Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #38134 in Home Theater
- Color: Black
- Brand: Bose
- Model: 40431
- Dimensions: 77.00 pounds
Features
- Our most popular 5-speaker DVD surround sound system for larger rooms
- Direct/Reflecting® speakers, horizontal center speaker
- Customized audio performance for your room
- Optional accessory available for HDMI connectivity.
- Link home networking: Technology to connect compatible Bose products for a whole-home entertainment solution.
Bose Lifestyle 28 Series III DVD Home Entertainment System - Black
Product Description
The Lifestyle® 28 Series III DVD home entertainment system adds exhilarating sound to your movies and music with performance you expect from Bose. It customizes home theater system sound to your room with the innovative ADAPTiQ® system. The stylish media center features a progressive scan DVD/CD player and AM/FM tuner. Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays and a horizontal center-channel speaker fill your room with spacious surround sound. From premium performance to elegance, the Lifestyle® 28 DVD home theater audio system is made for your room-with all its unique characteristics. Its ADAPTiQ audio calibration system delivers a consistent surround sound presentation in any room, while offering greater freedom of speaker placement. This proprietary technology analyzes and adjusts the home theater system's sound to your room's dimensions, speaker placement and preferred seating locations. Great sound never looked so good Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays, standing roughly 6" high, blend nicely with your décor. They combine with a sleek, horizontal center-channel speaker to deliver a level of sound you'd expect from much larger speakers. And the Acoustimass® module reproduces deep low notes while stationed inconspicuously almost anywhere in your room. The brushed silver media center elegantly accomplishes everything that conventional DVD home theater systems use multiple components to achieve. But it's also the hub of a whole-home entertainment system, made possible by Bose® link technology. So you can have independent volume control in each room, as well as access to two different audio streams from the same Lifestyle® home entertainment system.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
61 of 64 people found the following review helpful.
Not nearly as good as systems based on Bose Jewel Cube speakers
By Peter Q. Venkman
Recently got a Bose Lifestyle 28 refurb unit, it was still pretty expensive. Quick thoughts:Setup: the build quality and cables are all top-notch. Everything has a plug and every single wire was easy to set up. The wires didn't hide too wel in the two sets of stands I bought from Bose. Using the adapti-q system to balance the speakers was the appeal of the system.Video: the new progressive scan features use a combo s-video and composite y-adapter to component to send a full progressive scan signal. I was skeptical at first, but was pretty pleased with the image quality and black levels put out by the unit on the LG 32LC2D HDTV. Not bad picture and it really did put out progressinve scan!The central unit still relies to heavily on legacy ports: composite everywhere, 2 s-video, 2 coaxial and only 1 optical input. If you have an Xbox 360 and a PS3 (or two) only one of them will work with optical on this system.Audio: there was no hiss or noise that I could hear when the system was on and no sound was playing, that's a plus. Video games through the optical sounded pretty good through the optical input, although separation was lost a little in the speakers. CD-based Music sounded pleasingly warm.Now the bad part: this speaker set produces pretty crummy sound for movies. Dialog sounded muffled and quiet, voices were causing the acoustimass module to kick in a little too much- resulting in deep tones associated with normal voices on the Hot Fuzz DVD, while voice work in Star Wars sounded like people were talking through a pillow! Large battle scenes lost their high-end sparkle- the clangs of swords, shattering of glass, or screeching of tires all were toned down and warmed by the over-powering tilt towards mid sounds in the acoustimass module.Bass response was powerful although undefined and needs tighter response. Staccato sounds become a constant tone.Giant battle scenes in Star Wars and LOTR became a mess in surround- nothing was distinct or separated. The opening Tripod sequence in War of the Worlds had heavy bass, powerful mids, and almost nothing else. The bursting of the pavement was ominously powerful, but the crumbling dirt, smashed cars, and zaps of energy beams were all muted and lost by the overzealous acoustimass module. Screams of the crowd became lost in the soundtrack of the movie! Brass and violas were more readily audible than the scream of a charcter on camera.I turned the treble compensation all the way up to little improvement, except it made "s" sounds in dialog sizzle too much, while keeping vowels in the deep mid-tone prison. Easing down bass compensation dropped the Low frequncy channel effects, but left dialog sounding way too bass heavy and overly warm in that same area of overcompensation. I ran the adapt-IQ system again and again, I moved furniture, and called customer service. These did not help and I became increasingly alarmed about spending $1850 on this system.Ultimately, I decided to return my $1850 Bose Lifestyle 28's and stick with my $150 Klipsch Pro Media 5.1. These speakers are not great, but at least I can hear what people are saying in films. There is better seperation in this setup than in Bose's direct/reflecting speakers.The Bose cost ten times as much, produced 10 times the room filling sound, but left nothing distict enough to hear in movies for an average OR discerning listener.If you have the money, try the Lifestyle 35's, as they produce a much brighter sound and still have enough mid and deep range to make movies pop.Avoid the Lifestyle 28's and get a Home theater in a box solution from one of the major retailers.A big, and expensive disappointment.Customer Service notes: I have to end this with the fact that despite my clear frustrations, I was treated with incredible courtesy and friendliness by everyone at Bose. I have not had a better experience so far with a customer service department.
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
home theater taken to the next level, expensive, but you get what you paid for
By iboca
I spend at least 3 months doing some research on which home theater system was the best for me. well after trying some brands that, according to the whole internet, are quite superior to Bose, and some super cheap configurations that according to some reviewers (from other sites), where better than Bose, I ended up coming back to my choice number one from the very beginning....BOSE lifestyle systems...My friends have "yamaha", "sony", "klipch", and all the additions you can put on those HT's, but I was no satisfied. maybe it was their configuration, but the sound starts breaking after a couple of minutes after playing in higher volumes, DVD's whete OK in the sony, ang good in the yamaha, but blue ray disc soundtrack was horrible in both of them...tryed a magnolia 1000 dollars worth from BB, andit was good, but not what I was looking for.then decided to put some more money in my investment and ended up buying my Bose lifestyle system 28 series. I am totally satisfied. the Bass is not cheesy neither booming, is perfect. tremble was adjusted in a little lower setting, and the ADAPT IQ did the rest...since I have the bose VS-2, the DVD resolution is excellent, and sound is powerful, crisp, NORMAL (not timpanic membrane breakingly abnormal), CD playback is excellent. Playing games is a pleasure, with sorround sound, Dolby digital via optical cable...I also have a logitech squeezebox duet connected to it, and works astonishingly, with the coaxial cable connection...well I do not know if thiis HT system was made for me, but fullfils all my entretainment demands, in one single package, easy to install and configure, and no matter how you try to hide the it (for nobody to judge just by the brand), every guest I have had, have made comments about the sound (it doesn't matter what we are doing in front of the TV), somebody notices a difference for good.An advise is: NEVER READ REVIEWS from the interner about this brand, because the ones so called (I did not have enough money, so I decided to write a bad review instead), are WRONG. It is a grear HT and if you have the money available, get one of those, and you will forget about all those difficult to use configurations and systems that work partially.note:the good: great sound better that everithing else around, easy to use and set up, excellent support service, and does what it whas meant to do.the bad: pricey, bose shuld invent "WIRELESS SPEAKERS" (all 5 of them) because cables aren't easy to hide.all in all, bose is a matter of afordability, but if you can afford it, GET IT
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Behind the times, expensive and proprietary
By DC Machead
I purchased this item in 2007 when HDMI was relatively new. Setup was a breeze, the sound was great and it worked very well for 2 1/2 years at which point the CD/DVD player started having read errors. I called Bose and they said it would be $165 to repair it (with a new 1 year warranty) and to add HDMI I could buy a box to connect to the Lifestyle for $300.At that point, I decided I'd keep the speakers and buy a new receiver ($165 repair + $300 HDMI box = $465 = modern receiver with a bazillion connections). The receiver arrived and I discovered the Acoustimass speakers that come with the Lifestyle 28 have a proprietary connector that only works with Bose products, unlike the standalone Acoustimass speakers which can connect to everything.If I had it to do over again, I would not buy this product because of the proprietary connectors on the speakers. Most modern receivers have microphones that you can use to optimize the sound in your space--this was a big selling point for me when I bought the Bose. I'll give Bose points for repairing the product and issuing a new warranty on it long after the purchase.
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