What does a $500 clock radio look like? Bose supplies the answer: the new Wave Radio/CD. The selling point for the Wave Radio/CD ($499 on the Web site, www.bose.com) is its big sound and small ...

Bose invites you to build your own boom ... you connected your personal portable – whether a radio, cassette or CD player – to the left speaker. When you did this, you had what sounded like ...