Bose LIfestyle 48
Home Entertainment System
The Bose® Lifestyle® 48 DVD home entertainment system will change the way you think about movies, music ... even your CD collection.
- ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system
Enjoy greater freedom of speaker placement—without the tonal adjustments. Available only from Bose, this patented, easy-to-use technology analyzes the way your room's dimensions and other variables affect sound, then automatically adjusts the sound of your Lifestyle® DVD system to the acoustics of your room. - Bose® link
Connect compatible Bose products to your Lifestyle® system for listening in as many as 14 additional rooms—even outdoors. With Bose® link technology, you can have independent volume control in each room, as well as access to two different audio streams from the same Lifestyle® system. This technology can also be enabled without any room-to-room wiring with the purchase of the Bose® link AL8 homewide wireless audio link.
- uMusic® intelligent playback system
This proprietary system digitally stores thousands of songs in the media center, freeing you from managing a cumbersome CD collection. The uMusic® system actually listens to your music and learns your preferences to select tracks based on what you like. No menus, no playlists, no computer. - Integrated system design
This system is designed so every element—media center, speakers and Acoustimass module—works in harmony, enhancing performance and ease of operation. -
Media center with integrated progressive scan DVD player
Enjoy high-quality playback of today’s most popular audio and video content, including DVD video, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, PCM, digital 5.1, MP3 files, MPEG-2. -
Acoustimass® module
This Bose breakthrough works in concert with the small speakers to deliver the full range of sound. The module delivers the clarity of pure low-frequency reproduction down to the lowest frequencies, even at the loudest levels. When the module is placed behind a curtain or chair, all of the sound seems to come directly from the small cube speakers. -
Jewel Cube® speakers
Just 4½" high, our smallest Direct/Reflecting® speakers contain over 40 different innovations and breakthrough technologies. You enjoy the highest level of Lifestyle® system performance from speakers that fit effortlessly into your room. -
Horizontal center-channel speaker array
Designed to visually complement flat-panel TV screens while delivering natural-sounding dialogue and vocals. -
Direct/Reflecting® speaker technology
Experience lifelike spaciousness from a natural balance of reflected and direct sound—similar to a live performance. -
VS-2 video enhancer
Simplifies the integration of a Lifestyle® system with other video sources, including those with HDMI. Connect just one wire from the VS-2 video enhancer to the back of your TV, and receive the correct audio and video with the press of one button. -
Proprietary Videostage® 5 decoding circuitry
Proprietary Bose® technology allows you to hear home theater sound from practically everything you play, even older TV programs and videotapes that weren’t recorded in surround sound. -
Digital 5.1 decoding
Improved realism from 5.1-encoded DVDs, DBS or HDTV. -
Control integration
Use the Lifestyle® system's radio-frequency remote to operate most popular functions on other infrared-receiving equipment in your home entertainment system: TV, VCR, PVR, cable box or satellite receiver. TV sensor makes turning home entertainment system on a one-button operation.
| input/output | 1 video input/1 video output (composite, S-video, and component—component video requires included adapters) Inputs and switching for 4 audio sources (4 analog, 4 coaxial digital, 1 optical digital) Stereo analog output Digital outputs: 1 optical, 1 coaxial |
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| Weights and Measurements | |
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| Media center | 3 3/4"H x 15 3/4"W x 11 1/2"D
(9.4 x 39.9 x 29.2 cm) 9 lbs (4.1 kg) |
| Cube speakers | 4 1/2"H x 2 1/4"W x 3 1/4"D (11.2 cm x 5.6 cm x 8.1 cm) 1.0 lb (0.5 kg) |
| Center-channel speaker | 2 3/8"H X 5 1/2"W X 2 5/8"D (6 cm H x 14 cm W X 6.7 cm D) 2.36 lbs (1.07 kg) |
| Acoustimass® module | 13"H X 8"W X 21 5/8"D (33 cm H X 20.3 cm W X 54.9 cm D) 26.22 lbs (11.9 kg) |
| Total shipping weight | 72 lbs. (33 kg) |
| What's In the Box | Media center Acoustimass® module 4 cube speaker arrays 1 horizontal center-channel speaker Remote control VS-2 video enhancer 5 speaker cables: 3 front speaker cables and 2 surround speaker cables HDMI cable Audio input cable Stereo audio cable Video cable (6') S-video cable 2 component video adapters Mounting strip Rubber feet for Acoustimass module and speakers 4 AAA batteries TV on/off detector AM loop antenna Discs 1 and 2 FM antenna Optional IR emitter cable Media center power supply ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system headset Acoustimass module 120 VAC power cord Media center power supply 120 VAC power cord |