Bose Lifestyle 8 Owners Guide

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Setting Up
Connecting the speakers and Lifestyle® music center
Once you have selected locations for your music system, connect the speakers.
CAUTION: Make sure all components are unplugged from the power outlet before you
begin hooking up the system.
Connecting the cube speakers to the Acoustimass® module
Each speaker cable contains two wires. The wire marked with a red collar is positive (+) and
the plain one is negative (–). These wires match the positive...

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Connecting the Acoustimass® module to the Lifestyle® music
center
Connect the Acoustimass module to the music center with the audio input cable (Figure 6).
1. Insert the three male connectors at one end of the audio input cable into the appropriate
jacks on the rear panel of the music center:
•Black connector into the SYSTEM CONTROL 1 jack
•Red connector into the R (right) FIXED OUTPUT jack
•White connector into the L (left) FIXED OUTPUT jack
Note:...

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Setting Up
230 V
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1. Firmly insert the small connector on the end of the AC (mains) power pack cable into the
AC POWER jack on the back of the Lifestyle® music center.
2. Make sure that the power pack reaches an AC (mains) outlet.
Note: Do not plug the AC power pack into a power outlet until all component connections
are complete.
Connecting the Acoustimass® module power (mains) cord
1. On a dual voltage system, the voltage selector switch is preset at...

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Setting Up
Connecting your home theater components to the Lifestyle® 8 system
There are many possible variations of equipment in a home theater. In addition to the
Lifestyle® 8 system, a home theater complement typically includes a stereo or mono TV and
stereo VCR. In a digital home theater system, the primary source may be a DVD player. Your
home theater can include many other combinations of equipment, including cable TV,
laserdisc players,...

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About the video source
Your TV is the display for the video (picture) signal. Thus, the video signal must be connected
directly to the TV. Do not connect it to the Lifestyle® 8 system.
Note: For assistance with video connections between your DVD player and/or VCR and TV,
see your video components manuals.
Note: There is no video signal input (usually a yellow-coded jack) on the music center. The
VIDEO SOUND INPUT jacks are for 
audio from a video source....

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Connecting the antennas
The rear panel of your Lifestyle® music center provides connections for AM and FM antennas
(Figure 12). Unwind each antenna’s wires. Antennas provide better reception when their wires
are not bundled.
Figure 12
The antenna connections
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    Setting Up
Miniature switchesBattery compartment cover 3 AA batteries
Setting radio channel spacing for dual voltage and 120V systems
Dual voltage music centers (which include both 120V and 230V power packs) and 120V
music centers can be set for two types of AM and FM channel spacing.
•Channel spacing for North America is 10 kHz for AM and 200 kHz for FM.
•Channel spacing for Europe is 9 kHz for AM and 50 kHz for FM.
Your dual voltage or 120V music center...

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The music center display
This music center display (Figure 17) provides information on the music center functions.
Figure 17
The music center display
No disc
indicator Play
indicatorPause
indicator CD track and
AM/FM preset
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frequency display
Turning on the music center
Plug the Acoustimass® module power cord into an...