The volume increase during wake up is not new, my 13 year old JVC does that. It is a nice touch but you don't have to pay £ 300 for it.

I think the £200 is for the sound quality £100 for the name.

I'm thinking of buying one, as long as it has deep sounds as well as crisp high tones. Will go and have a listen at a store soon.

I think these are a bit expensive myself.  As far as i can see the wave technology basically a fancy rear bass reflex port to the speaker.

The sound is room filling and the bass is surprisngly weighty although in my opinion i think the bass is terribly un-musical.  

I think a goods quality micro system like a Denon M31 (i know its the old model but its a great product) is a far better product if music quality is what you're after.

There's a DAB add on that you can get for it but it's a very poor solution indeed.

I used one of these in an hotel in Singapore where they were in all of the rooms.  It was OK.  It certainly didn't live up to the advertizing.  Horn speakers in a tabletop aren't a new idea.