Have I A/B'd Bose L1's with my EON's? No. Heard them used by local musos and had a chance to walk around a room to listen? Definitely... outdoors too. My impression of L1's being overpriced speakers-in-a-stick stands. I'm all for hi-tech and I've used Bose systems previously, and if I thought the L1's were the way to go I'd own a pair (stereo 4 life).

Tell you a story that may help... how I wound up with EON's was that I actually did set up a huge A/B test outdoors about ten years ago with my former Bose 800's + the Bose subwoofer system against the JBL powered EON's and subs which had just come out at the time, and I ran white and pink noise through them with no EQ and did a frequency spectrum analysis. The EON's were much flatter than the Bose... and if you think about it, you never see Bose speakers of any kind used in a studio for that reason. A balanced speaker response is very important to me as a keyboardist so I ditched my Bose in favor of EON's with no regrets.

I would suggest repeating this test with Bose L1's if possible, and since I haven't done this I don't know what the results would be in advance. Maybe this will give you an unbiased indication of the L1's ability to reproduce all frequencies in an even manner as I found the JBL EON's can.