I have a complete Home Theater System (HTS) in my grand room (14' ceiling) including an ipod dock for my tuner, but I did not want to crank up the whole system to listen to music by myself. I bought the Bose SoundDock for this reason, and it has accomplished this in grand style. The sound quality actually rivals my HTS, and believe me I have a top notch HTS. My HTS has pairs of speakers located thoughout the house, but the SoundDock carries into the other rooms with the same high quality sound. I am very happy with the Bose SoudDock and highly recommend it to anyone considering puchasing an ipod docking system.