Bose 28 SERIES User Manual
LIFESTYLE®28 SERIES II DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
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The Lifestyle®28 system is positioned as our most popular home entertainment system. It is
intended for the customer who enjoys both listening to music and watching video.The Bose
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Lifestyle®28 Series II DVD home entertainment system includes:
• Five Direct/Reflecting
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cube speaker arrays –These small, elegant speakers can
be positioned to deliver Bose Direct/Reflecting
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speaker performance, a natural
blend of reflected and direct sound that approximates the sound you hear inside a
concert hall.
• Powered Acoustimass
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module – Lifelike low-note reproduction, results in a
more realistic and gripping listening experience. It can be hidden out of view
behind furniture.
• Elegant media center – Includes DVD/CD player, AM/FM tuner and a suite of
technologies designed to make the home entertainment experience simple. It also
features Bose
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link multi-room/multi-source expansion capability,advanced design,
and an aluminum finish.
• Control integration – Radio frequency remote control enables easy-to-use, one-button
operation of Lifestyle
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system functions (DVD/CD,AM/FM tuner) plus components
attached to your system.Works through walls,floors – anywhere around the house – to
access the most frequently used commands for TV, VCR, cable box, satellite receiver,
PVR and even CD jukeboxes.
• Bose
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link technology – Bose®link is our proprietary technology that allows a
Lifestyle
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system to integrate with other Bose products to provide sound in secondary
rooms.With Bose
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link, the user can easily connect up to 14 additional rooms of
sound, each with independent volume and mute control,to provide two different
audio streams from the same Lifestyle
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system.
• ADAPTiQ
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audio calibration system –This proprietary technology customizes the
Lifestyle
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system to your particular room.After a simple setup process,it automatically
adjusts for many of the variables that can affect sound performance,including a room’s
size and shape, the placement of speakers and where someone sits to listen.It enables
the system to deliver a quality Bose performance,based on the room’s unique acoustics.
How is the Lifestyle
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28
Series II DVD home
entertainment system
positioned relative to
the other products in the
Lifestyle
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system line,
and what does it include?
PRODUCT POSITIONING
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LIFESTYLE®28 SERIES II DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
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• DTS®and Dolby®Digital 5.1 decoding – DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 decoding
enables the Lifestyle
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system to deliver a discrete five-channel home theater experience
from 5.1-encoded DVDs,satellite broadcasts and HDTV programming.
• Videostage
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5 decoding circuitry – Automatically delivers five different channels
of audio to five speakers from non 5.1-encoded programs.So you can enjoy an experience rivaling that of a 5.1-encoded DVD from practically any source: surround-encoded
VHS tapes, stereo CDs – even older mono TV broadcasts can now be enjoyed in full,
discrete five-speaker surround sound.
• Bose patented signal processing circuitry – Automatically adjusts tonal balance at
different volume levels.Music sounds lifelike with full, rich lows at almost any listening
level, while speech consistently sounds natural.
• Simplified setup – Everything arrives in a single box with a quick setup guide,
a setup disc and a music sampler DVD
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Simple, color-coded connections help make
installation easy.
Lifestyle
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systems are complete, digital home entertainment audio/video solutions that strive
to deliver an unsurpassed combination of performance,elegance, simplicity and expandability.
They’re an attractive alternative to the size and complexity of most conventional home theater
systems. These integrated systems include speakers, amplification, patented signal processing,
surround sound decoding, audio/video sources (both DVD/CD player and AM/FM tuner),
additional inputs, and a remote control.
Unique benefits of Lifestyle
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systems:
• An elegant media center takes the place of the typical bulky rack of electronics.
• Tiny cube speakers and a hideaway Acoustimass
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module replace big, bulky speakers.
• Intelligent software ensures a quality performance regardless of input signal type
(from digital 5.1 to mono) or volume level.
• ADAPTiQ
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audio calibration system automatically ensures a quality Bose performance
regardless of the room’s acoustics.
• Bose
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link enables up to 14 additional rooms of sound, all from one Lifestyle®system.
• The remote is clearly marked and easy to understand,and works through most walls
and floors.
• Systems are engineered from the ground up so all elements work in concert with each
other. Amplification,speakers, signal processing and decoding are matched to create the
exceptional performance you would expect from advanced Lifestyle
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system design.
• Systems are convenient to purchase and set up.Everything arrives in one box. And
with the simple, quick setup guide and color-coded connections, your customers can
enjoy a movie or music in minutes.
• Systems are engineered to provide the correct output from all channels in most home
environments.The customer doesn’t have to make the usual painstaking (and often
incorrect) adjustments to the output level of each channel to ensure the sound from
all speakers is balanced.The output from the center and surround speakers can be
easily adjusted for special environments.
How are Bose
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Lifestyle
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systems different from
other home theater systems
available today?
LIFESTYLE®28 SERIES II DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
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The Lifestyle®48, 38, 28,and 18 systems provide four wonderful choices designed to meet
different budget and performance requirements.They all share common features, including
an elegant media center, hideaway Acoustimass
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module, radio frequency remote control,
Bose
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link and the ADAPTiQ®audio calibration system.
The difference in system performance is defined by the availability of the uMusic
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intelli-
gent playback system (see Lifestyle
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38 and 48 system Q & As for more information) and by
the type of speakers included with the system.
We’ve made many improvements to the new Lifestyle
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28 Series II system.They include:
• Improved acoustic performance
• Improved user interface
• Enhanced control integration,including personal video recorders and CD jukeboxes
• Ability to sense TV power on plasma and LCD as well as CRT and projection
• Progressive scan video rendering
• Bose
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link
Bose
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link is our proprietary technology that allows Bose products located in up to 14 different
rooms to play sources from a single Lifestyle
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system and its connected components. Bose®link-
compatible products (such as a 3·2·1 home entertainment system or Lifestyle
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stereo amplifier)
in various rooms can communicate with the Lifestyle
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system independently, with their own
volume,mute and on/off controls. In addition, a Bose
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link-enabled room has a choice between
two independent audio streams coming from the Lifestyle
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media center.
An audio stream is similar to a TV channel – different channels have different content.With
Bose
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link, the streams have content from the different audio sources generated or enabled by
the Lifestyle
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system. For example, one stream might have music from the internal CD player,
while the other stream could be the FM tuner, or even a connected component, such as a TV.
An audio stream-based approach offers far more flexibility than the traditional zone approach.
In a zone approach, audio systems in different rooms are physically linked together. Two
rooms in a zone, such as the master bedroom and the kitchen, must always have the same
audio output.With the stream approach, each room gives the listener a choice between the
two audio streams, so the person in the kitchen can listen to the radio while the person in
the bedroom listens to a CD.
Factors such as a room’s size and shape, the placement of speakers, and where someone sits
to listen affect sound in different ways.Furthermore, everyone’s room arrangement is different.The ADAPTiQ audio calibration system is an innovative Bose technology that analyzes and
adjusts the system’s sound to ensure a quality Bose performance regardless of the room. The
ADAPTiQ system is available with all DVD-based Lifestyle
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systems.
What is Bose®link?
What is an audio stream?
How does an audio stream
differ from a zone?
What is the ADAPTiQ
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audio calibration system?
How does the Lifestyle 28
Series II system differ
from the original
Lifestyle
®
28 system?
How are the Lifestyle
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DVD-based systems different from each other?
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