I would consider the Bose 301 as mid-fi speakers and not hi-fi speakers. (Used to own the series 3 many years back). You can read more about these speakers in a review here.
For the price of the Bose 301 you can get far better and superior sounding speakers than the Bose 301.
I used to have a pair of the series IV years ago. I sold them for a little less than what I paid for them and got a pair of Paradigm Mini Monitors back then. The Paradigms were better by miles. I still use the monitors with my home PC.