Love love love my speaker! This is my second Bose Micro, replacing a unit that survived several years of world travel. Before I bought this one I bought and returned several cheaper units, thinking I could find something near or equal in quality for less money. With Bose you are paying for a luxury brand name, after all. What I found, however, was that none of those generic brands could hold a candle to the Bose Micro when it came to sound quality, and as the saying goes, you get what you pay for.