Enjoy spacious surround sound performance with the stylish Lifestyle® 28 DVD home entertainment system. This complete system combines an AM/FM tuner and a DVD/CD player, and brings the experience of a live performance home, with an elegance and simplicity unmatched by traditional components. The ADAPTiQ audio calibration system provides lifelike, enveloping 5.1-channel music and motion picture surround sound performance, regardless of room configuration.
If you are a casual listener like me then trust my word and go get this. Nothing can come close in terms of size, style, performance and brand recognition. The only problem here seems to be the price. If it were available for $1000 then nobody would complain, only because it is expensive that people tend to have a polarized opinion. I considered Denon receiver, Paradigm speakers and other options but for my purpose of movies and some TV it did not make a difference. The bass was enough for what I was watching, I have stereo speakers that provide more thumping bass but the music is not as sweet as the bose. Reading DVDs is a general problem across all top brand DVD players, Sony would not play some DVDs while a low end Coby or Zenith would play anything you put in. Maybe bose will rectify it soon.
Strength
Bose name, Size
Weakness
No HDMI and Component connections.
Visitors rate this review
2.33 out of 5
after 3 votes
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Written By
Kris(Unregistered User)
Date Created
02/19/2007
Summary
I just purchased this product after debating and experiencing various options including a Denon Receiver and Paradigm speakers. If size, style, convenience are important and you are a casual listener like most out there and not a AudioPhile then you will not notice any difference and in fact you will love the Bose more than the other setups. I have a friend that bought a Bose and complained about low bass but did not change the default bass setting, since it can be done only on screen and there is no seperate control or knob for bass and treble control. Most people do not like it and hate it because of the price, if it was available for $1000 or less then it is no longer a problem. As someone pointed out if Bose was using low cost parts and is selling just by marketing it would have gone out of business in no time. Bose has a brand value and they are cashing on it. No matter what, Bose is more recognizable for a common person than any other brand out there and they charge for it. So if you have the money just buy it.
Strength
Small package and Bose brand name.
Weakness
No HDMI or component interfaces.
Visitors rate this review
3.00 out of 5
after 2 votes
Bose sound life-like, if you like the regular stereo sounds Bose LS S III is no for you.
I compared the bose with other top rate system (sony, denon, monitor audio speaker, yamaha, onkyo) and belive me for my ears bose sound better.
Strength
Movie sound incredible, AdaptIQ, bass, quality of sound, remote control, the main unit can update the software,
Weakness
$$$$$$ price, poor DVD, CD performance, the ipod sound much better (very good quality sound) for aux input belive me
Visitors rate this review
3.76 out of 5
after 21 votes
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Written By
ramesh(Unregistered User)
Date Created
12/21/2006
Summary
I love my LS28 when it is working that is. It does not play many of the original DVDs which play on my other home devices. Does anyone know if there is a Bose firmware upgrade available to fix this problem?
Bose reminds me of my old Mercedez - great when it run.
ramesh
Strength
sound
Weakness
does not work with all the DVDs.
Visitors rate this review
4.00 out of 5
after 4 votes
I have a couple reviews here that, after reading, were not as concise and accurate as they should be. So let me clarify some things about this system.
1) I have had problems with the CD/DVD player. It works most of the time, but like others, it does have problems.
2) The Bass and treble are adjustable from -14 to +14, but you need to do that on screen in your TV, or you cannot adjust it.
3) Yes, after tuning the system, it has tons of deep, rich bass and the highs and over sound of the cubes are very good. You can adjust the center cube -7 to +7. You can also adjust the Bose Patented surround sound the same.
4) Customer service is great. If they do work on your system, the warranty starts over for an additional year. You pay no shipping either way. If you need an original box to ship any part back, they will send that to you free of charge.
5) I have no problem with this system, except the poor performance of the CD/DVD.
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Weakness
Visitors rate this review
3.75 out of 5
after 4 votes
3.13 of 5
