Setting Up; Before You Begin - Bose 12 Owner's Manual

Setting Up

Before you begin

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Thank you for purchasing the Bose
tainment system offers superb sound, elegance, technology, and simplicity for music and
home theater.
Your system includes:
• A Lifestyle ® music center with built-in AM/FM radio and compact disc (CD) player
• Inputs for a video sound source, an auxiliary source, and a tape deck
• Powered Acoustimass
• An easy-to-use remote control
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Bose Videostage decoder technology enables the Lifestyle
realism of movie sound especially for a home environment. When a movie soundtrack or CD
is produced in a surround sound format, specially encoded sound is sent to any or all of the
available speakers. Dialogue is usually sent to the front speakers. Sounds from the left or
right side of the picture are sent to left or right front speakers. Ambient sounds or special
effects may be sent to the surround (rear) speakers. Bose Videostage circuitry automatically
directs the sound to the correct speakers.
To select surround-encoded material, look for any of the terms Surround, Dolby Surround,
and the double-D symbol
preceding a TV broadcast.
When sound is recorded in stereo, but not surround-encoded, Videostage decoder technol-
ogy directs it to the most appropriate speakers based on the signals received. When viewing
older movies or listening to other monaural programs on your Lifestyle
Videostage circuitry directs sound so it appears to come from the center of the TV screen.
You can listen to any program material in SURROUND (5-speaker) mode, whether the
program is surround-encoded, stereo, or monaural. You will not hear sound from all five
speakers all of the time. Even with surround-encoded material there are times when no
sounds are directed to the surround speakers. You can select the speaker mode that sounds
best to you for each particular program.
* Dolby and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation.
December 20, 2001
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Lifestyle 12 system. This complete audio home enter-
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speakers with a hide-away Acoustimass module
* on tapes and discs, and the word "surround"
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