I'm not one of those people who automatically trashes Bose equipment, but Bose does a lot of processing/EQ/"coloration" to music to make it sound more pleasing.

I'm not one of those people who automatically trashes Bose equipment, but Bose does a lot of processing/EQ/"coloration" to music to make it sound more pleasing. There is absolutely nothing wrong with preferring that! Nearly all consumer-oriented speakers/headphones do this, because there are other models specifically intended for monitoring use. However, it does make Bose equipment poorly suited to engineering-type applications such as recording work, comparing mp3 compression algorithms, etc.