What is the best turntable/speaker system for the money? I have a lot of LP's that I would love to play, my old Sansui system was too cumbersome and now I want a good, more compact turntable system. I don't need the equalizer, tape player, radio components. I do not necessarily want to hook up a turntable to my Bose wave system as there seem to be a lot of complaints from people about doing that. Thank you.

SOURCE: Bose Wave AW1 need to know how to safely disassemble it.

Since I was not able to find either an owner's manual, a repair manual,a schematic, or any other help for disassembling or repairing a BoseWave model AW1 online, I had to just experiment with trying to fix theproblem I had with it. Bose also would not accept the unit to bereturned for repair because they said it was too old. They wouldonly offer a small trade in amount on a purchase of a new replacementunit.

So, I first tried removing all the screws on the bottom of the unit tosee how it might be disassembled. While I was able to get thebottom of the unit removed by unplugging four connectors, that did notprovide access to the upper portion of the unit.

Next, I removed screws on each side and across the back of the unit andthat allowed the top portion of the unit to come loose, but not yet beremoved because a cassette tape was still stuck inside. At this point,I concluded that since the unit was not working any way, I may as well(gently) try to force open the cassette lid. That sort of workedin that it broke the cassette, but fortunately did not break the Bose.I was then able to slide off the cassette slot lid, remove thecassette, and then remove the top part of the Bose case.

To my great relief, I found that this action relieved whatever wascausing the buttons on top of the Bose to not work, and they apparentlybecame reset and working properly. Just getting the stuckcassette tape out of the unit seemed to allow all of the buttons thathad quit working to work again. I don't know if the cassette tapewill work or not, but since my main objective was to get the inputbutton to work, I may not even bother with trying to get the cassettetape to work again. I'll try to post a photo atwww.upquick.com/view/bose.jpg

SOURCE: Bose Wave System CD does not eject

Just unplug your power supply for 3 hours to reset the unit and to dissipetate power surges.

Hope it may helps;

SOURCE: adding turntable to bose music wave system

Hiya, sad to say it wont work even with the correct plugs. If you really need/want to get it going, you will need a RIIA pre amp to use to convert the turntable levels to an acceptable level for the bose. Once you have that, then get the correct matching plugs for the bose (sames guys that supply the preamp should be able to help). Suggest a google search in your area "RIIA PREAMP" and see who supplys.

Best of luck

SOURCE: I have a bose acoustic wave,single disc model

Had the same problem. Mine the cd drive got out of alignment. Sorry to say the fix is to have it replaced. BOSE will do this for about $150. Typically this includes the one year service agreement, a full system "tune up" and a one year warrenty.

Call BOSE and they will take care of you.