BOSE (R) 5.1 Lifestyle 38 Series III DVD Home Entertainment System ( White )

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 72 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 54.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000HX6MHK
• Item model number: 38 Series III
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #91,432 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

Product Description

Experience the Lifestyle 38 Series III system a home entertainment system and innovative Bose technologies that will change the way you listen to movies and music. Direct/Reflecting cube speaker arrays deliver dramatic sound. A new, sleek center channel speaker integrates with the latest flat-panel televisions. And a new, smaller hideaway Acoustimass module produces the deep, powerful low notes that bring action scenes to life. It can digitally store up to 200 hours of music, while the uMusic intelligent playback system learns your taste in music. ADAPTiQ audio calibration system Proprietary Videostage 5 decoding post-processing circuitry Automatic tonal adjustment provides the proper amount of low frequency content when switching between music and movie sources Digital Dynamic Range compression circuitry TV sensor can determine if the TV is on or off, allowing for TV and sound to power-on with a single button press Stereo AM/FM radio offers 50 presets Composite, S-video and component video input/output capability Bose link enables up to 14 additional rooms of sound, each with its own independent volume and mute control Driver complement - Two magnetically shielded Bose 2-1/2 inch wide-range drivers in each cube speaker array, two 5-1/4 inch woofers in Acoustimass module Dimensions - Media center Height 3-3/4 x Width 15-3/4 x Depth 11-1/2 inches, Cube speakers Height 6-1/4 x Width 3 x Depth 4 inch, Center channel speaker Height 3-1/8 x Width 6-1/4 x Depth 4-1/8, Acoustimass module Height 13 x Depth 21-5/8 x Width 8 inch

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not For Jazz, February 6, 2007

By	D. Stannard (Honolulu) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Despite all the hype in the Product Description, do not buy this product if you plan to store and listen to jazz CD's. Unlike my ancient CD changer, the Bose sytem has no way of compensating for different volume level output on CD's. The result is that you constantly have to have the remote on hand to adjust the volume. And since one of the selling points of the Bose system is that it will randomly play songs from among the hundreds that you store on its hard drive, this means you have to be prepared to manually adjust the volume for each and every song. This is not the ideal way to spend a quiet evening listening to jazz. At the suggestion of my local Bose dealer in Honolulu--which installed my system at significant cost--I called the home office customer service department (1-800-905-2138) and was told that this generally should not be a problem with most CD's.....except jazz. Apparently, jazz recordings--even very recent ones--have greatly varying volume output levels. My old CD changer (which cost a few hundred bucks) could compensate for this, but not the Bose system, which costs thousands. Be warned. If you have a large collection of jazz CD's, as I do, many of them will be rendered worthless by this system...unless you are prepared to adjust the volume level every few minutes.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars product is problematic, January 18, 2007

By	Kevin J. Bailey "Kevin" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have owned Bose electronics and have always been very satisfied. What I did not realize when I purchased this system was the difficulty in integrating it with additional elements throughout the rest of my house. Yes, it could be done, but at a very HIGH price. For example, just adding some additional ambiant sound to my adjoining kitchen area to where the system would be installed was going to run an additional $1,000.00 in equipment plus installation. And that was just the beginning. Sadly, this has sent me looking for alternatives and most likely picking various components from several name brands to do the job that I was hoping an "all in one" system would accomplish.

Thanks and again, I love Bose products, but this one just isn't going to work out this time around.

Kevin Bailey