Bose 50 - Manual (Page 43)

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Operating a Multi-Room Lifestyle ® 50 System
Operating in more than one room
Your Lifestyle ® 50 system can control up to four sets of Bose ® powered speakers, allowing
your family to enjoy different audio sources (CD, radio, TV, etc.) in up to four rooms. These
rooms are referred to as room A, B, C, and D, with room A being the primary room (the one
used for a one-room system). If two or more rooms are connected to your system, the
Personal™ music center displays ROOM and HOUSE buttons, and room indicators (A, B, C,
and/or D). Figure 48 shows an example display for a two-room system.
Figure 48
Example display for a two-room
system
The room indicators tell you what was selected by the
ROOM or HOUSE button
The ROOM button lets you control a single room or two or more rooms that share a source
The HOUSE button lets you control all connected rooms as one
Understanding the room indicators
A boxed letter indicates the presently-selected room or rooms. The selected room is
affected by any source changes, or any change you make using the VOLUME, MUTE,
ON/OFF, or SLEEP buttons.
B An unboxed letter indicates a room listening to a shared source. A shared source is one
that is playing in the controlled room as well as in up to three additional rooms. If you
change the radio station, CD track, etc., of the shared source, the change affects all
rooms sharing this source. However, you cannot change sources for all affected rooms
at the same time. The VOLUME, MUTE, ON/OFF, and SLEEP buttons only affect the
boxed room(s).
An empty box appears for each connected room when you press the HOUSE button.
When you change the volume in the HOUSE mode, the numerical level appearing on the
display does not represent the actual volume level in all connected rooms. It only
represents the actual volume in rooms represented by a boxed letter.