Bose Releases New Lifestyle T20, V25 & V35 Home Entertainment Systems

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Purchasing a 5.1 surround sound home entertainment system can be great, but setting it up can be a real hassle. Bose has introduced three new home theater systems to its Lifestyle range that claims to be real simple to set up with easy-to-follow onscreen messages. However, the Lifestyle T20, V25 and V35 systems don’t come cheap, starting from $2,000, $2,500 and $3,300 respectively.

Bose’s Lifestyle systems are built around Bose’s Unify technology. As the name suggests, everything in the range work together smoothly and setting up is pain-free with straightforward instructions and clearly labeled packaging.

Doug Lanford, director of Bose’s home theater product marketing, commented that:

Many of today’s home entertainment systems are feature-rich, but if an owner can’t access those features, they don’t offer any real value. The new Lifestyle systems deliver what’s been missing in the market—a truly simplified, high-quality home theater system.

Bose added three new systems to its Lifestyle range this week. The T20, V25 and V35 come with five small speaker arrays and a hideaway Acoustimass module. They also include Bose’s ADAPTiQ audio calibration system where the technology is able to analyze the room’s dimensions and object placements and automatically adjust the sound system to the acoustics of the room.

The prices for these Lifestyle home entertainment systems aren’t as cheap as you would like them to be. The basic T20 system retails for about $2,000 but doesn’t include an iPod/iPhone dock, radio or a DVD/CD player. If you want the complete package, you’d have to fork out $4,000 for the Lifestyle 48 system. Even that doesn’t include a DVD/CD player that is Blu-ray compatible.

You can find most complete home entertainment systems for less than $2,000 these days and they would even support Blu-ray. Even if Bose’s Lifestyle range is completely simple to set up, keep in mind that you could probably hire a technician to install a complicated home theater system for less than $100 per hour.

In terms of value for money, it all comes down to the sound quality of the Lifestyle systems. Although frankly speaking, I haven’t been too impressed by the quality of Bose’s speakers. What do you think? Are the new Lifestyle systems value for money?