NONE for the price!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!EXPENSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! poor sound! $50 CSW PCworks sound better!

OK, the Wave Radio makes me extremely angry. All I have to say is MODEL88CD which is $150 cheaper!! I dont understand why people buy a Bose Wave Radio! Its the most overpriced thing ever! If you want to spend $400 for a small stereo, go buy a Megaworks 210D or even a beautiful Megaworks 215 and hook it up to a Musicworks center station!! Lets compare... Bose Wave Radio-table radio, not loud, decent sound, not great, EXPENSIVE! Cambridge soundworks Megaworks 210D (not even the Megaworks 215, which is much better and still cheaper than the bose!) Amazing sound, extremely powerfull yet it can play amazingly at quiet volumes. The sub (11'H-11'W-11'D) can be hidden anywhere. The satallites are tiny and beautiful and give you a much better choice for placement. All you will have showing is the music works, which is tiny, and the satallites! All of this is even smaller than the Wave Radio! The Model88CD is amazing, sounds better than the Bose, and is much cheaper. So if you want to go with a table radio, I dont know why you would, buy a Model88CD from CSW Even a CSW PC WORKS sounds much better! and it costs $50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Cambridge soundworks Model 88 CD

check this out http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html

great room filling sound

It's way over priced if you can find this cheaper than ~$400 I've never heard of it

I live and swear by this product. This is said to posess the qualitys of a true to form stereo system packed into an alarm clock and it does. I would recommend this to anyone who can afford this over priced alarm clock

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kloss model 88 many sony models

Intuitive, useful, thoughtful features.

Programming feature needs improvement. Operation needs to be more conducive to dark enviroment. As for sound, a little less bass and more clarity in the high would be nice.

Most reviews seem to be focusing on the sound quality and thus understandably harsh. The sounds are not superb, but that is well expected. You should have B&Ws and Mcintoshes to do that job. The beauty of this system is in versatility and electronics, not sound quality. This device's main task is to put you to sleep nicely and wake you up pleasantly, with occasional quick listening of CDs. And it does its tasks with near perfection. You can use this to put you to sleep at volume level 20 (it comes with really easy to operate sleep-timing feature as well) and wake you up the next morning at volume level 70, without adjusting the volume in the middle of the night. This feature alone is quite something -- there are not many devices like that in the market. Each alarm setting has independent volume control, in addition to automatic ramping. One really useful feature is nap-alarm: you can set the alarm (or CD) to sound within 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, etc., so that you can count on it to take a nap. Best of all, it is packed with subtle and thoughtful touches. When you switch from CD to AUX or radio and then go back to CD, it starts playing the CD from the point you left, not from the beginning. The display pannel adjusts brightness automatically in response to the surrounding light condition. Most features require one touch only -- you can even open the CD cover to take it out in the middle of playing without pressing stop button, and it will play the new CD automatically as well. You will soon find that someone really put much thought into designing this thing. Convenience is not something useful for novices only -- it is real and extremetly useful for everyone, especially for a machine with a purpose such as this. You sould be able to operate it while half asleep. My complaints are quite limited: programming is cumbersome (you must press two buttons simultaneously etc.) and once programmed, cannot be repeated as pushing the repeat button will erase the programming. But then again, I suppose not many people will try to program on this machine. Also, it would have been useful to have lighted remote control (or at least lighted button top on machine) as this thing would be extensively operated in dark in bedside. Those who accuse people who pay this much (yes, I did pay full USD 500 for this) to buy an alarm radio clock are being quite unfair, in my humble opinion. People have different priorities and care about different things. I have a used television set that cost me USD 200 because I hardly watch it, and a stereo system that cost me nearly the price of a brand new auto. Sleeping and waking up are something I take very seriously, and I wanted a machine that could assist me do that best. The fact of the matter is, I could not find one that I liked at any price, save for this product. So what if Sonys and Aiwas are much cheaper and sound better? So what if putting together a system with a little research would produce far better sound? Pure and simple, they don't have the features I am looking for. Someone suggested buying a good system and a cheap alarm clock. That does not address my need. I want a perfect alarm CD radio that I can use my lifetime to help me with sleep and wake-up. USD 500 isn't much considering the benefits I will be ripping from this for the rest of my life.

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Sony CD Radio Clock

Excellent for quality late night listening before sleeping. The radio wake up in the morning is great. The volume is ramped up to preselected level avoided nasty loud start. The remote control function very useful when listening in bed. The Aux input is handy for connecting to outside audio source. The clock display is easy to see and very practical as I tend to lose track of time when listening to radio/CDs. The display brightness is adjustable for nighttime.

The unit is very placement sensitive. I found that the difference in sound quality between poor location and firm setup, such as described above is very noticable. The unit is small by hi-fi standards with limited distance between the speakers which result in fairly tight ideal listening position about 6ft away from centre line.

I was very impressed by the solid sound when demonstrated in the Bose shop.I decided to install unit using strong speaker wall bracket. The bass sounded boomy, making image muddled and uninteresting. To address this I bonded 30cm x 15cm tile onto speaker carrier, then placing Bose wave radio on this. Improvment was observed, though bass resonance persisted especially on commercial radio stations. I modified setup by placing two high density driveway bricks, one under each end of Bose unit, so it now sits on a heavy platform. The bricks were fixed using hot melt glue. I carefully bonded wave radio unit feet to top of bricks creating a very solid structure. The bass performance now sounds much tighter and more focused allowing better perception of soundstage. Voices sound far more accurate and AM stations, especially BBC, sounded fine. I must stress at this point that, due to weight, attention must be given to strength of wall speaker bracket and quality of fixing to wall.

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Radios with sleep/alarm functions,including Sony ICF 7600.

Everything is good, very little lacking

RF remote with alarm contols would have been a nice touch... A tad pricy for a clock radio with CD but it does the job MP3 CD playback would have a been a big plus.

The Bose CD Wave CD Radio is a little wonder... While it didnt cost me anything (long story) I would have got one sooner or later...now my parents have one too. Like many of the comments there has to be some perspective. No its not a BIG sound systems ... No its not that feature packed ... No its not a CD changer / DVD boom box Yes its small and damn easy too operate Even my wife and parents can figure it out - and I am quite sure most people out there are not into running wires all over the place and reading 400 page manuals just to be able to do this.... Go to sleep at night with a cd of your choice and at a nice volume. No have a display that acts like a night light when the lights are out. Wake up in the morning to a radio station that I like and at a volume that is different to what I like to dose off to. And wake someone else up later in the morning with something that they like - perhaps a different station / beeping or whatever. It even keeps the clock and time and stations all set in memory with a backup battery if the power goes off. All in all this does everything I need at the bedside but make coffee. Every home should have at least one!

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JVC XU-1 - too big, no second alarm, and lit up the room all night I also have numerous other Bose products - and even more non Bose stuff

Convenience, stylish, it does look expensive

Overpriced if you want the best sound for the pound.

The packaging,features,instruction book, demo disc and aesthetic looks of the Bose are all first class. The natty credit card style remote is stylish too. It looks very classy at the side of my bed, but what about the sound?? I was a little disappointed, it sounds like an average ghetto blaster. Its definately not as good as a similiar prices midi systems. My lap top attached to the Acoustic Energy Aego 2 is definately better in a direct head to head. However lets get put this all in perspective. I think the Bose is for people with spare cash whom can afford a very stylish top of the range clock radio/ cd player. The Bose is very convenient, has lots of features and does sound very good, if compared to other clock radios and cheap ghetto blasters. Unfortunately if one is money concious then you can easily get a better sound for the same money.

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Naim system, Acoustic Energy Aego 2, portable CD and MD

deep bass, clarity, size of unit, availability, line in/out, lots of special features

price.

This is such an incredible system. it is worth the $500. but i found out what the speakers are about. the right speaker is in a sealed enclousre and does not produce deep bass. The left speaker is more beefy and that speaker is in the acoustic waveguide, having the port by the right speaker so it sounds like both speakers are producing the bass. that is why when you go to bose store, ghey have a demo that lets you pull 1 speaker out and notice the difference. thats it! they only let you pullout the LEFT! but it still soundsa incredible and you can compare the sound at moderate levekls to some shelf systms. it sonds espically great on jazz. Very easy to use, would reccomend it to anyone.

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shelf systems, home theater system, clock radio.

Great sound, especially with Jazz. Has a rich bass for the small size. I love the remote and the clock's dimming feature.

It is expensive, even for a used radio.

I bought mine used but in excellent condition off Ebay. It was seldom used by previous owner and kept in a guest bedroom. I am very pleased with the sound and may soon purchase another one with CD from Ebay for another room.

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Regular clock radios. Comparing it to other larger stereo systems is like comparing apples to oranges.

loud, wide, and flexible

not all things to all people (you idiots)

Listen, folks. No matter what the money, you can NOT get such a quality unit for the size and portability. It sounds GREAT outside thanks to the amazing soundstage. It sounds quite good as a TV's speaker replacements. It is not a full-size system, nor is it a bookshelf. It is a portable, sound-pumping machine that lacks a superior, not even an equal.