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Bose just announced two soundbar systems for home theaters, the Lifestyle 135 System and CineMate 1 SR System. The devices use a single bar to emit what many would call surround-sound audio
and can be mounted almost anywhere in the room in almost any position. The Lifestyle includes a small console with four HDMI inputs, a tuner, and an iPod/iPhone dock. The CineMate simply
connects to any TV and both include remotes. From the PR: > Bose FlexMount™ automatic placement compensation senses whether > the speaker has been placed horizontally on a table, or
mounted > vertically on a wall. It then automatically adjusts the sound, > offering owners two choices for soundbar setup with the same > assurance of spacious, natural sound. >
> Bose® ADAPTiQ® audio calibration technology offers another > performance assurance: the system will deliver optimal sound in any > room. This > exclusive Bose advancement
first recognizes where the system is > located, and then compensates for how the acoustics of the space > affect its audio quality — customizing the sound for the room’s > unique
size, shape, even furnishings. Now for the bad news: the Lifestyle costs $2,499 and the CineMate costs $1,499. A wall-mount kit is sold separately. That’s obviously a crazy amount to pay for
a speaker bar and a subwoofer, but Bose is expensive for a reason: the speakers pump out good enough audio in a package that requires absolutely no fiddling. After all, for the 90% of us
who don’t want to tune our surround-sound speaker systems to the exacting specifications of our living rooms, there’s Bose. Available this month.