Hmmm... I would say Bose is at least upper middle.
There are a few things Bose does well, none of which are really indicators of their audio quality. For example, I've tried at least a dozen different "high end" headphones and Bose, by far, has the best noise-cancelling headphones. I don't have a music player so it's more an exercise in self-indulgence to try things out. Bose also has a good marketing team for a speaker company. But Klipsche, Shure, etc. blow it out of the water in terms of audio quality. And I am by no means an audiophile -- classical music is just a good genre for finding out if speakers have a good range.
didn't you hear? it's so cliche to gripe about bose being cliche.
you must've missed the last hipster meeting. how very hipster of you.
I'm genuinely sad. That was a Simpsons quote, one of the best 5 second clips I can remember, and iago didn't respond. Probably very unhipster of me to care. Also, you can't see my balls through my jeans, so I don't quite classify.
That and I don't think everything's, like, totally ironic.