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Martin, just out enjoying a hot Caribbean day, when I spied a stereo shop. First off, I have to say I love the sound for the most part and have since purchased a wave radio and a couple wave radios with CD players, both the latter for work.The good: This machine will fill your room with gorgeous sound and if you're playing a CD that was professionally produced or if you have ripped one and are playing it back from your iPod thorough the unit's aux in jacks, you'll probably be very satisfied, more than satisfied with the sound you get.The bad: What if you're not playing a professionally produced CD. What if you've ripped these to iTunes. Or a tape of a Springsteen concert, which has too much bass. The salesman took his name and made arrangement to have it delivered to the cruise ship the tourist had arrived on."You interested." the clerk told me."Nah, not really," I said, but I was interested and the clerk knew it. I thought.
I watched fascinated while they haggled. The salesman didn't come down and in the end the tourist bought the stereo that looked more like a model for a hotel. A couple years ago I was wandering around Philipsburg, on the Dutch side of St. Still, regarding the Bose, I can equalize the sound coming out of my iPod Touch, but I shouldn't have too. He cranked it up and I opened my wallet.Now I find myself writing a review about this odd looking stereo. What if you have some of those early, almost illegal Beatle tapes, which have almost no bass on them. At the very least Bose should have included a bass and treble control.
He was playing Linda Ronstadt's "Heart Like a Wheel" and I've always been a sucker for Linda.He told me he could have it delivered to my cruise ship duty free. I wandered in and saw an American tourist bartering with a sales clerk, trying to get him to come down on the price for this funny looking, all in one stereo system.Who'd want that. What if you want to play them through your Bose Acoustic Wave Music System II. He turned it on, not loud, and it sounded oh so sweet. I asked him how it sounded played loud. You're SOL if you want to do that.I have stereos in every room and they all have bass and treble controls. Heck, my dad had those in the fifteen dollar radio in his Fifty-Two Chevy.In conclusion, if you are going to use this as your main stereo and you have a hours and hours of concert tapes as I do, then this might not be the stereo for you, but if, on the other hand, you have only professionally recorded CDs from the major record companies or if you want to run your television sound though this machine via the auxiliary inputs, you'll probably be very happy with this unit.
This highly publicized product is not worth its price. The sound quality is merely ok and there are definitely better or similar products in the market for much less money.My old boom box (merely $200) is not far away from the sound quality of this unit. I bought it based on some of the favorable reviews in Amazon, and of course I listen to it on the store but the latter does not help much as they do not have a proper listening room.Way overprice for what it delivers. Do not believe all the hype of Bose's own ads.
We are enjoying Bose Acoustic Wave Music System 2 with Multi CD Changer. Very professional & kind Bose Customer Service representatives. Excellent quality of sound system. Easy to set up & hook up the system. The system was delivered as promised & working very well.Dr. Bhate
These sound so good my husband with love them and he is a very discerning musician.
Also, there is no clock and no sleep timer; something that an item that costs this much could easily have included. But we are keeping it because my girlfriend has an affinity to wires running all over the place and that is about the best thing I can say about it.
The first thing I noticed was that there is no way to control the equalization. I wrote Bose about it and got a response.
I bought one of these because my girlfriend wanted one. My older ears can't hear the high frequencies as well as they used to.
And I quote, "The radio's equalization circuit is integral to the overall acoustical properties of the radio, and it was felt that additional controls would detract from, rather than add to, the sound quality." So I'm stuck with "sound quality" that some engineer determined would be best for me. I can't boost the bass to hear the bass better or the treble to hear the high hat and cymbals better.
Also, the display is on the top so you can't see what volume level it is on or what radio station without getting up and walking over to it. To me it was a waste of money.but it is an excellent status symbol.
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