Quote Originally Posted by Resident Loser
...how to approach this?...well, here goes...

"...Your limited experience seems to have left out the fact that clock radios and home theater systems are typically operated differently..."

Gee golly wilikers, no?...really?...fancy that!!!...having never seen the commercial and/or without any familiarity with the radio's said purpose, the only folks I have ever seen refer to it as a "clock radio"(with all that it infers) are the dyed-in-the-wool Bose bashers. If I may quote from the owners manual(available for your perusal @ the Bose website), in addition to a few other placement guidelines, advises:

"To enjoy maximum performance, place your Wave Music System across the room from where you will be listening"

Doesn't sound like the mfr. expects the unit to be viewed as a clock radio(in the traditional knock-over-the-lamp-and-phone-to-shut-the-d@mn-thing-off manner)...There isn't any room for it to be sitting on my nightstand, so it's up on the shelf, out of harms way...with controls that can only be reached with a step stool. Buttons, we don' need no stinkin' buttons...
If they expect this thing to be placed across the room like an full size audio system, then they really need to poll more people who buy those things. I don't personally know anyone who listens to a Wave radio while sitting across the room. People I know who use those things use them as a desktop radio or as an alarm clock in their bedroom. If Bose had not intended for people to use it as an alarm clock, then why would they include the alarm function AND a snooze function? If they really intend for it to function solely as a music system, then why not eliminate the clock and alarm functions along with the buttons? My receiver and boom box don't have a clock or an alarm.

Who do you know of that uses a wireless remote for any device that's within arm's reach? If you think it's smart design for a device used in this manner to come with no buttons, then by all means enjoy yourself!

Every review of the old Wave radio I ever read referred to it as a clock radio or as a tabletop radio. I mean, after all that thing displayed the time on the front panel and had a bunch of buttons on the top of the unit, one of which was a snooze button. Gosh, Bose eliminates the buttons and instantly it's a "music system" and not a "clock radio"! Lots of semantics, but not a whole lotta substance. I guess everybody from the old Stereo Review to What Hi-Fi are all just Bose bashers because they dare to say "clock radio"!

Quote Originally Posted by Resident Loser
The remote is the size of a credit card and about as thick as three to five of 'em...it's shape(thickness-wise)easily tells you which way is up, regardless of whatever shape you're in AND the position of the required button is pretty easy to remember after about the second or third use...of course, YMMV...AND it has hit the floor with no tragic consequences...plus no broken lamps, etc. As I said, as long as my wife puts it where it belongs, finding and using it doesn't really tax my abilities...face down in the pillow and such...
Again, why even bother with a remote, when a button serves that function better from within arm's reach? Seems like designers gone amuck, and forgetting that form needs to follow function. If you feel the aesthetics trump the functionality, then you're obviously their target customer.

Quote Originally Posted by Resident Loser
Well, I suppose...but, if you have holes big enough to drop the remote into, the size of the thing wouldn't be MY chief worry...with holes THAT big, I suppose another "possibility" is for a Venezuelan fruit bat to fly in and carry it off mistaking it for the odd block of guava paste...it could happen!!!...and I don't know about you, but I rarely use my shop vac with it's 4in. diameter hose to "tidy" the bedroom...or living room for that matter...

jimHJJ(...still seems like much ado about nothing...)
Plenty of homes have the ventilation ducts running through the floor. I used to live in a place like that, and things that would fall into the vents included coins, keys, credit cards, watches, etc. A dinky remote would easily fit as well. If you got issues with Venezuelan fruit bats, then you should hire an exterminator.