Bose 50 manual Before you begin, Setting Up, Realism and impact, Compatibility

Setting Up

Before you begin

Thank you for purchasing the Bose® Lifestyle® 50 system. Years of research lie behind this complete audio home entertainment system – the most advanced home theater system from Bose. Technological innovations that make the Lifestyle® 50 system unique include the Bose Personal™ music center, which places all system operations in the palm of your hand, and tiny Jewel Cube® speakers.

The interactive Personal music center is a clear departure from convention, communicating with the system through a two-way radio data link. The result for you is full control of this entertainment system as you move about your home.

The Bose Jewel Cube speakers are also far from conventional. Proprietary technologies ensure that these tiny speakers not only fill a room with sound, but also reproduce it more accurately than traditionally designed loudspeakers.

The other elements of the Lifestyle® 50 system are designed to be hidden from view:

•The elegant Lifestyle® CD changer, designed to give you flexibility in where it is placed

•The hideaway powered Acoustimass® module that delivers the rich, full, lifelike bass

•The Bose multi-room interface, with four independent audio outputs that allow you to enjoy Bose sound throughout your home.

Realism and impact

Your Lifestyle® 50 system is equipped with an all new Videostage® decoder that uses digital signal processing. The result is increased surround sound realism and impact both for movie soundtracks and music recordings. The Videostage decoder processes analog formats, as well as two or even single-channel PCM and Dolby Digital bitstreams, and helps to deliver the acoustic experience of the movies right in your home.

Compatibility

Your system is fully compatible with:

•Digital-audio bitstreams. Look for the symbol 1or the terms Dolby Digital or PCM on DVD-Video disks. Your Lifestyle® 50 system cannot process MPEG-2 or DTS digital bitstreams.

•Surround-sound sources such as VCRs, stereo TVs, cable boxes and satellite receivers. Videostage decoding directs stereo information to the surround channels, so the sound of stereo broadcasts and rented or recorded tapes can approach that of your DVD disks.

•Surround-encoded analog or digital audio signals. Look for the terms Surround or Dolby Surround, or the symbol 3on tapes and discs, and the word “sur- round” preceding a TV broadcast.

•Stereo program material from TV, FM, CD and cassette. Videostage decoding delivers five channels, even when the original source contained only one or two.

•Monoaural program material. Videostage decoding can process a one-channel program into five-channel sound and direct the result to five independent speakers. Dialogue remains locked on-screen, while music and ambient effects fill the room.

Automatic sound level monitoring and control

Your enjoyment of movies is enhanced by Digital Dynamic Range® compression. This technol- ogy automatically monitors and adjusts the volume to let you to hear soft sounds, particularly dialogue, but prevents you from being overwhelmed by loud special effects. This is especially useful for late night viewing – it eliminates the need to constantly adjust the volume.

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