Lifestyle® 48 Home Entertainment System

Our most advanced Lifestyle® DVD system digitally stores and organizes up to 340 hours of music. Enjoy movies with a progressive scan DVD/CD player and Jewel Cube® speaker arrays. ADAPTiQ® system customizes sound to your room.

The Bose® Lifestyle® 48 DVD home entertainment system will change the way you think about movies, music...even your CD collection. Digitally store and organize up to 340 hours of music in the media center, featuring a progressive scan DVD/CD player. The ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system analyzes your room and adjusts your Lifestyle® system's sound for great performance. Tiny, award-winning Jewel Cube® speaker arrays fill your room with wondrous surround sound. And there's more. Bose® link allows connections for compatible Bose products in as many as 14 additional rooms.

Your room is unique. So is this system.

The hidden beauty of the Lifestyle® 48 DVD system lies in the Bose technologies that make enjoying music and movies intuitively simple. Start with your main room – the size, shape, textures and other elements that affect the sound you hear. The ADAPTiQ system, found only in Lifestyle® DVD systems, was developed to analyze your room, then adjust the Lifestyle® system for a consistent, high-quality performance each time you listen.

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No need to move furniture, speakers or anything else to get the best possible sound in your room. Just sit in up to five of your preferred listening spots, and allow the ADAPTiQ system to automatically make the necessary adjustments.

Meet your digital DJ

Consider the hassle of managing your treasured, but unwieldy, CD collection. The Lifestyle® 48 DVD system changes all that with unique Bose technology that stores up to 340 hours of music. The uMusic™ intelligent playback system actually listens to your music and learns your preferences, then makes selections based on what you like. No more searching for CDs or deciding which tracks to listen to. Whatever mood you're in, the uMusic system is ready with just the songs you want to hear.

And you can hear them almost anywhere. Bose® link enables quality sound in as many as 14 additional rooms, even outdoors. Just add compatible Bose products, and you can have independent volume control in each room, as well as access to two different audio streams from the same Lifestyle® system.

Fill your room with sound, not equipment

The Lifestyle® 48 DVD system features award-winning Jewel Cube® speaker arrays – measuring only 4 1/2" high – for dramatically lifelike sound. These are our smallest and most powerful speaker arrays, yet they deliver sound you'd expect from speakers many times their size.

The proprietary Acoustimass® module produces resounding low notes that bring action sequences to life and adds fullness to music. And the Acoustimass module can be placed out of sight, so all the sound seems to come from the Jewel Cube speaker arrays..

It loves to play your classics, too

Your interest in digital media doesn't mean you want to abandon your collection of older films and TV shows on VHS. The Lifestyle® 48 DVD system features proprietary Bose technologies to freshen up those prized possessions. Videostage® 5 decoding circuitry and digital 5.1 decoding ensure a high-quality 5.1-channel surround experience from practically any source.

The Lifestyle® 48 DVD system puts it all together with innovative approaches that let you easily customize your listening experience. All with the performance, elegance and simplicity you expect from Bose.

	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 48 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® 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jewel Cube Speakers
Just 4 1/2" 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.

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	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)
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	77 lbs. (35 kg)

What's in the Box

Media center • Acoustimass® module • 5 Jewel Cube® speakers • 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 48