Bose Brings Back Its ‘Lifestyle’ Branding With New Speakers for the Home

Bose has three caller speakers to spice up your location listening. The company's caller “Lifestyle Collection”—designed with a snazzy fabric-wrapped grille and gentle curves—includes the Lifestyle Ultra Speaker, Lifestyle Ultra Subwoofer, and Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar. All of them tin beryllium connected to aggregate units and third-party speakers via AirPlay and Google Cast for a amended multi-room audio experience.

These audio products people a “reentering” into the location talker abstraction for the company, bringing backmost the iconic Lifestyle lineup that primitively debuted successful 1990—known for simplicity and easiness of use—which Bose subsequently discontinued successful 2022.

To nary surprise, Bose says the Ultra Soundbar is the “best soundbar we person ever made,” and that the Ultra Speaker mightiness adjacent beryllium 1 of the company's champion successful its storied history. The wireless talker starts astatine $299, with a $349 limited-edition exemplary successful Driftwood Sand; the soundbar costs $1,099, and the subwoofer is $899. They're disposable for preorder present and spell connected merchantability May 15.

These Wi-Fi-enabled speakers enactment AirPlay, Google Cast, Spotify Connect, and, uniquely, are the archetypal to integrate with Alexa+ (in the US only), allowing you to inquire Amazon's chatbot to play euphony done the speakers via dependable commands. There's besides Bluetooth support, and adjacent an auxiliary input for connecting the Ultra Speaker to a turntable.

You tin radical 2 Lifestyle Ultra Speakers into a stereo strategy successful the Bose app, oregon radical them each unneurotic for a location theatre system. Sadly, if you hoped to usage it arsenic a situation strategy with your existing Bose soundbar, the institution says it's lone backward compatible with the Bass Module 700. And with the caller Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar, it tin lone beryllium utilized arsenic a wired connection. For multi-room audio, the institution has passed those grouping duties to the Google Home app for Google Cast technology, oregon Apple’s AirPlay for iOS users. Speaking of the app, there's a redesigned onboarding process that purportedly makes mounting up each of these speakers a breeze.

On the audio front, the Ultra Speaker notably features an upward-firing operator for Dolby Atmos–like spatial audio, on with 2 front-facing drivers. (It doesn't look to enactment Dolby Atmos Music astatine this time.) The institution is besides touting its CleanBass technology, which pairs Bose's QuietPort acoustic opening with the woofer for heavy dependable that performs amended than its size suggests, though we'll person to perceive it for ourselves to spot if it lives up to Bose's claims.