Bose Wave Music system

I went to the website that Hgeifman cited for the Boston Acoustics Micros system. Can anyone shed further light onto this system? At $499 it's the same price as the Bose and I'm assuming is better considering that it's Boston Acoustics.

I bought a used one for my office and it is just fine. Not great but other people tell me all that time that it sounds great. I think the sound is a bit open with a lack of detail and really sloppy bass responce. But I am comparing it to a $70000 system. So for the money I do not think you will be disappointed. And I have never had a problem with it mechanically.

I have 2, one at home for kids to play CD and one in the office for radio. The sound is ok at best. In my opinion, $499 is complete waste of money, if you have enough space, buy some shelf system for the same amount of money is much better. The only advantage is compact.

We always spend part of the winter holidays down at the Virginia shore with another family, who usually bring along their Wave (of which they are, like most nonaudiophile owners, quite proud), to provide some background music in the rental house. Naturally, being a curious audiophile, I once decided to grab some of my own disks from the car and spend a little time finding out how well it could really play. Bottom line: I certainly wouldn't buy one. Of course I kept this to myself -- my apologies to the satisfied owners above -- but the only reaction exceeding my annoyance with its marginal sound (not in ridiculous comparison with audiophile systems, and not just relative to the hyperbole proffered by Herbie Hancock ads and innocent owners, but in absolute terms for a device in its category) was my contempt at the money asked. I feel there's not much else to this admittedly attractively designed product beyond a truly brilliant marketing scheme (or should I say scam).

Zaikesman, for the money ($499) is there something in particular that you would recommend? I'm looking for something simple.