| Bose Wave Music System - Platinum White | 
 enlarge | List Price: $499.00
Buy New: $479.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 44 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1998
Category: CE
Publisher: BOSE
Studio: BOSE
Brand: Bose
Label: BOSE
Media: Electronics
Special Features: nv: Dimensions^4.2"H x 14.6"W x 8.6"D (10.6 x 36.8 x 21.9 cm) 8.7 lbs. (3.9 kg)
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.7
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 14.6 x 4.2
MPN: 033976
UPC: 017817341875
EAN: 0017817341875
ASIN: B0002ZLZ02
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | A bold new standard in audio performance. It may well become the primary music system in your home | | • | Easy to use: no buttons, credit card-sized infrared remote, and MP3 CD capability | | • | Distinctive and elegant design: streamlined styling with a thin, slot-loaded CD player |
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Product Description
The Wave music system reproduces one-half octave lower musical notes and delivers even greater clarity and definition than the original Wave radio/CD. With its deeper tones and even more lifelike sound, you might just feel like you're sitting in the front row. Inside, our new proprietary waveguide speaker technology combines with other Bose technologies to deliver enhanced performance at all listening levels. You'll hear the same clear musical nuances whether you turn the volume up or keep it soft. You'll also enjoy the full depth and range of every vocal or instrument on MP3s, CD-R/RWs, and conventional CDs. Listen to CDs created on your computer and take advantage of the digital MP3 format for hours of uninterrupted Wave music system quality sound. The Wave music system was engineered to be delightfully easy to use. There are no visible buttons. Instead, the entire system is completely and conveniently controlled by a credit card-sized remote control. And setup couldn't be easier. The CD player, digital AM/FM tuner, amplifiers and speakers are all built-in so you can enjoy quality sound right out of the box. The large, bright display panel is easy to read and understand, prominently displaying the artist, title and album names of your suitably encoded MP3 CDs. It's also easy to enjoy the system's full, rich sound with your TV, VCR, DVD player, or computer, thanks to an auxiliary input jack. And if you want to keep the music to yourself, you can simply plug your headphones into the headphone jack. The Wave music system may look familiar, but it takes the original award-winning design of the Wave radio/CD to new levels. With its absence of buttons and a convenient slot-loaded CD player, the slim, sleek profile shines through to complement just about any room.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 Good, but not the best for the $$$ June 16, 2008
Lets be frank, the BOSE system is definitely an overpriced product. So, it is OK product that performs so so... it is also $500. If you really would like a system that sounds 100 times better and costs slightly less, I would look into the Tivoli Model 2 with the Tivoli subwoofer addition. I have tried both systems, and was only satisfied when I got my Tivoli Model Two. The Tivoli Model Two is definitely going to be classic and a system people talk about for years... mark my words. What can I say, it was designed by Henry Kloss, one of the most important sound engineers of our time. I have the new ipod dock with remote hooked up to it and it sounds amazing! Keep in mind that this is a system for people who like to LISTEN to music. True Hi-Fi... not another boomy window shaker system. The Tivoli system has incredible sound separation a really impressive sound stage. Oh and did I mention that it is really cool looking? It has real wood cabinets, minimal solid design. And hey, it does not have the look of a bedside alarm clock!
Hopefully I have just saved some of you true music connoisseurs the headache of having to return their BOSE products... or not. Yours faithfully, Sonic Boom.
Good reproduction fo speech;music rather disappointing June 9, 2008
I enjoy waking up to soft music wafting over my head!. Speech over the air waves is very clear. I am rather disappointed in the quality of instrumental reproduction. For $500 I was expecting a little more.
 I turned it on, and... holy pounding eardrums May 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was actually afraid to turn it up past 88, don't even know how loud it gets, and as loud as it was, there was not a hint of distortion.
I am with the Bose basher before me; a skeptic won over. As for the fellow who claims there are brands just as solid sounding for lower prices, I researched the brands he mentioned and did not find a match, be it price-wise or customer appreciation-wise. His suggestions were not as compact.
This piece of equipment is so small, I almost pity it; putting it to such "strains" of volume, but it SURE CAN HANDLE IT. Not a hint of strain to be heard. Meanwhile the sound is crisp, full and REAL. You will hear every instrument being played. And, no sound range overpowers another, there's never too much bass, midrange or treble -- perfectly balanced! I applaud this music system, worth every cent, because I love music, all genres. If you would find life without music lacking a certain finish, you just benefit from a great system. Hey, you get what you pay for, and for what I'm hearing from this system, I MADE OUT LIKE A BANDIT. Thank you.
Bose delivers very good sound, but some people insist on getting miracles. March 22, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
In fine, the Bose Wave music system is a little wonder.
Reading reviews here and there, it's clear that people who don't like this system expect things it wasn't meant to do. Some complain that it doesn't do what a multi-thousand dollar multi-speaker room-filling bunch of equipment will do. What sort of fool expects a compact stereo system to do that? Others don't like AM reception. Who wants AM reception? There's no music on AM, just a bunch of pseudo-musical noise, a lot of neo-fascist talk radio, and too much blatant superstition ("religion"). Some want bass/treble controls. We'll get into that later.
The Bose is primarily designed for music on FM. There's precious little music there, either. Again, mostly noise, superstitious nonsense, and Hitler-worshipping Republicans. But there is also REAL music - you know: Scarlatti, Soler, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss (J), Strauss (R), Scharwenka, Sousa, Spohr, St.Saens, Suk, Sullivan, Stravinsky, Schmidt, Schmitt, Sibelius, Stanord, Surinach, Shostakovich, Sondheim, Schickele ... that bunch. For other stuff, you don't need good sound - a couple of tinny $5 speakers just fine. Get off the net and go to Good Will.
The Bose is also designed for the music lover who doesn't have a lot of space for hardware. Space is for CDs, scores, the Grove dictionary ... not to mention opera DVDs. This little wonder is designed to deliver great sound, but not multi-thousand $ sound.
I have 2 Boses (bedroom, kitchen) and am getting a 3rd (office). Like it? I'll say!! The Bose has unusually rich sound, mostly because it has a very fine bass response. Sometimes it's a little more than strictly necessary, but it's often revealingly effective. It's great for things such as the organ in St.Saens' 3rd Symphony. Yes: no bass/treble controls, and I know that there are people who like to fiddle with such things ... often endlessly. It's a habit, like channel surfing. My hearing is not so utterly precious that I need to make micro-adjustments in sound, in the hope that it will meet my ultra-refined senses of perfect pitch and perfect mix.
There are, strictly speaking, no controls on the radio at all. Everything that can be done must be done with the remote. The really good news is that you get a second identical remote with the CD player add-on. The remote is quite small, but it's very easy to see what's on the buttons.
The radio also takes 1 CD. The add-on takes 3, for a total of 4. That covers pretty much every opera and Mahler symphony known to Man. The add-on is hooked up with 2 very short connectors, so you don't have excess wiring hanging about. The add-on comes with a CD that programs it, so basically this is a plug-and-play system that requires no fiddling. Apparently you can also hook the whole thing into a larger sound system, your computer, and maybe even your brain if you're into digital prosthetics.
The radio's display is clear and distinct ... no backlit stuff that requires extreme magnification to make out. The display also wonderfully adjusts itself to the ambient light level, so that at night it's not intrusive. The CD add-on has 3 little lights, one for each occupied slot. These are orange, changing to lemon-lime for the currently active CD. These do not dim, alas, and some people may find them annoying. I play the bedroom system all night (good for the brain) and did in fact quickly adjust to the CD lights.
One nice feature is that the CDs are played in sequence and the system goes back to the first CD when it's finished with the last. You can also program different sequences with the remote. Another excellent feature is that the system will retain all settings for 48 hours if it's unplugged or there's a power failure.
The user manuals are thorough and full-sized (8 x 11), so that you can actually not only see the print, you can read it.
The sound, as I've said, is remarkable for such a small piece of equipment. Amazingly, even turned down very low, the sound will fill a good-sized room. I haven't turned the set up to its highest volume, but I've had it fairly high and encountered no distortion.
Reception: Bose sells a dipole FM antenna that helps with the stations with actual music but not much power. Our local station, XLNC, used to be only 1000 watts, hard to pick up on some equipment, but came in fine on the Bose (no antenna). Now it's 7500 watts and will drown out any nearby crud. The Bose usually picks up KUSC, 100-odd miles to the north, very clearly. But of course I'd guess they have enough watts to run the State electric chair, if we had one. We use needles. Nobody has to share.
This is spiffy equipment. It doesn't work miracles, nor walk on water, nor raise the dead, nor kill the undead. It doesn't make the bed and definitely doesn't do windows. Or Windows. What it does is give you sound that equals more expensive equipment (not a lot more, but more) and does it from a modest corner of your bookshelf. It comes in ivory or charcoal. As to stereo separation: what do you want from speakers 18 inches apart??? Do the math, people. Still, separation is better than you would expect.
If you don't want to spend the money, get a boom box. You can enjoy complaining about your inability to microadjust bass and treble on that as well. If you want huge sound so that Wagner will cause your walls to tremble and crumble, spend a bunchabucks for 50 speakers and a receiver a yard long and 26 inches high. Go wild. But don't send $500 to do $5000's job.
Fantastic Bose March 5, 2008
We are totally enjoying our Bose Radio/CD. Sound quality is excellent and the casing is small - fits anywhere.
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