Design, on-screen menu, radio remote, goes loud! No evidence of clipping at 100% volume.

Poor audio - no mid range. Tiring to listen to. Have had some instances of freezing, requiring a re-boot. Expensive

Great design and build quality with discrete speakers that are child friendly. DVD quality is good (not great) however CD audio is poor. Non-existent mid range, poor imaging, not for audiophiles. (OK for background music)

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I am on my third Lifestyle 35 dvd/cd player in eight months time. DVD movies just freeze, and the machine has to be powered completely off, wait a few minutes and power back up. My dvd collection is a whopping 17 disc's which I play maybe one a week. This failure rate is unacceptable. Bose support has not responded to my problem and the owner of the Bose outlet has not returned any calls.

Sounds great! Save you a lot of electric bill. I still love it.

I think the only problem is with the dvd.

BoseSL 35: I have owned three different LS 35 for less than 45 days. The first system I had for 30 days, and it froze on me during the movies for 3 times. For each time it froze or locked like a computer, I had to shut off the power supply and reboot the system back. Next, I exchanged for a new one, and it froze on me once after watching my first movie. I had to reboot it again, so I went back and exchanged for another one. I tried to contact the Bose technical support, but I didn't have time to wait for at least 20-30 minutes each time. I hope this third one going to be ok.

takes up minimal space. customer service. RF remote

cant compare other speaker systems at the store to Bose products. Very expensive. no midrange. no specs.

Bose Lifestyle 35 is a good product, sounds good, plays all types of DVD and CD's including MP3's. I wanted to know more about its wattage, ohms and certain specs on the product. none was to be found even on the manual. I could not compare this system to others so I had to bring it home. Most speaker companies have their products in a room to compare. Yamaha, Denon, Marantz, Energy Speakers, etc...so I became somewhat curious as to why wouldnt Bose place their systems to compete head to head with the others. I took this system back, bought better speakers with my old receiver(not bose). really thats all I needed.