[SpruceTop]

Hi WildPicker,

Thanks for your shootout results!

I've recently bought two QSC K10 speakers and a Bose L1 Compact, so I'm ready for just about anything from performing in a closet to a medium-sized venue. I feel the Bose L1 Compact makes both a good small-venue, stand-alone system, or an excellent monitor/fill PA system when used with one or two QSC K10 speakers for larger venues.

Regarding the Bose L1 Compact, it handles any of my guitars' bass notes easily (standard concert-pitch tuning), and reproduces the bass registers of canned music with decent low-frequency reproduction up to quite loud listening levels. You're right about these smaller systems, whether Bose L1 Compact or Fishman Soloamp (which I've owned), getting harsher-sounding as the volume is cranked to loud levels, but for small venues, the tone is really decent when held to low-to-medium volume levels.

Regards,

SpruceTop