bose wave music systems

senor rubirosa · 05-14-2008

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Originally Posted by JMeister

Ah! the Marantz has problems. Sell it on Ebay, get a Teac and you'll be able to crank up the tunes to your heart's content without sacrificing sound quality.

Possible that the Teac can do that. I'm waiting for reviews, etc.

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OTOH you might have a tin ear like VeeP in which case the Bose would be fine but waaaaaaaaay overpriced. Got to the Target and get a Tivoli clone for $60 and spend the savings on sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

Well, JMeister, I'll let you and VeeP duke that one out.
I already spend all my money on sex, drugs, and Richard Strauss.
The good thing about the savings you offer is that nothing would change.
The bad thing is that nothing would change.

jason_els · 05-14-2008

Ditto on the Tivoli

senor rubirosa · 05-14-2008

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Ditto on the Tivoli

... Jason to Gallipoli
(j/k) ...

jason_els · 05-14-2008

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Originally Posted by senor rubirosa

... Jason to Gallipoli
(j/k) ...

Just remember WHO started this thread and WHAT he asked for.

vince · 05-14-2008

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Originally Posted by senor rubirosa

Thanks to unabear09, XGX, and DC for their (positive) comments on the Bose products.

Vince, I'm delighted to find someone else who has the Mission 770s. Aren't they just phenomenal, especially for their age? I used to run it with a 20-watt NAD amplifier and it sounded like a vastly more expensive system.

JMeister, I hear yuh ... I hear yuh. I have heard disappointing Bose products, but the Wave systems seem to have been considered something special by a lot of people in a lot of reviews. (Not everyone, however.)
But what I really appreciate is your mention of the Teac Reference Series unit.
I assume you mean the CR-H227i-B.
I'd never heard of it before and I assume it's very new, so you don't find any ratings on the Net yet.
But it's small, quite powerful, and cheaper than the Bose Wave Radio (I see one offered for $349.00 US on Amazon). Even has an iPod dock.
Best of all, it would let me keep my Mission speakers in operation.
This just might be it.
(Did you know it looks pretty much identical to the NAD C715 Component Music System? I wonder if they share the same manufacturer.)
Anyway, thanks for the mention.

If I was there I'd whip you up a cabinet that will not sag Rubi.

I had a NAD system back in the day too. With a Rega Planar turntable and Bose 501's. We were stylin'. I sold the lot to buy a steam boiler.

I think you should use those speakers. I know I'll keep mine. Right now I have a Sony blah blah surround system and I wish I had my speakers.

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Sheesh.
So many choices ...
... so lil' tyme.

There's really only one choice.

senor rubirosa · 05-14-2008

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Originally Posted by vince

I had a NAD system back in the day too. With a Rega Planar turntable and Bose 501's. We were stylin'. I sold the lot to buy a steam boiler.

NAD was great.
I had the Bose 901s at one point.

My first stereo was a lil' shit box made by a Canadian company called Noresco. Had that for maybe a year.

But then I got a Quad 33 and 303 amp combo, hooked up to KEF Concerto speaker units in a Radford transmission line enclosure, which I had someone build. It was the bomb.
You know that opening organ pedal note in Also Sprach Zarathustra? I did acid one night with a friend who was living with me in a university residence. We alternated between the Strauss and Derek and the Dominoes' version of Layla, both played at a crazy level.
The opening bars of the Strauss made everything seem to tremble.
The next day, a committee of enraged residents came to bawl us out.
When they knocked on the door, I was wearing hip waders (why? why? why?) and doing a headstand.
I should have been expelled from the residence.
But hey ... I had an excuse ... those bass-thumpin' speakers, which would make the sanest man crazy.
(And in those crazy days, I was halfway to Crazyville already. Badge of honor.)

When I bought the Mission 770s, a friend recommended that I buy the Rega Planar turntable. Instead, I bought a Lenco. He treated me with utter contempt for weeks.

Thanks for your offer, safely hypothetical

, of building me a component stand.
Rubi was almost gang-banged in Essarouira, Morocco. (So near, and yet so far.)
Rubi was mugged in Marrakesh ... for a pair of running shoes.
Rubi was conned out of 80 bucks in Rome ... by a prostitute, a bar manager, and a gorilla of a bouncer.
Rubi's mom lost her waters in the fifth month ... and coughed po' lil' Rubi out in the seventh month, his head so large the docs thought he was probably retarded. (And Vince, this is not the place for jokes.)
Rubi didn't really learn to speak till he was five ... spoke a kind of feral language, understood only by his sistuh.
Po' lil' Rubi's gonna sail ovuh this problem.
But thanks, Vince.
If I ever go to Gallipoli, I'm gonna stop off and see you.
We'll listen to Strauss and take a spin on your Harley.
Promise, dude.

JMeister · 05-14-2008

You want reviews! Here's a review of the Bose Wave Radio by Golden Ear Harvey Gizmo Rosenberg (RIP). If this doesn't convince you nothing will:

THE BOSE WAVE RADIO

For reviews on mini systems check out the British Hi Fi rags. They cover mini systems in detail. Onkyo's mini systems have been highly rated in the past.

senor rubirosa · 05-14-2008

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Originally Posted by JMeister

You want reviews! Here's a review of the Bose Wave Radio by Golden Ear Harvey Gizmo Rosenberg (RIP). If this doesn't convince you nothing will:
THE BOSE WAVE RADIO
For reviews on mini systems check out the British Hi Fi rags. They cover mini systems in detail. Onkyo's mini systems have been highly rated in the past.

That one's very funny, JM.
But actually, the only reviews I'm looking for are on the Teac.

vince · 05-14-2008

Gallipoli and Canakkali are gorgeous. Gang raping and muggings are unlikely, even in Sultanahmet. Getting conned is another thing... (someone is trying to sell me a 1970 750 Norton Commando at the moment)

This guy named Sky had some Altec 'Voice of the Theater" speakers that we would set up outside in the summer and stage woodstock re-enactments. The boiler was working overtime steaming out the rooms for the next crop and for a while we could get brown paper shopping bags full of peyote buttons for $30 American. I think Pat Paulson was running for pres.

btw- no Harley's.

boynextdoorkpt · 05-14-2008

I have bose in my SUV. Mercedes uses Bose audio system in all their cars and I must say it is beyond wonderful!

senor rubirosa · 05-14-2008

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Gallipoli and Canakkali are gorgeous. Gang raping and muggings are unlikely, even in Sultanahmet.

Then what's the point, vince?

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Getting conned is another thing... (someone is trying to sell me a 1970 750 Norton Commando at the moment)

Pretty old for a bike, but there were some wonderful Nortons. (I only know because my best friend of that era was a bike fiend ... had a Norton at one point and gave me many rides.)

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This guy named Sky had some Altec 'Voice of the Theater" speakers that we would set up outside in the summer and stage woodstock re-enactments. The boiler was working overtime steaming out the rooms for the next crop and for a while we could get brown paper shopping bags full of peyote buttons for $30 American.

I thought I was more than an also-ran in the Dissolution Sweepstakes, but maybe not.
Meant to do peyote but never did.
Magic mushrooms, many times, though.

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I think Pat Paulson was running for pres.

What cood a bin, eh, Vince?
(You're Canajun, right? Where from originally? B.C.?)

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btw- no Harley's.

Ah, I'm just riffin' off your avi, vince.
(BSA? BMW? Vespa?

)

senor rubirosa · 05-14-2008

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I have bose in my SUV. Mercedes uses Bose audio system in all their cars and I must say it is beyond wonderful!

Yup, the Bose car audio systems are supposed to be top-notch, bnd.
Your SUV?
Hmmm.

boynextdoorkpt · 05-14-2008

Mercedes uses them in all the SUV's and cars

dong20 · 05-14-2008

Rubi, Bose stuff is damn good, if a bit pricey - I used to have a radio once, dunno what happened to it now I come to think about it!! I've had demo's of their other kit over the years but never purchased any. I went through a 'phase' a good few years back, but my interest in Hi-Fi for it's own sake is all but none existent these days.

On the subject of audio, I just spent the last two or three hours setting up and tweaking a new AV amp (I have a cinema conversion in roof). My old one croaked last weekend and is beyond economical repair so yesterday I made an 'emergency' purchase.

The old one was 'only' 5.1 but I have also added two new speakers and now have a full 7.1 setup. I was 're-acquainting' myself with a selection of DVDs, carefully chosen for acoustic err ... excellence in their various ways. It's really not much more than a budget model (any permanent replacement will have to wait a while) but things at this price point have improved over the years, in some ways anyway - even a calibration mike was thrown in. Great fun, and I was pleasantly impressed - although everything down here now seems rather ... quiet!

senor rubirosa · 05-14-2008

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Originally Posted by boynextdoorkpt

Mercedes uses them in all the SUV's and cars

Well, they won't be using anything mediocre, for sure.

bose wave music systems

Originally Posted by JMeister Ah! the Marantz has problems. Sell it on Ebay, get a Teac and you'll be able to crank up the tunes to your heart's content without sacrificing sound quality. Possible that