy on repairs to their products. The speaker wire terminals on one of my speakers broke when the speakers were dropped. I called Bose to get a replacement speaker wire terminal and they won't sell me one. Their POLICY is that they WON'T sell parts for their speakers. They did OFFER to repair the speakers for $75 plus shipping!
The Bose representative said they would look at the drivers and if they had problems with the surrounds, they would replace them as well for that price. Considering they have the weather proof Star drivers in them they shouldn't need to be replaced. So in essence they want me to spend at least $100 for repair and all of the shipping costs to replace a spring terminal that costs all of 50 cents. Something they should have just sent to me free considering I buy their products.
I would not recommend anyone buy their products because of their terrible customer service. So I give the product a three star rating but only a one star for value because of the terrible customer service. I will not in the future and recommend that you not, buy their products because of their awful after purchase service.

Price Paid:  $0.00 from gift

Summary:
The 101s have very nice mid range and trebble. No bass what so ever. I don't recomdend them for main speakers. Maybe for a back room. I use them to back up my polk audio speakers because they do have a wonderfull sound for the range they do produce. They can produce very nice clear highs and I can hear notes out of them that don't come from my main speakers.

Strengths:
Very crisp clear sound. They are great speakers for some aplications.

Weaknesses:
The 101s are limited by aplication use as they have absolutly no bass what so ever. They could be used a 2nd room main speaker with a small soft sub.

Price Paid:  $200.00

Summary:
These are great speakers. Nice clear and crisp sound, good bass for their size. Very very durable. I took one of them to be used at a conference I was holding and i forgot these things were only 4 ohms. my amp was set at 8 so yeah.. i smelled the speaker burning. it didnt work after that day. the other day i took it apart and checked and nothing seemed wrong except for some burnt cotton so i hooked it back up and lone behold the speaker worked again.

Strengths:
durable
crisp sound

Weaknesses:
damn 4 ohms

Price Paid:  $100.00 from eBay

Summary:
I'm a musician playing a variety of gigs and needed a small, sturdy, vocal monitor with a 1/4" imput jack for my small gigs. I took a chance on these as they were considerably less than traditional "Hot Spot" monitors.
These work GREAT for vocal monitors! I don't know (or care) how they would sound for a stereo system.

Strengths:
Handle a lot of power! 1/4 jack! Durable.
Very smooth sound in the Vocal range.

Weaknesses:
Could use more versatile mounting capability. IE: Side mounts as well as bottom mount.

Similar Products Used:
You name it, I've used it for live performances. Mostly EV and JBL larger monitors.

Price Paid:  $0.00 from borrowed from my dad

Summary:
boomy yet honky, with a clipped upper register and distorted bass below say 200Hz.

However, they were quite a bit more practical to bring into a dorm room than three-way speakers with 12" woofers. So I used them. I will not be using them again - ever.

I will say that the sound did clear up some when I hooked them up to my subwoofer. One driver trying to reproduce a full range isn't going to cut it.

Strengths:
Tough case.
small enough to work when others are too big.

Weaknesses:
Sound bad
They say Bose, and everyone with a tin ear for half a mile thinks they are wonderful.
Ugly.

Similar Products Used:
I have a Yamaha Sub/Sat system hooked up now.