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LIFESTYLE

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38 DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM

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The Lifestyle

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38 system is positioned as our most popular home entertainment system

featuring the uMusic

intelligent playback system. The Lifestyle

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38 system is intended for

the customer who has a sizeable music collection and enjoys both watching video and listening
to music. The Bose

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Lifestyle

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38 home entertainment system includes:

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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.

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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.

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Elegant media center

Includes DVD/CD player, AM/FM tuner and a suite of tech-

nologies designed to make the home entertainment experience simple. It also fea-
tures Bose

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link multi-room/multi-source expansion capability, advanced design, and

an aluminum finish.

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uMusic intelligent playback system

Allows you to store, organize and manage

up to 200 hours of music on your Lifestyle

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system. By “learning” your musical prefer-

ences 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.

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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.

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Bose

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link technology

Bose

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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

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38

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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Summary of Contents for Lifestyle 38

Page 1: ...elligent playback system Allows you to store organize and manage up to 200 hours of music on your Lifestyle system By learning your musical prefer ences 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 fre...

Page 2: ...easy Lifestyle 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 au...

Page 3: ...a highly customized playlist mixing different artists and genres still consists of a fixed collection of songs whose novelty tends to wear off over time Creating new playlists or adding deleting songs to existing ones takes even more time Consequently playlists demand regular maintenance on the part of the listener just to keep the material somewhat fresh Still a certain degree of predictability s...

Page 4: ...em to make associations among songs it needs to input the music from original CDs or exact duplicates CD Rs burned as data discs with MP3 files cannot be stored but they can be played on the system Bose link is our proprietary technology that allows Bose products located in up to 14 different rooms to play sources from a single Lifestyle system and its connected components Bose link compatible pro...

Page 5: ...ith the Bose Lifestyle 48 38 28 and 18 systems The technology is integrated only with DVD based Lifestyle systems Yes Simply run theADAPTiQ system setup procedure again when you rearrange your furni ture change your speaker placement or move the Lifestyle system to a different room There are no limits on how many times theADAPTiQ audio calibration system can be reset It is important to get a varie...

Page 6: ...entional home the ater systems are challenged when playing stereo CDs through all five speakers However Bose proprietaryVideostage 5 decoding circuitry delivers a realistic listening experience with the vocalist or predominant instrument appearing centered the backup instru ments remaining spacious and ambient instrumentation appearing in the surround channels If customers would rather listen thro...

Page 7: ...tal 5 1 experience When enjoying home theater listeners often must be sensitive to the needs of others neighbors sleeping children or a significant other who should not be disturbed As volume is decreased in most conventional home theater systems the ability to hear the quieter portions particularly dialogue diminishes That s because the soft portions of the soundtrack approach or even fall below ...

Page 8: ...le the IR remotes to control the Lifestyle system The Lifestyle system s media center houses four audio inputs forTV VCR AUX and Cable Sat Each input has L R analog and a coaxial digital connection The Lifestyle system s media center has an optical digital input that can be assigned to one of the four audio inputs Simply identify which input the optical connection should be associated with in the ...

Page 9: ...ering a home theater purchase should experience the benefits of Lifestyle home entertainment systems Their unique blend of performance elegance simplicity and expandability made possible through patented and proprietary Bose technologies and integrated systems design make Lifestyle systems truly unique We also believe that when customers discover these benefits first hand the lifelike dramatic sou...

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