Bose (43478) LIFESTYLE 48 Home Entertainment System - Series IV - (Black)

by Bose

Product Details

• Item Weight: 72 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 72 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000UQURGG
• Item model number: LIFESTYLE 48 Series IV Black
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,136 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #92 in Electronics > Home Audio & Theater > Home Theater Systems
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 18, 2005

Product Description

The Lifestyle® 48 Series IV DVD home entertainment system digitally stores and organizes up to 340 hours of your CD music. It automatically customizes its audio to your room's acoustics. Premium home theater speaker system fills your room with thrilling 5.1-channel performance. Enjoy movies with a progressive scan DVD/CD player. Connect additional components-including hi-def sources-for easy integration with your system. Jewel Cube® speakers, our smallest and most powerful speakers, deliver sound you'd expect from speakers many times their size. They combine with an Acoustimass® module to fill your room with dramatically lifelike surround sound that adds vitality and realism to your movies, music and sports. Advanced technologies for customized performance Lifestyle® system audio is tailored to the acoustics of your room with the ADAPTiQ® system. This proprietary technology analyzes your room and then automatically adjusts the Lifestyle® home theater audio system for a consistent, high quality performance in any room. The uMusic®+ system digitally stores and organizes up to 340 hours of music from your CDs in your media center. The more you listen, the more it learns-all to play just the music you want to hear. And you can hear that music almost anywhere around your home with Bose® link technology. The VS-2 video enhancer simplifies the integration of your Lifestyle® DVD home theater system with other sources. It 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.

Customer Reviews

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36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Only worth about $1500.00, January 21, 2009

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CEO "CEO" (LA, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bose (43478) LIFESTYLE 48 Home Entertainment System - Series IV - (Black) (Electronics)

The Bose(R) Lifestyle(R)48 is a very nice system. I have had the system for about 3 weeks and have given it a lot of consideration. First let me say that I should have done the research that I am going to share with you all before I purchased the unit. Nevertheless here is my review.

Pros

First let me say that I strongly recomend you doing a lot of research before buying this product. The system is a very good surround sound system and will impress you in the store because it is designed to impress you. The demos that are ran at the time of purchase are designed to pull out the best in the system, however when you get the product home it does not sound the same. The VS-2 Enhancer works very well and allows you to upscale your DVD player to 1080. The size of the cube speakers are very small and can not even be seen sometimes. The setup is very easy and hooking the entire system should not take more than one hour with no audio experiance at all. the music library is kinda nice, not very user friendly but does the job. In the right conditions the system does sound very good and is very powerfull.

Cons.

The price is the first thing that sticks out. The unit is very pricy. This is where I learned everything the hard way. After not being happy with the amount of bass, I went to check out a few other units at my local Best Buy. I was greatly displeased after speending about 3 hours in the store with a Home Theater expert to find out I could have done so much better. I built from scratch the best in home theater system that could have been built for $1896.00. That system included a reciever that supports 4 HDMI outs and 4 HDMI ins. 4 optical outs and 4 optical ins. 7 speakers with a 12inch sub. The system also included a blu ray player, a ipod with the dock as well as 4 HDMI cables and 4 optical cables. The system also included many other things as well, I was also even able to purchess 3 Blu-ray movies.

Conclusion

The Lifestyle(R) system does sound very good but is very over priced. At best the system is only worth about 1500.00. While doing research I found that many people were saying that Bose products were made from cheap parts, so i took apart the entire system. AND ITS TRUE. The most expensive parts of the system are the speakers and they are made out of the cheapest materail. Once again like I said before you cant deny that the system does sound good, but if you push any type of power, you will blow a speaker soon. When you buy a Bose product, you are paying mostly for the name. Before buying this unit I would make sure you do your homework, as well as I would look at some of their other systems. The V-series works much better if you alrady have a blu-ray player and other units with HDMI

HAPPY HUNTINGS.

CEO

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great audio, awkward video, January 24, 2008

By 

Philippe "Phil Reviewer of things" (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bose (43478) LIFESTYLE 48 Home Entertainment System - Series IV - (Black) (Electronics)

Can't complain about the sound that this system puts out, it's great. However, one of the strong selling points of the system is the flexibility that the VS-2 video enhancer provides, which comes with several of the Lifestyle systems.

The concept of the VS-2 sounds great, but in my configuration, it's a paper weight. I have a DirecTv HD-DVR, which can output video from 480i to 1080i. However, when I hook up HDMI from the DVR to the VS-2, and HDMI from the VS-2 to the television, the only way I can get the video signal to the TV is to configure the HD-DVR to put out 480i. So, I basically have to have the HD-DVR downgrade 1080i shows to 480i, just to have the VS-2 upgrade it back. I will have to resort to using composite video from the VS-2 to the television (though I have not tried this yet)to get things to work right. Not using the VS-2 is out of the question, as I can't see the Lifestyle 48's controls (i.e. music library listing, etc...) without it. I tried to argue with the Bose installer about the HDMI incompatibility, but he said not to worry about it, and use Component video, which he said offers a much better video signal than HDMI (ya right).

So, I give it 4 stars for sound, 1 star for video, and a -1 star for false advertising regarding the VS-2 (and the installer giving me false information to make the VS-2 work)

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time and money!, June 15, 2010

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D. C. Elliot - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bose (43478) LIFESTYLE 48 Home Entertainment System - Series IV - (Black) (Electronics)

I bought Bose Lifestyle 48 System over a year ago. Overall video and audio are good, but minor problems include:
a) No Blue-Ray capability for DVD's
b) Poor synchronization of remotes for peripherals like TV & cable; despite what Bose store reps tell you, you can't control eveything with one push of the button - you might as well keep all your remotes.

However, MAJOR problem has to do with UMUSIC system:
One of primary selling points used by Bose store reps is telling you that you can load 200 CDs into system, the Bose will store & remember them all, and by Gracenote technology you can create infinite playlists based on music preferences, and never have to load/reload CD's again. (technology is much like iTune Genius Mix).

Sounded great at the time to me so I bought it, and spent COUNTLESS hours (60? 100?) loading CD's (each takes 10-15 minutes), categorizing them, then training the presets to play what I want (e.g. I don't want Beach Boys singing their version of "Silent Night" when I want to hear a jazz mix...)

Then, one day, our power went out. Only for 10-15 minutes, tops. WIPING OUT ALL MY SAVED CD'S. Now there is no stored music. I talked to Bose rep, at his recommendation sent it to their service center (at my cost), and spent over $150 for them to replace hard drive, AND THEY COULD NOT RECOVER MY STORED MUSIC.

So basically right now I have a basic DVD player with a decent sound system. Needless to say I was P.O.'d. It will be FAR less traumatic for me at this point to connect up my iPhone & play my easily-personalized playlists from that than to waste another month of my life reloading CD's into Bose.

Bottom line: don't waste your money on this turkey. Or your time.