Bose LIFESTYLE 48 Q&A User Manual
LIFESTYLE®48 DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
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The Lifestyle®48 system is our most advanced, premium home entertainment system intended
for the customer who has a large music collection and enjoys both watching video and listening
to music. The Bose
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Lifestyle®48 home entertainment system includes:
• Five Jewel Cube
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speakers – Our smallest, most powerful cube speaker arrays
feature an award-winning design that includes a neodymium iron boron magnet
and an exclusive nautilus-shaped port that provide very high performance from a
remarkably small speaker.
• 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, advanced design
and an aluminum finish. It also features Bose
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link multi-room/multi-source expansion
capability and a suite of technologies designed to make the home entertainment
experience simple.
• uMusic
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intelligent playback system – Allows you to store, organize and manage
up to 340 hours of music on your Lifestyle
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system. By “learning”your musical preferences as you listen, it automatically selects songs you most likely want to hear.Enjoy
nine different uMusic system presets, each tailored to individual moods. Listen to the
music you want, when you want, simply and effortlessly.
• 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.
How is the Lifestyle
®
48
home entertainment system
positioned relative to
the other products in the
Lifestyle
®
system line,
and what does it include?
PRODUCT POSITIONING
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LIFESTYLE®48 DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
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• ADAPTiQ®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
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performance, based on the room’s unique acoustics.
• DTS
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and Dolby®Digital 5.1 decoding – DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 decoding
enable 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
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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.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 a 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 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 quick setup guide and color-coded connections, your customers can enjoy a
movie or music in minutes.
How are Bose Lifestyle
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systems different from
other home theater systems
available today?
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• 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.
The Lifestyle
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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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intelligent playback system (with Lifestyle®38 and 48 systems) and by the type of
speakers included.
The Lifestyle
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48 system is our premier home entertainment system, targeted to the music
enthusiast who also wants a high performance home theater system.The Lifestyle
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48 system
is the only Bose
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system to feature the award-winning Jewel Cube®speakers. In addition, the
Lifestyle
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48 system is capable of storing approximately 340 hours of music in the elegant
media center. The uMusic
™
intelligent playback system stores,organizes and plays the music
you want,when you want it,without the effort associated with making playlists.
The Lifestyle
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48 system includes the versatility of a DVD/CD player. Advanced multisource/multi-room expansion capability provides the opportunity to enjoy Bose quality
sound throughout your home. And the elegant styling of the brushed-aluminum media center allows the system to fit into practically any décor, further enhancing this system’s
appeal. In addition, the Lifestyle
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48 system features:
• Jewel Cube speaker arrays:
• Our smallest, most powerful cube speaker is just about the size of a computer
mouse and fills a room with lifelike, spacious sound.
• Direct/Reflecting
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speaker technology uses a combination of reflected and direct
sound to re-create a natural, room-filling experience.
• An award-winning design featuring more than 40 innovations and technologies,
including:
· An extremely powerful neodymium iron boron magnet that delivers a high level of
performance from a remarkably small speaker.
· Exclusive nautilus-shaped port design that moves more air than many conventional
larger speakers and produces rich, full sound.
• Larger Storage Capacity – The Lifestyle
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48 system can store the content of approxi-
mately 350 CDs – 75% more storage capacity than the Lifestyle
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38 system. This allows
larger music collections to be stored and enjoyed,from one elegant media center.
The uMusic intelligent playback system is a “smart”music storage system available only from
Bose. It stores the content of hundreds of CDs on your Lifestyle
®
system, then “learns” your
musical preferences as you listen,and automatically selects songs you most likely want to hear.
How is the Lifestyle
®
48
system different from
other Lifestyle
®
systems?
What is the uMusic intelligent playback system
breakthrough?
How are the four Lifestyle
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DVD-based systems different from each other?
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