My Bose Acoustimas 3 system sounds awesome in every room I have ever hooked it up in.
My Bose iPod SoundDock sounds awesome in every room it is played it, small, large and even outside at the pool.
My Bose L1 Model II PA system sounds incredible in every venue I have used it.
Bose spends a ton of money on psycho-acoustic modeling and testing, they spend the time and science on what you can actually hear and re-enforcing that. Direct reflection and indirect sound doesn't require "perfect sound balanced rooms", it is 100% the contrary, Bose stuff sounds good in environments that everything else that doesn't.
My L1 Model II is 24 speakers in a horizontal radial pattern that in no matter what room and how far away you stand, you can't tell where the sound is coming from. Nobody can, everyone is amazed at how it fills the room, no matter how many or how few people are in the space.
Any opinions on lack of sound quality are just that opinions. Ethan Winer has a very complete and scientific examples of why "audiophile quality" is 100% subjective and exploited by non-scientific charlatans.
http://youtu.be/BYTlN6wjcvQ