Bose® Lifestyle® 48 Series IV Home Entertainment System
Our finest Lifestyle® DVD home theater system digitally stores and organizes up to 340 hours of music. Enjoy movies with a progressive scan DVD/CD player. Jewel Cube® speaker arrays and Acoustimass® module deliver thrilling 5.1 surround sound. ADAPTiQ® system customizes sound to your room's acoustics.
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This proprietary technology customizes sound to your rooms unique characteristics.
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A unique system that digitally stores and organizes your CDs.
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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® home theater audio system's sound for great performance. Tiny, award-winning Jewel Cube® speaker arrays and a horizontal center-channel speaker fill your room with thrilling 5.1 surround sound. The VS-2 video enhancer simplifies your system's integration with other sources, including those with HDMI. And there's more. Bose® link allows you to connect your Lifestyle® 48 DVD home theater system to compatible Bose products in as many as 14 additional rooms.

Your room is unique. So is this home theater 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 and then adjust the Lifestyle® system for a consistent, high-quality performance each time you listen.

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 home theater audio 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 4½" 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. And a sleek horizontal center-channel speaker locks dialogue on screen while making a nice match with flat-panel televisions.

The proprietary Acoustimass® module produces resounding low notes that bring action sequences to life and add fullness to music. Place it out of sight, and all the sound seems to come from the smaller speakers.

Simplicity for your video sources

Simplify the integration of a Lifestyle® DVD home theater system with your video sources—including those with HDMI—and get the best picture possible. The new VS-2 video enhancer automatically synchronizes the audio and video you want at the touch of a button. You'll receive the highest video resolution your TV can accept, all the way up to 1080p over HDMI. And you'll reduce the wiring to the back of the television to just one connection.

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.

Key Features
 
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.
Acoustimass® module Hear the clarity of pure, low-frequency reproduction, even at the loudest levels. This Bose breakthrough works in concert with the small speakers to deliver the full range of sound. When the module is placed behind a curtain or chair, all of the sound seems to come directly from the small cube speakers.
Horizontal center channel speaker Enables acoustic and aesthetic synchronization with your TV. Keeps dialogue focused on the screen, and complements the dimensions of flat-panel displays.
Lifestyle® media center Enjoy today's most popular audio and video content with this elegant control center, featuring a built-in progressive scan DVD/CD player and AM/FM tuner. You'll have high-quality playback for the latest media formats, including: DVD, DVD-R, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, PCM, digital 5.1, MP3 files and MPEG-2.
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.
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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
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.

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1 video input/1 video output (composite, S-video, and component - component video requires included adapters(2))


Inputs and switching for 4 audio sources (4 analog, 4 coaxial digital, 1 optical digital)


Stereo analog output


Digital outputs: 1 optical, 1 coaxial


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 • 3 1/8"H X 6 1/4"W X 4 1/8"D • (7.9 cm H x 15.9 cm W X 10.5 cm D) • 2.36 lbs (1.07 kg)


Acoustimass® module • 2 3/8"H X 5 1/2"W X 2 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 Jewel Cube® speakers
1 horizontal center channel speaker
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
VS-2 video enhancer

Documentation
Owner's Guide
Installation Guide