This proprietary technology
customizes sound to your room's unique characteristics.
A unique system that digitally
stores and organizes your CDs.
The Bose® Lifestyle® 38 Series IV DVD system is designed to listen, learn and adapt to your entertainment preferences, all while delivering Bose® quality sound. Our ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system analyzes and adjusts your Lifestyle® system to account for unique room acoustics. The innovative uMusic® system stores and organizes up to 200 hours of music, and you can hear that music in up to 14 additional rooms throughout your home with Bose® link. An elegant media center features an integrated progressive scan DVD player and AM/FM tuner. And Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays combine with a newly designed horizontal center channel speaker to fit easily in your room. And the VS-2 video enhancer simplifies your system's integration with other sources, including those with HDMI.
Breakthrough technologies make listening easy
The Lifestyle® 38 IV DVD system advances a legacy of performance, elegance and simplicity with proprietary technologies that make listening easy and exciting. The ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system evaluates your room's acoustics and where your speakers are placed. Then it automatically adjusts the sound to your room environment, ensuring consistent Bose quality performance.
Now, consider that CD collection you've compiled for years. Why let it eat up space when you can have thousands of songs right at your fingertips? The Lifestyle® 38 IV DVD system features the uMusic intelligent playback system to digitally store up to 200 hours of your music. While you're listening to your CDs, the uMusic system learns your preferences so it can automatically select and play the songs you enjoy. No menus, no playlists, no computer.
All of this technology resides in one elegant media center, featuring an integrated progressive scan DVD player and AM/FM tuner.
Enjoy Bose sound throughout your home
All Lifestyle® DVD systems are equipped with Bose® link to bring Bose sound to as many as 14 additional rooms, even outdoors. Simply add compatible Bose products for access to your entire music collection from any room in your home. You can choose from two audio streams in any of these rooms and enjoy independent volume control, as well.
Small speakers, big performance
Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays stand just over 6" high, but provide thrilling, enveloping sound for everything you listen to or watch. A horizontal center channel speaker locks dialogue on screen and provides an aesthetic match for flat-panel televisions. These small speakers work in concert with the proprietary Acoustimass® module to fill your room with lifelike surround sound. The Acoustimass module produces resonant lows that add impact to action sequences and depth to musical selections. Just place it in a corner or behind furniture, and all the sound seems to come from the center channel and cube speaker arrays.
Simplicity for your video sources
Simplify the integration of a Lifestyle® system with your video components—including those with HDMI—and get the best picture possible. The new VS-2 video enhancer 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.
From the latest media to your cherished classics, the Lifestyle® 38 IV DVD system has just about all you'll need to create a thrilling home theater experience.
Key Features
Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays Experience rich sound almost anywhere in the room, not just in one small "sweet spot," with this proprietary Bose technology. The cube speaker arrays blend reflected and direct sound to re-create much of a live concert's natural spaciousness.
Acoustimass® module Hear the clarity of pure, low-frequency reproduction, even at the loudest levels. This Bose breakthrough works in concert with the small speakers to deliver the full range of sound. When the module is placed behind a curtain or chair, all of the sound seems to come directly from the small cube speakers.
Horizontal center channel speaker Enables acoustic and aesthetic synchronization with your TV. Keeps dialogue focused on the screen, and complements the dimensions of flat-panel displays.
Lifestyle® media center Enjoy today's most popular audio and video content with this elegant control center, featuring a built-in progressive scan DVD/CD player and AM/FM tuner. You'll have high-quality playback for the latest media formats, including: DVD, DVD-R, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, PCM, digital 5.1, MP3 files and MPEG-2.
VS-2 video enhancer Simplifies the integration of a Lifestyle® system with other video sources, including those with HDMI. Connect just one wire from the VS-2 video enhancer to the back of your TV, and receive the correct audio and video with the press of one button.
ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system
Enjoy greater freedom of speaker placement—without the tonal adjustments. Available only from Bose, this patented, easy-to-use technology analyzes the way your room's dimensions and other variables affect sound, then automatically adjusts the sound of your Lifestyle® DVD system to the acoustics of your room.
Bose® link
Connect compatible Bose products to your Lifestyle® system for listening in as many as 14 additional rooms—even outdoors. With Bose® link technology, you can have independent volume control in each room, as well as access to two different audio streams from the same Lifestyle® system. This technology can also be enabled without any room-to-room wiring with the purchase of the Bose link AL8 homewide wireless audio link.
uMusic® intelligent playback system
This proprietary system digitally stores thousands of songs in the media center, freeing you from managing a cumbersome CD collection. The uMusic system actually listens to your music and learns your preferences to select tracks based on what you like. No menus, no playlists, no computer.
Integrated system design
This system is designed so every element—media center, speakers and Acoustimass module—works in harmony, enhancing performance and ease of operation.
Horizontal center-channel speaker array Designed to visually complement flat-panel TV screens while delivering natural-sounding dialogue and vocals.
Media center with integrated progressive scan DVD player
Enjoy high-quality playback of today's most popular audio and video content, including DVD video, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, PCM, digital 5.1, MP3 files, MPEG-2.
Acoustimass® module
This Bose® breakthrough works in concert with the small speakers to deliver the full range of sound. The module delivers the clarity of pure low-frequency reproduction down to the lowest frequencies, even at the loudest levels. When the module is placed behind a curtain or chair, all of the sound seems to come directly from the small cube speakers.
Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays
Legendary Bose® technology that blends reflected and direct sound to recreate much of a live concert's natural spaciousness. Experience stereo sound almost anywhere in the room, not just in one small "sweet spot."
Direct/Reflecting® speaker technology
Experience lifelike spaciousness from a natural balance of reflected and direct sound—similar to a live performance.
VS-2 video enhancer
Simplifies the integration of a Lifestyle® system with other video sources, including those with HDMI. Connect just one wire from the VS-2 video enhancer to the back of your TV, and receive the correct audio and video with the press of one button.
Proprietary Videostage® 5 decoding circuitry
Proprietary Bose® technology allows you to hear home theater sound from practically everything you play, even older TV programs and videotapes that weren't recorded in surround sound.
Digital 5.1 decoding
Improved realism from 5.1-encoded DVDs, DBS or HDTV.
Control integration
Use the Lifestyle® system's radio frequency remote to operate most popular functions on other infrared-receiving equipment in your home entertainment system: TV, VCR, PVR, cable box or satellite receiver. TV sensor makes turning home entertainment system on a one-button operation.
