I had Bose F1 last weekend for three days. I had three weddings Friday,Saturday and Sunday. On Friday and Saturday I used it with my system ( two Yamaha dsr112 and two JBL xlf618) and on Sunday wedding was smaller for 110 people so I only brought Bose to really test it. Tops sound pretty nice, but so do my dsr112 to tell you the truth. Subs were ok. I did like how the low end sounded but it wasn't enough. We play a lot of rock and pop, plus a lot of Balkan music too. When I talked to the salesman in the store he wanted me to really tell him what I think of these. These cost in Canada around 1400 to 1500$ Can .
I told him if these speakers were somwhere $700-800 I might even consider them for smaller gigs. But, for this kind of money I can pretty much buy much, much better speakers which sound better and have more headroom with better SPL. When I bought my dsr112 I paid around $900 per speaker. And these blow Bose by far. Even JBL prx 700 or prx600 blow these and leave them far behind. Still I would take F1 over L1 any time.
I am not saying they are bad, but for this kind of money they should give a lot more. Bose is still being "Bose" , selling us nicely wraped BS with clever advertizing.