Bose Wave Music System - Platinum White by BOSE
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Digital camera reviews of Bose Wave Music System - Platinum White
Digital camera Review: High priced hype with plastic surround.
Summary: 1 Stars
I had one and was seduced by, " it sounds better than a stereo many times
its size". What rubbish. It sounds "so so" and nothing at all special
I used mine in the UK and USA and the classical FM channels sounded really flat and lifeless. It is all plastic which looks crappy after a while. My BOSE was white in colour and turned a pleasing tone of old ivory. If you want a great sounding small system try the TIVOLI Mk 2 with the CD player. Nicely built with wood and a warm pleasant sound. You cannot get great sound with a mini set of speakers. Thats fact. I now own a analog tube stereo and cd player with Klipsh speakers. That is music!
Digital camera Review: How about useful features
Summary: 2 Stars
The Bose Wave II I just bought sounds just as good as the Wave I already had, but is more annoying to use. The lack of buttons might be a great cost saver for Bose, but it's a pain in the ass for anybody who owns one, and is maybe the stupidest design idea in any product I've seen lately. My old unit has both buttons and a remote. OK, so it still costs $500, which I guess is a benefit, but it really doesn't do anything that my old unit didn't.
If Bose really wants to add consumer value, instead of offering a kit that allows me to use my $500 radio as a remote wireless speaker for my computer or television, how about adding a wireless connection for remote speakers so I can hear it anywhere in the house.
Grrrrrrr.
Digital camera Review: I almost bought this to find common ground with the rest of humanity
Summary: 4 Stars
I laugh at and mock the Bose company both on Amazon and in real life among living, breathing human beings. This shocks some, offends others, and perhaps mildly annoys the rest. "Bose" is used by the masses swimming in disposable income to mean "good audio" as "Coke" is used to mean bubbly sweet brown liquid. I myself have fairly cheap audio products, except for some expensive (by non-audiophile standards) speakers I bought without any good reason a long time ago. But the point is, I grew up in a home with good audio equipment. I recall when my brother once saved up his money and bought some fashionable Bose monitors to replace the cheap speakers that came with an all-in-one stereo he'd got hold of. Problem was, when we hooked them up, they sounded worse than what they replaced--thin, lacking in bass, clarity, presence, whatever. Compared to my father's various speaker pairs, they were absolute trash. He doggedly used them for years because he'd spent a few hundred bucks on them; however, and all his music sounded like it was coming across the world's loudest AM radio.
And over the years it seemed every time I encountered a Bose product--attached to computers, in cars, in living rooms--it sucked either in actual performance, or was was ridiculous in concept, such as the strangely shaped $250 3-CD changer the company markets. But "Bose" rolled on like a CEO from early in this decade, living the high life and laughing at the discrepancy between performance and pay. And the shareholders, as it were, were fine with that, while I remained a sort of Nietzschean outsider, gnashing in my teeth in lonely superiority alone in my garret.
But something has happened recently that cracked my seething hatred of the Bose company, and given me hope that someday I might be reconciled with the rest of mankind: I heard a Bose product that I liked quite a bit, twice. It was this radio at the home of a friend and colleague. Although I normally only listen to emo, it was tuned to a classical station, and there was not one thing really wrong with how it sounded. Because of the modest size and the nameplate, I expected not much at all, and instead heard something strongly adequite for eating and drinking to. It sounded better than my brother's old Bose speakers, that's for sure. The bass was OK, the sound was clear and balanced as it echoed around the room. It sounded about as good as hooking up a compact CD player to a Peavey combo guitar amp, like I did it long ago. Likewise, from across the room, there was no clear sense of listening to stereo, but you can't have everything, specially when it's a Bose.
I briefly thought about buying this thing partly out of perversity and partly to put in my office and probably would have if it had been about $300 to $350 cheaper. But if you have money to blow, it's not a bad product at all.
Digital camera Review: I love my Bose Wave....
Summary: 5 Stars
....radio/CD player with remote. I'm an old school guy who always thought I needed to haul around speakers and a full system anywhere I went to get fantastic music sound. I bought my Bose Wave after hearing one a friend purchased. I was knocked out by the amount of sound and the quality of sound produced by such a compact, mobile unit. I can move this thing from room to room with one hand and when I change homes, I just grab it up and take it with me in the front seat. I have even taken this unit along to friends houses for outdoor parties and you can hear it all over the backyard with no problem. The unit really shines though when you place it properly within a room, put in a CD, and kick back with your remote and adjust the sound to your pleasure. I have been so pleased with this unit that I recommend it to all of my friends and I am saving up my nickels so I can buy another one for the back part of the house. I prefer to keep the volume in the middling range so I can appreciate the subtle tones, but even when it gets jammed up very,very loud I just don't hear much distortion - just more sound. It's a little pricey but Bose lets you pay over a whole year if you'll commit to monthly credit card withdrawals. Kind of hard to beat that! Highly recommended to anyone with a few bucks to invest.Digital camera Review: I turned it on, and... holy pounding eardrums
Summary: 5 Stars
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.