Is it all worth it?

Mid-Fi is about the best you can say regarding Boston speakers.  Look at the construction and specs of the A40, truly awful. This is not a high quality speaker, and it cannot produce upper end sound relative to others. Yeah, you save a lot of money, but you do not somehow leapfrog the performance of better speakers. You only get what you can achieve with any speaker, a relative improvement limited by the speaker. Put a better speaker in the rig and the differences would become apparent. 

Further, you might prefer a better speaker and affordable electronics to the pricey stuff and A40. Only listening would tell. i.e. If you spent $10K on electronics and use the A40, you may prefer a receiver with a lower price Magenpan and come out far ahead in terms of cost. So, no the A40 doesn't make me think much of it.  :) 

Both Boston and Polk Audio made excellent mobile audio speakers back in the late-80's and early 90's. Cannot say much for their home speakers though. Mid-Fi is a fun listen w/o being in the critical side of things.

Happy Listening!

I still think the A40s might be well suited for the sunroom Mapman has them placed in. For that matter so might the Pioneer SP22s.

Yes I am listening to them now.    Very well suited for the sunroom. 

One can can call them whatever.    My point is they cost practically nothing these days and compete with new stuff citing many times more somewhat surprisingly.  

Yes se they are nothing special to look at and build quality is common.  All the more reason I started this thread.  It does not seem to even matter in this case.    

Mapman, well, let's have your list. When you say, "...compete with new stuff citing many times more somewhat surprisingly," let's hear the names and models of speakers these nearly free speakers compete well against. To what have you compared them directly to draw that conclusion? 

I own a pair of somewhat newer Boston Acoustics bookshelf speakers with the same construction and 6" bass and 3/4" tweeter. I got them for $10 at a garage sale, and I use them in my� garage system. 

I compared them directly (blind comparison, even) when I wrote the Audio by Van Alstine ABX Comparator article and pitted them against the Insignia 6" coaxial two-way speakers which were initially $50/pr. So, I had both of these in my main rig for that purpose.  I also have a pair of older Paradigm Micro speakers, which has more refined sound quality than these others. What speakers you have in mind that are "many times more" that the A40 beats? 

I can think of a situation in which some tiny bookshelf speakers with 3" bass drivers might sound "worse" to some ears than the A40, simply because the A40 would go deeper in the bass.