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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.
It is a great investment and it is portable. This unit handles R&B quite well, so I know anyone who listens to acoustic driven or classical music, will be more than pleased with this unit. For the size of the unit, it performs really well. This is a great unit. Don't listen or go by the negative reviews. I am a R&B lover. In the advertisements they drive the consumer to listen to acoustically driven music hence the name of the unit. A lot of the times R&B is very bass heavy.
It is rich and room filling at all sound levels. This is a great item don't hesitate if you want a one piece masterpiece. I bought this for my study. It is expensive.yes, you get what you pay for. Pax. I wanted a simple all in one, plug and play. I got SO much more.
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