Bose Lifestyle 235

There’s more to sound than your count of speakers and wattage, and the 235 proves it

When Bose announced its first 2.1 system in India, 5.1 channel audio systems were already a rage. Ergo, people dismissed it without giving it a try. Then, some did give it a try. And most of them found that the 2.1 could produce richer sound than the 5.1s those days. The story is set to repeat itself now. While 7.1 channel systems are in the market, Bose has launched another 2.1 system—the Lifestyle 235. And it too can beat many of the latest gizmos silly.

While buying high-quality speakers or upgrading a home theatre system, the things to look out for in the speakers and system are: ease of use and maintainance, ease in wiring it up, and of course great sound quality. If it is only quality-of-sound that you want, then the number of speakers or their wattage should not be too big a consideration.

What the 235 lacks in number of speakers, it makes up for by employing a number of proprietary Bose technologies. One such is the Gemstone ES Speaker array. Here, each speaker array has three drivers (speakers for normal speak), out of which two face forward (towards the listener), and one is positioned to the side to throw sound in a manner that it surrounds the listener. If this speaker arrangement were tried with any other system, there would be a delay between the two sounds— resulting in an echo. Bose, therefore, precisely controls the sound from all the ‘drivers’ so that all sounds reach a listener simultaneously—using its TrueSpace Digital Signal Processing.

Anyone who has used a high-end audio system knows that the system needs to be customised for each room—incorporating its size, shape and even the furnishings. The 235 does this with an automated engine.

The 235 also comes with a built in AM/FM tuner, and a control console that lets you connect up to 4 HDMI sources and 2 HD audios. It also has video upscaling capabilities, so that you can upscale your standard DVD content to 1080 p. Besides the stereo speaker arrays, the Accoustimass Module gives Bose systems their unique edge.

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