Bose Lifestyle 48

Pros: Balanced sound, accurate base, full midrange and silky highs. Great calibration software.

Cons: None for me.

The Bottom Line: Return policy makes trying it in your home at no-brainer. Read the critics but ultimately listen to your ears.

Review: My background

As an audiophile of many years, I have some very incredible sounding high end gear and built a music room ideally suited to music reproduction. I'm also a concert goer and know what live music of many different kinds sounds...

Pros: Sound, easy to listen to, easy set-up, highs and lows are respectable.

Cons: Pricey. Larger speakers offer better range.

The Bottom Line: It's a good system, but for a set market. A family will sure enjoy this system, and whats more... you cant tell the system is installed.

Review: I'm going to try and write as best I can about my Lifestyle system, the reason I paid the money I did for it.. and why overall it isn't a bad system. I'll also explain what I dislike about the system.

First of all, I'm not a newbie to...

Pros: Brilliant sound. Access to anything in your collection within seconds.

Cons: Haven't found any yet.

Review: Heard it in the store and was blown away. The system lets me hear things I've not heard before on my CDs.The ability to access any track throughout my entire CD collection with one remote is great for me as I have MS and handling discs is...

Pros: Sounds is good

Cons: video and HD Enhancer suck

Review: Love the basic system. The sound is great. The problem seems to be the video portion that plays DVD's. When I bought the system it was also for use with HDTV, which I purchased a few months later. I found that the system isn't compatible with all...

Pros: Great sound, Expandable, Compact, one component does it all.

Cons: To expensive, expensive to expand.

Review: I trust Bose as being an innovator with some of the best sound systems available. It is very easy to install and it's one compact system. Excellent customer support. They make you feel like a member of their family.

Pros: sounded pretty good in the demo room, which was total blue smoke and mirrors

Cons: $4,000???????????? Are these people high?

The Bottom Line: I can't recommend a system that is only miraculous in its ability to fool newbies into thinking they're getting more for their money.

Review: I made a trip to a mall in Tampa, to get a replacement for an iPod whose home button had gone to the great Apple in the sky. While there, it occurred to me to walk into the Bose store and check out its "wave radio." The moment my son and I walked...