Selectable 12 or 24 hour time-of-day display modes. Put this sound system as close to your bed as you like, and yet it won’t keep you awake. We heard no hum from either the speakers or from inside, even within inches of it.

Silent clock when the rest of the system is off. The remote also allows tuning of the radio, setting of the clock as well as the wake time alarm, as well as setting the station you’d like to wake up to. Controllable functions via this remote include: Power ON OFF, Sleep, Mute, Input Selection, AM FM Band Choosing, Volume UP DOWN, Selection and Setting of Radio Station Presets, CD Player functions including Seek and Track Advance, Play / Pause, and Eject. The remote works well, even across large rooms. Bose Wave Music System First Generation Review – Features, Benefits, Pros, Advantages Compact, Full-Featured Remote Control We got to play with one of these during a vacation trip, and were so intrigued with it that we spent several days listening, poking, tapping, and just messing around with this cool system. This Bose Wave product is a glorified clock radio, a CD boom box, and sensitive radio tuner, put all together into a single package, and all controlled by the included remote. It sounds as good as the better stereo boom boxes, yet takes up much less space than those. It has an audio amplifier, stereo FM and AM tuner, a CD player, a clock that can be set to wake you to your favorite radio station or CD, and the much-smaller-than-they-sound speakers, via the folded waveguide technology inside.īose has done a great job at packaging a pretty decent component-grade stereo setup into an all-in-one music sound system package. This original model is built within a thick plastic case, and unlike separate hi-fi components, has no buttons on the unit proper that often wear out or break on vintage stereos.

While this all-in-one sound system will not rattle your teeth and shake your chest (much), to the ears, it sounds like a discrete component stereo with much bigger speakers. The small speakers makes lots of firm but by no means muddy bass.

Its performance, for its size, might leave even the most seasoned audiophile breathless. This, the first version of the Bose Wave system looks like a more traditional hi fi stereo outfit, in terms of performance, build, feature set, and price. Here, we offer our Bose Wave music system first generation review.

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