LIFESTYLE
®
38 DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
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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
®
48, 38, 28 and 18 systems provide four wonderful choices designed to meet dif-
ferent budget and performance requirements.They all share common features, such as: an ele-
gant media center, hideaway Acoustimass
®
module, radio frequency remote control, Bose
®
link
and the ADAPTiQ
®
audio calibration system.
The difference in system performance is defined by the availability of the uMusic intelligent
playback system (with Lifestyle
®
38 and 48 systems), music storage capability, and by the type of
speakers included with the system.
The Lifestyle
®
38 system is very similar to the Lifestyle
®
28 system in acoustic performance,
with one important enhancement: it features the uMusic intelligent playback system and
the capacity to store 200 hours of music.
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.
Though playlists can be created and customized by the listener, they have limitations. Building
them takes considerable time and effort. And even 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 simply cannot be avoided,
even if the listener chooses a “random” playing mode.
The uMusic intelligent playback system transcends playlists in many ways. Initially, it draws
from a much larger universe of songs -- quite possibly the listener’s entire music collection. It
demands no manual organization of songs by the user other than the initial download of CD
material. Its pool of material is fluid, created from a knowledge of the listeners’s overall musical
tastes rather than from a fixed playlist. Its song selections are full of pleasant surprises. The result
is a much deeper listening experience, based on the shifting moods and tastes of the listener --
almost like listening to a radio station programmed to suit that listener’s unique tastes.
Consider a uMusic system preset a virtual “bin” in which the Lifestyle
®
system stores knowledge
of your musical preferences as it learns what they are. The next time you select that particular
preset, the system will play music based on what it has learned from previous interactions. The
more music you listen to, the more it learns what you like.
How is the Lifestyle
®
38
system different from
other Lifestyle
®
systems?
What is the uMusic
intelligent playback
system breakthrough?
How is the uMusic intelli-
gent playback system
different from a playlist?
What is a uMusic
system “preset”?
How are the four Lifestyle
®
DVD-based systems differ-
ent from each other?
