1997 vintage, AWR1-1W in Charcoal, owner since 1997. When I got it new. The music is not blow you away, but when I first heard one I fell in love, and when I received mine at home. I played around with the position, and I was amazed by what sound was being produced (like all bose speakers that is of similar design, their positions may need to be adjusted. Not always as Bose directs, but closeish, if you desire the stereo separation/surround effects. I have had/have many Bose products, through the years. I love my Cinemate (analog model, which has two bidirectional speakers powered by the Acoustimass. With the ir receiver/left right input connected to the Acoustimass.) on my bedroom television. I enjoy the Boseie sound, and I understand the limitations of each design. If you have a model that has outputs, and they are variable. You can use an active woofer with it. For a long time, I didn’t use one and loved the sound quality by far. It will not be an main system, and it will not be any good for a party, or jamming, but but for a bedroom, and other rooms that you will want good audio, it will be good, an active woofer will only increase the enjoyment. Enjoy your Bose products, because if you enjoy the sound, you can turn it up where you don’t need to hear those haters.
I worked for the company on the retail side from 03-06. I was there when the company auditioned the Wave to us before it was launched. We had a display case in store that displayed a vertical spine that separated the top cover down to the chassis and all the components in-between. It was pretty cool. The system has two 26-inc tapered wave guides and is a half an octave lower then the previous design. The two differences in the current series is the housing, and you are able to adjust the bass. Those were good times
A few years ago I bought exactly such a device on the secondary market. It was accompanied by a manual, an antenna, a remote control and a test CD. To be honest, I expected more from this product. The Harman-Cardon go+play Bluetooth speaker sounds better despite the fact that it costs more than twice as much. I ordered a pedestal from the fourth Wave model from an official Bose dealer, and got the opportunity to listen to the sound via Bluetooth. The system complements the interior of my apartment. In my country, this is a rare product
Picked one of these up (AWRC -1P) and it has awesome sound quality! I played everything from Van Halen to Robbie WIlliams and more. Any types of music I played through it sounded awesome! Plenty of bass and the sound has a nice flat, accurate response as well as hearing all the detail in the music recordings!
The BOSE Wave was the product that convinced me that not every sound system had to be a huge and cumbersome separates setup. I couldn't believe it when I heard it, and sure it didn't sound as good as my system back then but it sounded huge and was tiny! And crucially it sounded good enough. We still have a BOSE Wave 2, the CD player has died and we no longer use it, but I don't have the heart to get rid of it.
Built the tooling for the original Wave Radio back in the day. All H13, copperberyllium with D2 tool steel lifters. First class all the way. Up till that time they had been using a simple mild steel mold that had to be assembled, a part shot, disassembled, part removed, reassembled, rinse and repeat. Our tool was a production tool and pipped out a housing every 20 seconds or so rather than every 5 or ten minutes. They didn't lower the price to reflect these efficiencies, as I recall.
We had a Sony under the cabinet CD Radio in our old kitchen. In our new home we have a Great Room that has a lot of echo. We get out Bose Wave IV this week. We have lots of old CD’s. We will see how it goes.
The Folded Horn, the Transmission Line speaker has a long history. Bose pioneered this acoustic artefact. How to make a small acoustic box sound like a larger one. Now, in the 21st century, they are not wrong in their thinking.
I had that Bose Wave music system for about 15 years until the CD player quit on me. I paid $499 for it originally. I bought a Bose Wave music system lV refurbished directly from Bose in 2022 for $299. Love my Bose
Been dosing off, waking to a first gen cd wave clock radio since 2001. It cost maybe 15x the generic bedside clock radio of the day but sounds way better and, 23 years later, represents good value for money. Top load cd means no mechanism problems but mostly use phone into aux audio. A couple of the top button controls got flaky but they have fixed themselves, suspect was maybe contacts cleaning up with use as mostly used the remote for years.
I bought a bose wave radio at a thrift store for $10. No remote. I managed to program a universal remote to partially work to turn it on but not much else. Ended up borrowing a remote from my dad. I need to buy one, about $10. $20 altogether is not bad
The BOSE WAVE SYSTEM III cost $499, that's what I paid for mine some 10 years ago at an authorized BOSE outlet @ Dolphin Mall in Miami. A year ago it stopped producing sound. It's going to cost me about $200 (with shipping) to have it repaired at Josh Electronics in Costa Mesa, CA Any suggestions as to how wise a move it is.
I had 20 year old Bose radio, tremendous sound. I gave it to my son as i wanted Bose with CD player as well as radio. This one i ordered i thought was new for $325 but just older model. It sounds terrible and if you increase volume to 40 you cannot even understand words. I think it is bad speakers. Am I stuck with it or can it be fixed?. I am very old but have engineering background and steady hand. Can i fix it myself?
I recently found one of this particular model on an e-waste recycling shelf. Seems to function pretty well, but I get some static noise on the AM band. Any solutions?
A salesman in a HiFi store badgered me into listening to one. It was a rather underwhelming experience, not bad for a small unit but not in the least HiFi. At least it wasn’t as awful as the dreaded Bose 901s.
Replaced my old Bang and Olafson 3500 system as it was going bad and I was moving to a smaller place. At first I wasn’t happy I moved it to a smaller bedroom where it really shines. Didn’t used to play on low volume, but that’s where it shines. The 3 unit is still holding up after around 20 years though the 3 disc changer unit died yesterday. The changer was always noisy, and I guess it ate itself up. Motor died.
Just received a Bose Wave IV unit....and it was one of the most gutless systems I've ever used. I don't mind not having bluetooth (it saved us money). But, the complete lack of bass, not to mention how under-powered it was, was unforgivable for a Bose product. The volume was OK....although, when maxed out, was hardly earth-shattering. And, the bass was so non-existent, I thought something was wrong initially, and I just needed to adjust it. Well, you get two bass settings "Normal", and "less". So, when set on "normal", it was pathetic. The Bose mini, literally out performed this unit in all areas, INCLUDING bass...(aside from a bit more volume from the Wave). We bought two of these, with the assumption it was an exponentially better unit, and was floored out how incompetent the unit was. We had it packaged and ready to send back before they were even registered and delivered. VERY disappointed in Bose, given we have over 5 different Bose products in use as of this comment.
I had that same issue when I bought mine. I learned that you have to put the wave radio by a wall to get any bass. I got better bass response when I placed it on a shelf under my TV stand. With that said, I got mine on sale for $300 USD. At $300 USD, it's an okay system. At $500 USD, absolutely not!
@@mi-da2920 It's funny you mentioned that....because we have two Bose Mini's and that's exactly how they responded. We have a little mini bay-window kind of cut-out we put it in, and it's stunning how good that little unit sounds like that. Something about a concave shelf with the glass of a window that increases the sound quality exponentially. But, this one is just too big, and like you said at that price, I don't think I should haven't to make those kinds of adjustments. The bright-side is that I was able to talk my financial advisor (better known as my wife) into investing in an "audiophile" type of setup. So, it all worked out. 👍
These are marketed as bedside table-top alarm clocks. They sold thousands of them to hotels who used them as such. They were never meant to be used as high end concert hall systems for large rooms. When used as intended they are perfect.
@@gfriedman99 By "used as intended" I'm assuming you mean turning it on and hearing it from 5ft away. You apparently had a completely different system, a better quality model, or used it in a setting well outside of Bose's own marketing, and suggestions. That, or your expectations are so low that you don't deserve to have an opinion on the topic. Or, worse yet, your tongue is so far up Bose's @ss that you don't have the ability to look at ANY of their products objectively, and/or are paid to give your sh!t-head version of "Nuh-uh", when you see an honest review. We purchased two of these, and both were gutless pieces of sh!t, compared to the other, smaller, cheaper Bose speakers we've had for going on 10yrs. You're acting like we took it to the local arena, expecting 60K watts out of it, while I ran a jack-hammer 300ft away. It was sitting on a kitchen counter RIGHT where the other Bose system was that we were replacing that, again, was cheaper, and smaller. Not a high-end "concert hall", dumb@ss..... Regardless, absolutely nothing about this unit mentioned it being a gutless, thin-sounding "alarm clock" meant for hotels where people don't venture more than 3ft from it, with absolutely no other sounds happening at the same time, or are in the room to use it 90% of the time. Had it said something even REMOTELY close to that we never would've purchased it. You're the type of moron that also makes me want to bring up the constant issues we've had with a few of their products, as well. Bose isn't the untouchable God's you're making them out to be. They're products sound great (hence why we own so many)...but, they've developed on-going quality issues, as of the past 10yrs. *At some point in your life, you're going to have to take responsibility for you lack of intelligence, and account for the stupid sh!t that comes out of your mouth.*
