No buttons
I had the old bose... it broke. I ordered the new bose. What?! No buttons! I HAVE TO USE THE REMOTE! I will never buy from bose again.

Superior sound!!
I thought about buying a Bose for years. Then I started looking at it seriously for several months before making the purchase. I am a very frugal person. I finally bought it and am VERY, VERY pleased with it. The sound is equal to the sound on our old stereo system with the large cumbersome speakers.

I have been using the Bose in our bedroom, but am looking into buying another for the kitchen or living room. The Bose Wave Music System is money well spent.

Slighly odd redesign and missing some features in the original Bose Wave
The sound quality is still good, but the Wave II is missing some features the original Wave had - for example:

1. Unlike the original Wave, there are no buttons on the unit - just try using the fiddly remote when you're half asleep. Impossible!

2. You can't program CD track ordering.

3. There is only one alarm. The original Wave had two alarms. Oddly enough, if you look closely with a torch, the front panel display on the Wave II has available digits to show a second alarm time, just below where the (first) alarm time is shown; the display also has alarm 1 and alarm 2 indicators as well. But the remote only has buttons to set a single alarm. Odd!

4. The original Wave, via a special key combination, would show you how much power was left in the backup battery. The Wave II doesn't do this.


Also, for UK customers, the DAB module is an ugly plastic separate box. At this price it should be built in.

plastic junk at hundreds dollar a pound
It seems that I am far from alone among those who find this plastic box doesn't work for many cds, some of which are even brand new by majors such as EMI, and all of which play perfectly in my much cheaper, Chinese made Sony cd players. After all, it is 21st century and cd player making has never been rocket science. Now this shameful 0 piece of junk even cannot get that right. Turning the box over, one finds "made in USA" on the bottom. No wonder! Such products will certainly become extinct in the near future and have no one else to blame.

sounds nice but keeps turning on by itselrf
I was very excited to finally get my own wave system. I bought the extra remote and got the ipod charger/player conncecion for free with the unit. I very much like the system overall but once in a while, it just goes on by itself. I dont know if it is possibly a neighbor using thier own remote and accidentally triggering my system or whether my system is defective. that is my only complaint however; I am very happy with the unit otherwise.