No advantage. The wave music system has been around for years. The original connection that is used for the Bluetooth was called Boselink. Bose loves to reuse existing platforms or make adapters to prevent having to completely redesign and rebuild a system. So they took the easy way out and built an adapter, rather than redesign a new board and a new wave system that had long paid for itself in the past. It's a lazy solution. But it works. Answer from DennyCrane2002 on reddit.com
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r/bose on Reddit: Why doesn't the Bose Wave Music System IV have Bluetooth built in?
November 25, 2022 -
Saw this on QVC and I noticed that for Bluetooth capability you have to plug in something externally to an outlet. Why doesn't it just have Bluetooth built in? Is there some advantage of having it separate like that?
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No advantage. The wave music system has been around for years. The original connection that is used for the Bluetooth was called Boselink. Bose loves to reuse existing platforms or make adapters to prevent having to completely redesign and rebuild a system. So they took the easy way out and built an adapter, rather than redesign a new board and a new wave system that had long paid for itself in the past. It's a lazy solution. But it works.
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In many countries the Wave Music Systems were discontinued when they released the SOundTouch version (which had BT). I think in some markets there was still a call for the simplified (non-wifi) version. Since then there hasn't been a need to change - WMS if you don't want external connections, Wave SoundTouch if you do.
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r/bose on Reddit: Best way to stream audio to Bose Wave Music System IV
May 28, 2024 -
I scored a Bose Wave Music System IV from my parents place. What is the best way these days to stream apple music / spotify from my iphone to it?
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The Bose Wave System IV had an optional Bluetooth adapter available from Bose this purpose. There's one on eBay here , you may find it cheaper if you Google around. Otherwise any good Bluetooth receiver plugged into the aux jack, such as this one should do the trick.
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Aux in? Plug an Alexa into it or a WiiM mini.
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r/bose on Reddit: What was the point of the Bose Wave Music System?
July 16, 2025 -
I recently finished fixing the CD drive and lid on a wave system I got off of the side of the road.
For free, I love this thing. It’s neat, it sounds plenty nice. I love the detachable base just because it has an air of opulence to it, like driving a car with a CD changer. It reads CDs a little slow but that’s mostly because WD-40 isn’t a great replacement for the original track grease.
But I’m curious about it from a 2006 perspective. Who was this product even made for?
As far as I can tell, given the detachable base with multiple audio inputs and a built in power strip, this was meant to be a speaker system, not just a really nice CD Player.
At its original $1,000 dollar price point, is it not demonstrably worse quality/$ than a more standard home audio system? Hell, even if you wanted to stick with Bose, I think it still would have been cheaper to get one of the smaller Waves and then wire that into a Bose speaker system.
The only real benefits I see to it is that it’s mildly more compact, and marginally less complicated than a bespoke stereo system (you don’t have to run any wires but the power cable, I suppose), but I just feel like that is not a large enough benefit to justify this product existing or purchasing it.
Does anyone else have some other perspective that I might be overlooking, or is this just a relic to the fact that people have been buying expensive things that have brand recognition for decades now?
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This was the first Bose product I worked on (UI). I still had one of these until the CD mech stopped working.. This thing gets SUPER loud. Perfect for large rooms or small venues. Sounded incredible in addition to being loud. Internally it was called Frank (for Frankenstein). It's a majestic beast. There was even a nice carrying bag made available for it.
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I think it was for the customer who wanted the Bose Brand (and sound) and wanted an everything all in one audio system. My grandparents bought that model (the CD-3000) in 1996 and bought every single accessory, the pedestal as shown, the powered microphone, the carrying case, and the battery pack. They used this for everything. Of course 99% of the time it was used to listen to their CDs in their living room (and it definitely was loud enough to hear throughout the house) but for events such as the family Christmas party they'd put it in the case, load up the microphone and turn it into the PA system for the Christmas party. For the 4th of July they'd put it in the carrying case with the battery and take it to be the radio to listen to that were synchronized with the fireworks. It was a beast for sure. Theirs had to have the CD mechanism replaced once in the early 2000s by a service center and the CD mech died again in roughly 2010 so at that time we just got them a new AWMSII. Unfortunately that unit no longer supported the power mic, but it did support MP3 CD which was nice. My grandparents are sadly gone but I did keep their AWMSII and it still is in my game room to this day.