Originally Posted By: Bornyo
I lucked into a Bose Wave Radio. I know there are some things out there that sound better for less, but damn that little thing sounds amazing.

Originally Posted By: tattypatty
my mom has a bose she can't operate. is the sound really that good?

Originally Posted By: Bornyo
It sounds startlingly nice for something so small. The audiophiles say it only sounds good to someone who doesn't know truly good sound, but then again they get off on such snobbery. The controls are very streamlined and remote dependent so an older person may have some difficulty.

"The audiophiles" are a strange bunch.

What Bose does well with their speakers is designing them so that they look good and sound all right for their size.
This is achieved via distortion, I think, so that various frequencies are attenuated.
For them to sound better they'd probably have to be bigger and not a lot of people actually want a home cinema setup with big speakers in their living room because they like it. It makes a difference though.