Bose Wave SoundTouch Music System - Graphite Gray

I purchased this with my siblings for our parents for Christmas. They have always wanted one but never could justify spending so much. The price is high, but if you love music and you want to hear it at its best, then buy this. Radio stations, CD's, and Pandora sounds amazing and the sounds does fill the room.The only negative thing about the product is the app is a little on the ugly side. It works perfectly fine, just not as flashy as many mainstream apps. With that said the app is easy to use and acts as a remote on any smart phone or tablet.My mom uses it every day and she loves it. My dad looks forward to buying one of the smaller portable Bose speakers so that he can bring the music outside on the deck this summer.

Very happy with the prompt shipping. Love the sound! Available information included should you need it. Really pleased.

This sound system is absolutely amazing. I just plugged it in and downloaded the sound touch ap from Bose. With no wires or separate speakers, the sound is wonderful and fills the space it occupies. If the volume is turned up, it can be listened to comfortably from another floor. It is easily set up to connect to a router and then can be controlled from a computer, an iPad or an iPhone. This includes your own iTune library and Pandora streaming music (if you choose). I now control the type of music, individual songs or artists as well as the volume and the on/ off switch remotely. This incredible machine can also be turned on or off with a soft touch on it's top surface.

My Bose is now 4 months old. CD function has never worked well. Now it has completely stopped ejecting the CD. Repair on this expensive, four month old product takes one month, and I have to pay for shipping back to Bose for repair. It does have amazing sound. I had to purchase the antenna because the reception on the Bose was so poor. My old, cheap music system had better reception. I am not feeling great about my purchase of the Bose.

A very good product with wonderful sound.The software set-up is a little complicated and if you're not technically gifted, a call to Bose customer support may prove mandatory. But the customer support is fabulous and fabulously patient. The only disappointments are 1) Your ITunes account isn't automatically available to the SoundTouch, though it apparently can be accessed. (It wasn't obvious how and the explanation from Bose customer support quickly faded from my memory) 2) the SoundTouch doesn't communicate directly through Bluetooth to the Bose wireless speakers we already owned.So in our home, this works as a stand-alone radio and CD player, and does it very well.

Great alarm and stero/cd player

So, what we have here is a Bose Wave radio/CD player, with the add-on pedestal that provides wi-fi capability and AirPlay streaming. The Bose Wave is a Bose Wave; you know how they sound and how they work. I like them, I own one, and my review will focus on the "upgrade" from my existing Wave III to this system. Or rather, my attempted upgrade.I'm also not going to focus, in this review, on the fact that it never actually managed to connect to my wifi network. Bose declared it defective, and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on that. They also bungled the return, but that review is for the seller, not the item, and I've already written it.The question for this review is whether you should replace your existing Wave III with this model, or whether you should pay the $100 premium over the Wave III pricing for this model.What you get for your extra $100 is the pedestal you see under the radio itself, which connects via the proprietary "BoseLink" port to the radio, and provides the wireless functionality. In order to set it up, you must download and install a proprietary application from Bose, the Mac version of which is laughingly amateurish (the installer, for instance, says that "My Project" wants to make changes to your system, indicating they didn't bother to change the name of the project when creating the application; this is akin to sending out a resume called "New Document").You connect your laptop (yes, you need a laptop, or at least, a computer on your wifi network and within a USB cable's length of the radio, and it must be the computer from which you mean to stream music -- see below) to the pedestal and open the app. It connects to the pedestal, and you provide your network signon information. Why this couldn't be done via a web browser, we don't know. You also have to create an account with Bose, for no reason that I could determine.After installing the application, you will have a new application running all the time on your computer, the "Soundtouch Music Server." You may ask, "Doesn't Apple already make software for serving music?" Yes, they do. It's called iTunes. Apparently Bose didn't know this and wrote their own instead. This software must be running on the computer you wish to stream music from."Wait!" you say. "THE computer? You can only stream from one computer? Doesn't Airplay allow you to stream from any system?" Yes, it does. I don't know what this server does or why they require you to install it.In any case, once you complete all this, the pedestal then connects to your wifi network. If it doesn't, you will soon find yourself on your hands and knees squinting into a tiny hole looking for the world's smallest status light, as you hold down an unlabeled "control" button.At that point, you may find yourself wondering why you're going through this ridiculous rigmarole. The back of every Bose Wave system has an "Aux" port for an external sound source. Apple sells a $95 device called an Airport Express, which you plug into any outlet and configure quickly and easily without amateur-hour software. The AX has an audio jack into which you plug a standard (not proprietary, not expensive) 1/8" stereo cable. You plug the other end of that cable into the Aux port of your Bose Wave. The AX shows up as an AirPlay device on all your AirPlay-capable systems, and you are now able to stream music from any of them to your Bose Wave. No ugly pedestal. No "Bose Link" cable. No proprietary application. And it takes less time to set up than it will take you to reach the first (of five) representatives you need to reach before you can return this overpriced item.Save yourself the trouble. Bose does some things well, but wireless connectivity is not one of them.

Excellent unit.... it's a Bose. For apple devices to play music directly you MUST and can only use airplay, and you can only play on one of these units at a time. Your music library for streaming must be served up by a DLNA compliant server from an NAS or from a windows computer with media sharing turned on. With the streaming function you can link multiple SoundTouch systems together and control them from the Bose app. Radio reception is also good on these units, I live in the country so it has to be. :) As always the sound is impeccable. Internet radio streaming is well thought out and easy to configure.