So a buddy of mine is moving to Fort Worth and I was helping him load his U-Haul truck. He gave me a pair of these Bose 301 Series IV speakers. Now I've heard good and bad about bose speakers. I'm looking into replacing my surround speakers with these. Good idea or nah?
The 301s might not make for terrible surrounds. They will have a much higher indirect-to-direct sound relative to conventional speakers, and that might be good for the ambient sound that is mostly what surrounds are used for. They would not be my first choice but hey, you can't complain about the cost. I think I would rather have the 301s as surrounds than the dipole speakers that many dedicated surrounds use as a design.
However, I wouldn't want to use them in a 7.1 surround sound system where the other surround pair are monopole, or bookshelf speakers. Use one type of the other for all surrounds, but don't mix the types. I think they will be fine in a 5.1 system.
