Product Details
Bose Lifestyle 38 Series IV DVD Home Entertainment System, Model LS38IVBK
The Bose® Lifestyle® 38 DVD home theater 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 combine with a horizontal center-channel speaker to fit easily in your room. And the VS-2 video enhancer simplifies your system's integration with other sources, including those with HDMI.
Key Features:
- Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays
Experience rich sound almost anywhere in the room, not just in one small "sweet spot," with this proprietary Bose technology. The cube speaker arrays blend reflected and direct sound to re-create much of a live concert's natural spaciousness - 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.
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 - 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 - Horizontal center-channel speaker array
Designed to visually complement flat-panel TV screens while delivering natural-sounding dialogue and vocals - 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 - 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 - 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.
Specifications:
- 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
What's Included:
- Media center
- Acoustimass® module
- 4 cube speaker arrays
- 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')
- 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
Approximate Dimensions:
- Media Center
- Height: 3-3/4"
- Width: 15-3/4"
- Depth: 11-1/2"
- Cube Speakers
- Height: 6-1/4"
- Width: 3"
- Depth: 4"
- Center-Channel Speaker
- Height: 3-1/8"
- Width: 6-1/4"
- Depth: 4-1/8"
- Acoustimass® Module
- Height: 13"
- Width: 8"
- Depth: 21-5/8"
Approximate Weight:
- Media Center: 9 lbs
- Cube Speakers: 2.4 lbs
- Center-Channel Speaker: 2.36 lbs
- Acoustimass® Module: 26.22 lbs
- Shipping: 72 lbs
