• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Bose Acoustic Wave Radio

B

baxterspots

Hi!
I've got a first generation Bose Acoustic Wave radio that won't power on. When plugged in, nothing happens. Has anyone ever played with these enough to know some common problems? I'm thinking the transformer is show - but spare/replacement parts are hard to come by. Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated!
 
They do - but they won't even look at this - its a first generation wave and they say they don't work on them anymore - they offered to givee me $500 towards the purchase of a new wave - but I'd think I can get it fixed for less than that.
 
baxterspots said:
They do - but they won't even look at this - its a first generation wave and they say they don't work on them anymore - they offered to givee me $500 towards the purchase of a new wave - but I'd think I can get it fixed for less than that.
Click to expand...
When I bought mine, they were around $400 new. They're giving $500 toward a new one?
 
They should be ashamed, not proud.
Bose is a marketing company, maybe an AUDIO manufacturer, but they aren't a radio company.

Any radio that cuts off high frequencies at 3500 hz is NOT acceptable for broadcast listening.
They ought to provide some SWL bands on their radios, as long as they tailored the audio for a 31m pileup.
Too bad they weren't around in 1967 when there was something to listen to on SW.


Oh, and They didn't invent the tuned acoustic labyrinth. That was invented by Stromberg-Carlson in the 1930s.

I'd say let it rot in peace and avoid all radios that are only "half a radio"; (AM worthless).
 
I bought one of these in a local thrift store for $14.00 several years ago. It would not power on. I don't remember if the clock came on or not. I found a low value resistor in the power supply open. I dont know what the value was because it was burnt to bad. I guessed at the value and put in something like a .5 ohm. That has been 5 years ago and it is still working today.

Good luck
 
Tom Wells said:
They should be ashamed, not proud.
Bose is a marketing company, maybe an AUDIO manufacturer, but they aren't a radio company.

Any radio that cuts off high frequencies at 3500 hz is NOT acceptable for broadcast listening.
They ought to provide some SWL bands on their radios, as long as they tailored the audio for a 31m pileup.
Too bad they weren't around in 1967 when there was something to listen to on SW.


Oh, and They didn't invent the tuned acoustic labyrinth. That was invented by Stromberg-Carlson in the 1930s.

I'd say let it rot in peace and avoid all radios that are only "half a radio"; (AM worthless).
Click to expand...

Yes, the AM section is pretty worthless. However, run a wideband AM tuner through the AUX inputs and it does sound nice.

To that end, I also feel the Bose sound systems are more hype than they are worth. I had a Tivoli Audio Model One radio that impressed me, especially the price compared to Bose. Granted it was mono but it sounded great.
 
This brings up a good question, what is the best radio for AM that is still around and what is the best AM radio for a cheap price also. By the way if this ends up stealing a thread i will restart it but lets see.
 
"No highs. No Lows. Must be...BOSE." (as the old saying goes)

The Wave also smokes easily in the presence of high AM RF fields. Have a good friend who lived about two miles from our array right in the southern lobe of our day pattern, where the RMS field is the equivalent of 46kw nondirectional at that distance. He loved some of our talk shows, particularly morning drive and was a daily listener, but his Bose Wave AM section went POOF one day. FM still worked.

He sent it back for service and the factory just repair-exchanged it for a new one. That one lasted about 6 months before failing in exactly the same manner.

I had a very nice GE bakelite All American Five from the 1950s sitting at the station; cleaned it up and gave it to him. He was still listening to it daily last I knew. He thought it sounded better than the Wave's AM. And he was right.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom