Want to connect non-bose speakers to a bose lifestyle system

It looks like the P38 is the powered Sub Woofer to the Lifestyle 38 system.

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Sept 27, 2017

Can My Old Bose Lifestyle System Be Repaired? - WB South

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No!

This is what it says in the manual:

The Lifestyle

stereo amplifier is designed for use with Bose non-powered environmental speakers or
Bose non-powered accessory speakers ONLY

What makes background sound comes out from Bose lifestyle 38 system is because there is jack cable or a cable that has a jack mouth that brings out a mono sound is being inserted..

Mono cables, when inserted inside a wrong input,it's makes the sound comes out with a background noise just like the one you can hear from it now..it seems as if you are not using the right cable for connection..

To resolve these issue, you will need to use the right cable for connection, by doing these,you will get a clearer sound from you Bose lifestyle 38..

Also it can be from the settings inside the Bose lifestyle 38...So you will need to check both sides to resolve this issue..

You will need to use the manual to know the right cable and the right setting for clear volume..

You can download the user's guide from the below link..



http://www.retrevo.com/support/Bose-Lifestyle-38-Series-III-Home-Theater-Systems-manual/id/524dj979/t/2/


Hope it helped.

Thanks for using fixya..

On a Bose 38, the volume will self adjust at start, and then you will be able to change volume using either radio remote, or buttons on main unit (the one with DVD).

If the unit is not responding , then there is a fault.

A fault where the Bose 38 is working (eg. you can swap from DVD to AUX on bose), but you cannot control volume (you do not see the values on main unit display) is rather unusual.

Ensure that you have correctly connected TV, receiver, or any other external device to the bose in Input, not in output from Bose.
If you have an HDTV, use the optical input on Bose, that is the only digital audio in on a Bose 38.

Check if the problem depends on connections, if it does not, let me know.

I repaired the contol unit per instructions from a post at FixYa.

Yes, there should be no issues at all with just using different speakers. Just connect the 191's as you would the cubes and you should be fine. Please rate my answer, thanks.

The 2 system are completely different your is low level input and its is having only 2 input L and R when those signal they get inside your sub it process through an DSP ( Digital Signal Processor ) and become 5 output to yours satellite cube speakers
The AM6 or 10 are high level input connected direct to any output of any AMP from those signal they convert down to low frequency for sub woofer

I have also have this problem with a lifestyle 28 system. Bose sent me a new cable then a software update. The problem remained, after contacting Bose and unplugging cables and powering down the system this solved the problem. However 2 days after and the problem has re-appeared. Back to square one. I should add that this is the second unit I have had the retailer exchanged the last one because of the same problem.