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On the other hand, other manufactures utilize technologies that bolster unnaturally the bass, treble and mid range settings. In short, when I read a criticism like, "there are no bass are treble controls", then it is clear that some people do not understand this audio technology. Furthermore, if one would acquire a CD from say Pat Metheny or the Pat Metheny Group (it should be noted that Pat and his team are most likely at the top the music industry in terms of Audio Producing as the sound quality of all his is work is outstanding) and play it in a Bose Acoustic Wave II Music Guide system, in a large room with reasonable to good acoustics and at a high volume, then I am very confident that many people would be incredibly impressed. I have read online from websites like Cnet some reviews of the Bose Acoustic Wave II music system and it is clear to me that many of the reviews are made by people who are not audio-aficionados. The point is that this acoustic wave music guide accurately reproduces life like sound.
Born To Mack 2 of my favorite albums) the bass isn't felt, as intended. The quality of sound at high volume levels seems impossible from such a small unit. I have moved countless times including multiple moves between CA/HI and it still sounds/looks as good as it did 10+ yrs ago. I also bought the carrying case.
I bought the Bose AWMS2 when it first came out. It still sounds great. The only negative is that with hard-hitting gangsta rap/hip hop (life is. The quality of sound reproduction, for all genres of music, is amazing.
As far as durability: To this day I have experienced no problems with either. Absolutely worth every cent. Rock, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Rap, HipHop, R&B, Classical, World Music: All sound great. It has always been my main stereo.
Beware Bose will not sell you any part if it goes bad. Now that is service. I have never had any reliability problems but I use it as a boom box.
So you are buying a $1000 almost disposable product. Bose was more than willing to sell me a new discounted Wave rather than sell me $3 worth of rubber belts. One time I called Mcintosh for a var diode and they sent it to me free of charge.
I have the 1st AW1 with a tape player I bought around 1990. This is so their repair centers can extort a labor charge for repair. Also, the 901 speaker surrounds rot out.
So 20 years is pretty good reliability. I wanted tape player belts and they refuse to sell it.
Do yourself a favour: listen to a new item and then review itBose Acoustic Wave Music System II - Graphite Gray]] It was probably stolen and damaged by some miscreant. This is a wonderfull system and worth every penny - and more. The gentleman from Washington tested a used one in the pawn shop.
Not a one. This machine would properly play ONLY commercially produced CDs.
I certainly hope they all aren't like this.Aside from its CD performance, I checked its bass response, which cut off sharply below about 40 cycles per second, which is ok if you only listen to pop music [the sharp cut-off makes electric bass sound more prominent], but if you like pipe organs and such, it makes [CD recordings of] them sound as though the organist's pedals below low E are non-functional, with a bit of a "one-note-bass" quality. I can see why it ended up in the pawnshop on this fault alone.
I got to hear one of these Acoustic Wave II radios in a local pawnshop. It played it mostly OK, with an occasional glitch.
Based on these 2 faults, I would not waste $1100 on a brand-new one, much less $400 for a used one in a pawnshop. I put some of my home-burnt CDRs into it and it would not play them without hiccupping.
Just to see if this machine would take only commercially produced CDs, i grabbed one off the shelf and put it in- Voila.
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