Why doesn't my iMac connect to my Bose Wave 3 sound system when it is supposed to?

Hi all,
Both my iMac (late 2012) and MacBook (late 2008) are not connecting with my statem of the art Bose wave 3 system. I have made sure both devices are on and discoverable and both bluetooth connections seem to be working because the iMac works well with my trackpad and magic mouse as well as the bluetooth keyboard. The Bose system itself works well with my iphone 5 via bluetooth and i'm afraid to say, a blackberry curve.
The only bit of intel that i can also give is that, the iMac and the also my MacBook both seem to connect momentarily with the Bose bluetooth device but then the Bose bluetoooth device disappears after a second from the list of connected devices in the bluetooth menu under system preferences in the iMac and MacBook. This is strange as it seems to suggest compatibility but unwillingness to connect for anything longer than 1 second. Which may suggest that the Bose bluetooth has a problem but then it shouldn't then connect with both an iPhone and a Blackberry if it (Bose bluetooth device) were the problem.
I have spoken to Bose regarding this issue and having exceeded all very simple possibilities to do with flickering the different connecting modes on both systems (iMac, MacBook and the Bose Wave system), and turning it on & off and so forth, they feel it is probably something even simpler from the apple end of things, but clearly not being the true apple man, I fail to see what this extra setting could be. I urge those that can to please enlighten.
AJ x

I have spoken to technical support and it was a really very simple solution. I just had to add the device by pressing the '+" button in the bluetooth menu iin system preferences. Simpler than the other simple stuff that I was trying first. Lol
AJ x

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