Believe it or not, I have exactly the same question. My husband had a Bose radio which he loved. Due to a malfunctioning transformer, virtually all the electronic devices in our house were zapped a couple of weeks ago due to a series of recurrent power surges. Now the electric company is having to pay for all of them to be replaced--good to get new stuff, but I liked my old stuff. Anyway, my husband wants another Bose, and I was going to order online but found the same thing as the first poster.