The Bose® Lifestyle® amplifier - Owner's guide
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... Personal music center allows you to control up the Personal music center for the first time. If two or more rooms are connected to your Lifestyle® system owner's guide for more than one room. Note: Refer to your system in more than one room of Bose...However, if you purchase a second Personal music center, you must follow the procedure for setting up to control more information on operating your system, the Personal music center displays ROOM and HOUSE buttons, and room indicators (A, B, C, and/or D). Setting Up Your Lifestyle® Stereo Amplifier Figure 7 Sample ...
... Personal music center allows you to control up the Personal music center for the first time. If two or more rooms are connected to your Lifestyle® system owner's guide for more than one room. Note: Refer to your system in more than one room of Bose...However, if you purchase a second Personal music center, you must follow the procedure for setting up to control more information on operating your system, the Personal music center displays ROOM and HOUSE buttons, and room indicators (A, B, C, and/or D). Setting Up Your Lifestyle® Stereo Amplifier Figure 7 Sample ...
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... AC (mains) outlet until all other connections are complete. 1. Select a music source with your new remote control and adjust the vol- Using the power cord included with your Personal® music center or your Lifestyle® stereo amplifier, firmly insert the small connector on... one end of the Lifestyle® stereo amplifier and your liking. If you have a dual voltage Lifestyle® amplifier •...
... AC (mains) outlet until all other connections are complete. 1. Select a music source with your new remote control and adjust the vol- Using the power cord included with your Personal® music center or your Lifestyle® stereo amplifier, firmly insert the small connector on... one end of the Lifestyle® stereo amplifier and your liking. If you have a dual voltage Lifestyle® amplifier •...
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... located on the bottom of used batteries properly, following any local regulations. The CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT label is located on the bottoms of your Lifestyle® Personal® music center, Acoustimass® module, multi-room interface, and CD changer: The lightning flash with this owner's guide. Batteries Please dispose of the unit. AVIS RISQUE...
... located on the bottom of used batteries properly, following any local regulations. The CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT label is located on the bottoms of your Lifestyle® Personal® music center, Acoustimass® module, multi-room interface, and CD changer: The lightning flash with this owner's guide. Batteries Please dispose of the unit. AVIS RISQUE...
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...Personal™ music center 43 Maintaining Your Lifestyle® 50 System 44 Finding a misplaced Personal™ music center 44 Replacing batteries ...44 Cleaning the system ...45 Troubleshooting ...46 Warranty period ...47 Customer Service ...47 Product Information ...48 Technical information ...48 Accessories ...48 Index ...49 Bose... Up ...4 Before you keep your system 17 Setting up the Personal™ music center 17 Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System 18 Turning on the bottom panels of the Personal music center, multi-room interface, CD changer, and the Acoustimass® ...
...Personal™ music center 43 Maintaining Your Lifestyle® 50 System 44 Finding a misplaced Personal™ music center 44 Replacing batteries ...44 Cleaning the system ...45 Troubleshooting ...46 Warranty period ...47 Customer Service ...47 Product Information ...48 Technical information ...48 Accessories ...48 Index ...49 Bose... Up ...4 Before you keep your system 17 Setting up the Personal™ music center 17 Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System 18 Turning on the bottom panels of the Personal music center, multi-room interface, CD changer, and the Acoustimass® ...
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... disks. Technological innovations that make the Lifestyle® 50 system unique include the Bose Personal™ music center, which places all new Videostage® decoder that uses digital signal processing. Realism and impact Your Lifestyle® 50 system is equipped with four independent audio...that of movies is a clear departure from Bose. Dialogue remains locked on tapes and discs, and the word "surround" preceding a TV broadcast. • Stereo program material from conventional. The interactive Personal music center is enhanced by loud special effects. Automatic sound...
... disks. Technological innovations that make the Lifestyle® 50 system unique include the Bose Personal™ music center, which places all new Videostage® decoder that uses digital signal processing. Realism and impact Your Lifestyle® 50 system is equipped with four independent audio...that of movies is a clear departure from Bose. Dialogue remains locked on tapes and discs, and the word "surround" preceding a TV broadcast. • Stereo program material from conventional. The interactive Personal music center is enhanced by loud special effects. Automatic sound...
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... original packing materials provide the safest way to use . If any part of children. Notify Bose® or your Lifestyle® 50 system. Check to avoid injury. Use good lifting practice to be sure your Lifestyle® 50 system: • Personal music center • CD changer • Multi-room interface • Interface power pack* • 5 Jewel Cube®...
... original packing materials provide the safest way to use . If any part of children. Notify Bose® or your Lifestyle® 50 system. Check to avoid injury. Use good lifting practice to be sure your Lifestyle® 50 system: • Personal music center • CD changer • Multi-room interface • Interface power pack* • 5 Jewel Cube®...
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... connector on the audio input cable (connecting the multi-room interface with the module) using the Personal™ music center. If a valid digital signal is received by the Lifestyle® 50 system through your TV: • Connect the TV fixed audio outputs to the VIDEO 2 inputs...; 50 system Cable TV DVD player VCR Digital audio output L R V Multi-room interface L R V ANTENNA FM AM AUX L AUDIO INPUT RECORD VIDEO 1 VIDEO 2 TAPE IN OUT L L L L AUDIO INPUT ROOM A (PRIMARY) ROOM B POWER R R R R R BOSE CD ROOM C ROOM D SERIAL DATA ! It is to the stereo position. ...
... connector on the audio input cable (connecting the multi-room interface with the module) using the Personal™ music center. If a valid digital signal is received by the Lifestyle® 50 system through your TV: • Connect the TV fixed audio outputs to the VIDEO 2 inputs...; 50 system Cable TV DVD player VCR Digital audio output L R V Multi-room interface L R V ANTENNA FM AM AUX L AUDIO INPUT RECORD VIDEO 1 VIDEO 2 TAPE IN OUT L L L L AUDIO INPUT ROOM A (PRIMARY) ROOM B POWER R R R R R BOSE CD ROOM C ROOM D SERIAL DATA ! It is to the stereo position. ...
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.... 1. Press and hold MUTE for the first time 4 AAA batteries Battery compartment cover a. Alkaline batteries are first installed in the music center, it sets up if it up a radio-frequency link with the multi-room interface again. Note: Your speakers will not operate ...Plug the Acoustimass® module power cord into place. 5. AM189854_05_V.PDF October 17, 2001 17 Setting up the Personal™ music center Set up the Personal music center after the rest of the music center (Figure 17). 3. Insert 4 AAA or IEC-R03 1.5V batteries, or the equivalent, as shown. After ...
.... 1. Press and hold MUTE for the first time 4 AAA batteries Battery compartment cover a. Alkaline batteries are first installed in the music center, it sets up if it up a radio-frequency link with the multi-room interface again. Note: Your speakers will not operate ...Plug the Acoustimass® module power cord into place. 5. AM189854_05_V.PDF October 17, 2001 17 Setting up the Personal™ music center Set up the Personal music center after the rest of the music center (Figure 17). 3. Insert 4 AAA or IEC-R03 1.5V batteries, or the equivalent, as shown. After ...
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Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Turning on the system You are ready to wake up the display...Turning on pages 29-34. The display is portable, communicating with external components" on page 22. Touch the music center screen to enjoy your new Lifestyle® system. Note: Initially, the AM and FM sources turn on that you used , or press ...the last source used appears on 1. All other sources initially turn on in more about the display, see "Using the Personal music center display" on pages 20-21. • To operate the AM/FM radio, see "Listening to the radio" on pages...
Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Turning on the system You are ready to wake up the display...Turning on pages 29-34. The display is portable, communicating with external components" on page 22. Touch the music center screen to enjoy your new Lifestyle® system. Note: Initially, the AM and FM sources turn on that you used , or press ...the last source used appears on 1. All other sources initially turn on in more about the display, see "Using the Personal music center display" on pages 20-21. • To operate the AM/FM radio, see "Listening to the radio" on pages...
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Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Using the Personal™ music center display The music center display provides information on . 20 October 17, 2001 AM189854_05_V.PDF The Lifestyle® system can select an external component and adjust the volume, but it is alerting you to the left and right ... is selected or if the power is on the system functions. The top of the screen displays information about a system function. The center area also includes indication of the system. Use the KEYPAD button to show or hide the keypad buttons and select PRESET or TUNE, ...
Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Using the Personal™ music center display The music center display provides information on . 20 October 17, 2001 AM189854_05_V.PDF The Lifestyle® system can select an external component and adjust the volume, but it is alerting you to the left and right ... is selected or if the power is on the system functions. The top of the screen displays information about a system function. The center area also includes indication of the system. Use the KEYPAD button to show or hide the keypad buttons and select PRESET or TUNE, ...
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See "Cleaning the Personal™ music center" on page 35. CD OPTIONS Select this option to select which source is ... the number of externally connected components. See "Selecting the number of external sources" on page 22. Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Figure 22 Selecting MENU items - See "Optimizing AM/FM radio reception" on page 36, or "Equalizing the...You can set presets directly from any menu item by pressing the MENU button to , and adjust surround and center speaker volume levels. See "Using the CD OPTIONS menu" on pages 32-34. If you return to read...
See "Cleaning the Personal™ music center" on page 35. CD OPTIONS Select this option to select which source is ... the number of externally connected components. See "Selecting the number of external sources" on page 22. Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Figure 22 Selecting MENU items - See "Optimizing AM/FM radio reception" on page 36, or "Equalizing the...You can set presets directly from any menu item by pressing the MENU button to , and adjust surround and center speaker volume levels. See "Using the CD OPTIONS menu" on pages 32-34. If you return to read...
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.... If you turn off a room. For other sources. Figure 24 Selecting enhanced mode (FILM BASS) for movie soundtracks Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Using enhanced mode for movie soundtracks Pressing VIDEO 1 or VIDEO 2 initially turns the system on in the standard listening mode. ... material Bose® Videostage® decoding can be engaged for all other mono program sources, you watch older, pre-stereo movies. Enhanced mode is displayed, press either of movie soundtracks. When enhanced mode is On for AM and off using the Personal™ music center. Initially...
.... If you turn off a room. For other sources. Figure 24 Selecting enhanced mode (FILM BASS) for movie soundtracks Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Using enhanced mode for movie soundtracks Pressing VIDEO 1 or VIDEO 2 initially turns the system on in the standard listening mode. ... material Bose® Videostage® decoding can be engaged for all other mono program sources, you watch older, pre-stereo movies. Enhanced mode is displayed, press either of movie soundtracks. When enhanced mode is On for AM and off using the Personal™ music center. Initially...
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...the display. You can engage or disengage Digital Dynamic Range compression using the Personal music center. Digital Dynamic Range compression is made between your DVD player or Digital TV's digital audio output and your Lifestyle® system does not receive a valid PCM or Dolby Digital bitstream, it...MPEG-2 or DTS digital bitstreams. Make sure a connection is initially disengaged for about two seconds. Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Figure 26 Selecting Digital Dynamic Range compression Digital Dynamic Range® compression This feature automatically monitors and adjusts ...
...the display. You can engage or disengage Digital Dynamic Range compression using the Personal music center. Digital Dynamic Range compression is made between your DVD player or Digital TV's digital audio output and your Lifestyle® system does not receive a valid PCM or Dolby Digital bitstream, it...MPEG-2 or DTS digital bitstreams. Make sure a connection is initially disengaged for about two seconds. Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Figure 26 Selecting Digital Dynamic Range compression Digital Dynamic Range® compression This feature automatically monitors and adjusts ...
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...into memory under the selected ITEM number. The next available item number is flashing to indicate that the music center is playing. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 to add more than one Personal™ music center, only one user can edit the play list at a time. To create or edit a CD ... the ITEM right arrow for programming (Figure 36). 2. Select the number of up to 50 tracks (including repeats) from the loaded discs. Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Programming a CD play list Using the Lifestyle® system's programming feature, you can create your play list, press DONE to exit...
...into memory under the selected ITEM number. The next available item number is flashing to indicate that the music center is playing. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 to add more than one Personal™ music center, only one user can edit the play list at a time. To create or edit a CD ... the ITEM right arrow for programming (Figure 36). 2. Select the number of up to 50 tracks (including repeats) from the loaded discs. Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Programming a CD play list Using the Lifestyle® system's programming feature, you can create your play list, press DONE to exit...
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Turn on your Personal music center to select the desired component. To begin, make sure the component is selected. Note: The Lifestyle® 50 system cannot turn RECORD OUT off. The appropriate display indicator appears when the system is on and the component is turned on and a tape, ...external sources" on page 37. This turns your system on and selects the component connected to that is not an immediate risk to your Personal™ music center to the RECORD OUT jacks even if you are designated by using its owner's manual if necessary. Control all other functions at the ...
Turn on your Personal music center to select the desired component. To begin, make sure the component is selected. Note: The Lifestyle® 50 system cannot turn RECORD OUT off. The appropriate display indicator appears when the system is on and the component is turned on and a tape, ...external sources" on page 37. This turns your system on and selects the component connected to that is not an immediate risk to your Personal™ music center to the RECORD OUT jacks even if you are designated by using its owner's manual if necessary. Control all other functions at the ...
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...the arrow keys to adjust the signal level settings (GAIN) of the connected sources until Lcd appears. Figure 43 Beep adjustment display Adjusting the Personal™ music center beep You can adjust the loudness of the display. For example, you can adjust the contrast of the beep made when pressing the display ... upper arrow buttons to select between Lo, HI, and - - (off). Use the lower arrow buttons to +15. Figure 41 Gain adjustment display Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Equalizing the volume levels of external sources The SIGNAL LEVELS selection in source. 1.
...the arrow keys to adjust the signal level settings (GAIN) of the connected sources until Lcd appears. Figure 43 Beep adjustment display Adjusting the Personal™ music center beep You can adjust the loudness of the display. For example, you can adjust the contrast of the beep made when pressing the display ... upper arrow buttons to select between Lo, HI, and - - (off). Use the lower arrow buttons to +15. Figure 41 Gain adjustment display Operating Your Lifestyle® 50 System Equalizing the volume levels of external sources The SIGNAL LEVELS selection in source. 1.
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... 48 Example display for a two-room system The ROOM button lets you change the radio station, CD track, etc., of Bose® powered speakers, allowing your system, the Personal™ music center displays ROOM and HOUSE buttons, and room indicators (A, B, C, and/or D). The VOLUME, MUTE, ON/OFF, and SLEEP... in rooms represented by a boxed letter. When you make using the VOLUME, MUTE, ON/OFF, or SLEEP buttons. Operating a Multi-Room Lifestyle® 50 System Operating in more rooms that is affected by any source changes, or any change sources for all affected rooms at the same time. A...
... 48 Example display for a two-room system The ROOM button lets you change the radio station, CD track, etc., of Bose® powered speakers, allowing your system, the Personal™ music center displays ROOM and HOUSE buttons, and room indicators (A, B, C, and/or D). The VOLUME, MUTE, ON/OFF, and SLEEP... in rooms represented by a boxed letter. When you make using the VOLUME, MUTE, ON/OFF, or SLEEP buttons. Operating a Multi-Room Lifestyle® 50 System Operating in more rooms that is affected by any source changes, or any change sources for all affected rooms at the same time. A...
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...Press the ROOM button again. The indicators A B appear on different sources in each room: 1. Rooms listening to select room . Wake up the Personal music center. 2. Press the ROOM button again and notice that the VIDEO 1 source is displayed. Press the ROOM button again to a shared source can ...Personal™ music center. 2. Press the FM source button and adjust the volume to hear in rooms A and B: 1. See "Setting up a shared source Now, let's say you have gained control of a single room. The room indicators on page 43. Operating a Multi-Room Lifestyle® 50 ...
...Press the ROOM button again. The indicators A B appear on different sources in each room: 1. Rooms listening to select room . Wake up the Personal music center. 2. Press the ROOM button again and notice that the VIDEO 1 source is displayed. Press the ROOM button again to a shared source can ...Personal™ music center. 2. Press the FM source button and adjust the volume to hear in rooms A and B: 1. See "Setting up a shared source Now, let's say you have gained control of a single room. The room indicators on page 43. Operating a Multi-Room Lifestyle® 50 ...
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... setup instructions on for the first time close to the multi-room interface to allow the new music center to one Personal™ music center If you have a multi-room system, you can add additional music centers for all connected rooms that are on, even if any were previously muted individually. To cancel this...by the same amount in all off. Note: If you do this command, press HOUSE then MUTE again. Operating a Multi-Room Lifestyle® 50 System Using the HOUSE button Using the HOUSE button, you can link all rooms that are on. AM189854_05_V.pdf October 17, 2001 43
... setup instructions on for the first time close to the multi-room interface to allow the new music center to one Personal™ music center If you have a multi-room system, you can add additional music centers for all connected rooms that are on, even if any were previously muted individually. To cancel this...by the same amount in all off. Note: If you do this command, press HOUSE then MUTE again. Operating a Multi-Room Lifestyle® 50 System Using the HOUSE button Using the HOUSE button, you can link all rooms that are on. AM189854_05_V.pdf October 17, 2001 43
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...;E SLEEP ÂUTE ÂENU VOLUÂE System settings are not lost when batteries are nearly depleted. Maintaining Your Lifestyle® 50 System Finding a misplaced Personal™ music center The "find me" feature assists you in any rooms that are on and any music center within range of the multi-room interface eventually begins beeping and flashing.
...;E SLEEP ÂUTE ÂENU VOLUÂE System settings are not lost when batteries are nearly depleted. Maintaining Your Lifestyle® 50 System Finding a misplaced Personal™ music center The "find me" feature assists you in any rooms that are on and any music center within range of the multi-room interface eventually begins beeping and flashing.