It was totally unusable for video because of very very bad audio/video sync problems.

To be fair, other units of this ilk have this problem, like the Big Jambox, etc, btw.

as frustrating as the negatives are, the sound is so good for classical music that I chose to put up the dumb problems (and they are really dumb!

The only problem we noticed with Bose speaker is that it lacked other options besides bluetooth (which was a bit flakey to begin with) and very heavy on the bass with no option to adjust it

Was worried it might not be loud enough - but no problem there - it gets plenty loud

As a hip hop fan, the one problem I always had was the bass blowing out my other speakers

The Roar is a very nice B/T speaker with lots of features