Since I suggested Henni might like the Bose setup, I suppose a couple of the back-handed comments were directed at me.
First, he is not a full band playing for a rock audience. He plays an arranger and does a wonderful ministry, and even though there may be hundreds there, I would think clean coverage for everyone in sight would be preferred to blowing the ears off the first five rows of people in order to be heard in the back.
However, since I haven't heard or seen his needs (and neither has anyone else here), I merely suggested he might be really pleased with the Bose. The L1 was designed for each player in the band to have his own system. However the Bose forum has countless pages of suggested setups and dialogue suggesting that an awfully lot of people are using it for duos and small groups as well.
I have considerable experience with both types of pa systems, and there are certainly venues where one is better than the other.
One other benefit of the Bose is that your ears will thank you when you can still distinguish highs when you get older.
Go ahead guys, haul your 18-inch subs around. Oh wait, I'll bet there aren't more than two or there on here who do that. Maybe that makes it easier to suggest to others that it's the way to go?
My limited backwoods experience tells me that most people, not everyone, who tries the Bose gear under anything close to normal circumstances ends up liking it a lot. Not everyone can afford it though.
DonM