Before you begin

Setting Up

Thank you for purchasing the Bose® Lifestyle® 12 system. This complete audio home enter- tainment system offers superb sound, elegance, technology, and simplicity for music and home theater.

Your system includes:

•A Lifestyle® music center with built-in AM/FM radio and compact disc (CD) player

•Inputs for a video sound source, an auxiliary source, and a tape deck

•Powered Acoustimass® speakers with a hide-away Acoustimass module

•An easy-to-use remote control

Bose Videostage® decoder technology enables the Lifestyle® 12 system to reproduce the realism of movie sound especially for a home environment. When a movie soundtrack or CD is produced in a surround sound format, specially encoded sound is sent to any or all of the available speakers. Dialogue is usually sent to the front speakers. Sounds from the left or right side of the picture are sent to left or right front speakers. Ambient sounds or special effects may be sent to the surround (rear) speakers. Bose Videostage circuitry automatically directs the sound to the correct speakers.

To select surround-encoded material, look for any of the terms Surround, Dolby Surround,

and the double-D symbol * on tapes and discs, and the word “surround” preceding a TV broadcast.

When sound is recorded in stereo, but not surround-encoded, Videostage decoder technol- ogy directs it to the most appropriate speakers based on the signals received. When viewing older movies or listening to other monaural programs on your Lifestyle® 12 system, Videostage circuitry directs sound so it appears to come from the center of the TV screen.

You can listen to any program material in SURROUND (5-speaker) mode, whether the program is surround-encoded, stereo, or monaural. You will not hear sound from all five speakers all of the time. Even with surround-encoded material there are times when no sounds are directed to the surround speakers. You can select the speaker mode that sounds best to you for each particular program.

* Dolby and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation.

December 20, 2001

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