Some of the Tivoli stuff sounds really good – you can expand them with another speaker and even a matching sub – almost real hifi sound.
Roberts are overrated – because they used wooden cases they had a better sound but other than that they are average, and they used to just rebrand other peoples stuff, like Hitachi I think.
Bose use ‘tricks’ to make their stuff sound impressive in a shop but its not real sound quality.
Listen to a piano or something else real on an Acoustimass system, for example, and you will hear how bad it is.
Plus the ‘subwoofer’ is actually playing a larger chunk of the sound than a subwoofer should – a sub has to cut off at 100Hz or you can hear where it is, and the Bose one does not – it is a real cheat.
smoke and mirrors.
The dock and tunein radio is a good idea – DAB is dodgy anyway and if your reception is not spot on it sounds worse than FM, like the radio has been dropped into a bucket of water.