( 8 reviews )
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Posted: 07-17-2009
When my family, husband, twin daughters and me, decided to move from Montreal to Austin, we had some major decisions to make. What to take, what to sell. We had a couple top flight stereo systems, a 5.1 surround sound system to beat the band, my camera gear, -- I had "L" everything, three bodies and lots of other terrific lenses -- and a decade's worth of pretty nice stuff that we'd accumulated. We were pretty well off, but not rich, not even upper middle class. This move was a big deal for us. My husband had a new job, but what about me? I was losing a pretty good income. But Austin, what a wonderful city. And it's warm. We decided to go for it, so we sold everything we could, reaped a small fortune on eBay. So bye bye, beautiful sounding music, bye bye my cameras and the gear I loved. That was a couple years ago and we're doing okay now, better than okay. We have back a new big screen TV, a new surround sound system, but we still have beaucoup de rooms that need good music and on a THELMA AND LOUISE type driving trip with my friend Katie I discovered the Bose Wave Radio System. We stopped at the outlet stores at Woodburn, a city south of Portland, Oregon and when I walked into the Bose store I was blown away. I listened to everything and when I got back to Houston I made some major purchases, it's nice to have some money again. I have this radio in my dark room. Usually when I go in there to work, it's dark, duh. Okay, so I've got this red light in there, but you know what I mean, you can't exactly read the labels on your CDs, so I opted for the Wave Radio instead of the Wave Music System with the CD player. There's an audio input on the back of the machine and I plug my iPod into it with the music set on random play and then I thoroughly enjoy the hours I spend in there. Music courses through the room, runs through me as I sing along while I work. I love the bass, not too much, not too little. I love the highs. I love this radio.
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Posted: 01-12-2009
This is a solid performer. Great sound, great fidelity, great speakers. My mornings are all the better because of this one mainstay -- my Bose -- no matter how rotten my morning mood may be, my Bose mellows out my morning long before I am able to mellow out myself. I have no complaints about the reception -- it sure beats fiddling with an antenna -- or in the case of the system (NON Bose) that I have in my bedroom -- fiddling with the electric cord, or, of all things, a loong skinny wire -- to get better reception. My Bose is a happy little self-contained unit that just keeps going and going and going......
