Lifestyle® 38 Home Entertainment System

This high-performing Lifestyle® DVD system digitally stores up to 200 hours of music and adds life to movies. Includes progressive scan DVD/CD player and Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays. ADAPTiQ® system customizes sound to your room.

The Bose® Lifestyle® 38 DVD system is designed to listen, learn and adapt to your entertainment preferences, all while delivering Bose® quality sound. Our ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system analyzes and adjusts your Lifestyle® system to account for unique room acoustics. The innovative uMusic™ system stores and organizes up to 200 hours of music, and you can hear that music in up to 14 additional rooms throughout your home with Bose® link. An elegant media center features an integrated progressive scan DVD player and AM/FM tuner. And Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays fit easily in your room.

Breakthrough technologies make listening easy

The Lifestyle® 38 DVD system advances a legacy of performance, elegance and simplicity with proprietary new technologies that make listening easy and exciting. The ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system evaluates your room's acoustics and where your speakers are placed. Then it automatically adjusts the sound to your room environment, ensuring consistent Bose quality performance.

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Now, consider that CD collection you've compiled for years. Why let it eat up space when you can have thousands of songs right at your fingertips? The Lifestyle® 38 DVD system features the uMusic intelligent playback system to digitally store up to 200 hours of your music. While you're listening to your CDs, the uMusic system learns your preferences so it can automatically select and play the songs you enjoy. No menus, no playlists, no computer.

All of this technology resides in one elegant media center, featuring an integrated progressive scan DVD player and AM/FM tuner.

Enjoy Bose sound throughout your home

All Lifestyle® DVD systems are equipped with Bose® link to bring Bose sound to as many as 14 additional rooms, even outdoors. Simply add compatible Bose products for access to your entire music collection from any room in your home. You can choose from two audio streams in any of these rooms and enjoy independent volume control, as well.

Small speakers, big performance

Direct/Reflecting� cube speaker arrays stand just over 6" high, but provide thrilling, enveloping sound for everything you listen to or watch. These small speakers work in concert with the proprietary Acoustimass® module to fill your room with lifelike surround sound. The Acoustimass module produces resonant lows that add impact to action sequences and depth to musical selections. Just place it in a corner or behind furniture, and all the sound seems to come from the cube speaker arrays.

You'll even enjoy more from your VHS favorites. Videostage® 5 decoding circuitry and digital 5.1 decoding give you a 5.1-channel presentation from practically any source, including vintage TV and movies. From the latest media to your cherished classics, the Lifestyle® 38 DVD system has just about all you'll need to make home theater easy and exciting.

	This proprietary technology customizes sound to your room's unique characteristics.
	A home networking technology enabled by your Lifestyle® DVD system.
	A unique system that digitally stores and organizes your CDs.

Lifestyle 38 Key Features:

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.

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.

Media Center with Progressive Scan DVD Player & AM/FM Tuner
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.

Direct/ Reflecting® Cube Speaker Arrays
Legendary Bose® technology that blends reflected and direct sound to recreate much of a live concert's natural spaciousness. Experience stereo sound almost anywhere in the room, not just in one small "sweet spot."

Direct/Reflecting® Speaker Technology
Experience lifelike spaciousness from a natural balance of reflected and direct sound – similar to a live performance.

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.

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.

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.

Digital 5.1 Decoding
Improved realism from 5.1-encoded DVDs, DBS or HDTV.

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.

Bose® Link
Allows connectivity to a compatible Lifestyle® system for a whole-home entertainment network. This technology can also be enabled without any room-to-room wiring with the purchase of the Bose link AL8 homewide wireless audio link.

Technical Specifications & Measurements

Video In/ Out	1 video input/1 video output (composite, S-video, and component - component video requires included adapters(2)
Audio Inputs	Inputs and switching for 4 audio sources (4 analog, 4 coaxial digital, 1 optical digital)
Audio Output	Stereo analog output
Digital Outputs	1 optical, 1 coaxial
Media Center	3 1/2" H x 15 4/5" W x 11" D • (8.9 cm x 40.1 cm x 27.9 cm) • 8.2 lbs. (3.7 kg)
Cube Speakers	6 1/4" H x 3" W x 4" D • (15.7 cm x 7.9 cm x 10.2 cm) • 2.4 lbs. (1.1 kg)
Acoustimass Module	16" H x 8" W x 24 1/2" D • (40.6 cm x 20.3 cm x 62.2 cm) • 35.9 lbs. (16.3 kg)
Total Shipping Weight	84 lbs. (38 kg)

What's in the Box

Media center • Acoustimass® module • 5 cube speaker arrays • Remote control • 5 speaker cables: 3 front speaker cables and 2 surround speaker cables • Audio input cable • Stereo audio cable • Video cable (6 ft) • 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

Home Entertainment System - Lifestyle 38