Bose is Amazing!!!!

[Resident Loser]

...and at the risk of repeating myself, my particular situation places the unit on a shelf that allows it to be situated as per placement guidelines...and it sounds quite good in the process. To reiterate what I have previously stated, if you just plunk it down any ol' place, performance will suffer and while it's not "across" it certainly is beyond "arm's reach"...just at a 90degree angle, not a 180...

Alarms and sooze? I recently purchased an Onkyo MC35TECH mini-system to play with, and it has alarms and timers of all sorts...it consists of a receiver and a three-disc CDP and two, reasonably accurate, bass-reflex loudspeakers...it's considered a stereo...does it outperform the Wave?...well, yes and no...obviously having two loudspeakers I can juggle, gives it a better image and sounstage, but...it's a bigger footprint which just won't fit were the Bose goes...and given the Wave's positioning, relative to my listening position, image isn't a problem...so it's a series of trade-offs...plug'n'play simplicity...I'm sure that comes into play more often than not...dorm rooms, small offices...folks who couldn't be bothered or are technically challenged...again aimed at a market, pure an simple...

And perhaps, in a rethink of their marketing strategy, the greedy, slimey, corrupt, world dominating gorilla, decided to remove the onus of "clock radio" by simply removing those buttons...furthermore once you integrate other functions(i.e. a CDP) it does become a "system" by the very definiton of the word...I mean they still sell a Wave Radio in addition to it...

As an addendum, they have this wonderful product available to help preclude dropping things into the monstrously gaping holes of floor vents...it's called screening...

jimHJJ(...yeah, that's the ticket...)