The new Bose® Mobile Headsets are here and work with many of your favorite music and smart phones, including the Apple iPhone®. Below you’ll find a table showing which adapter is needed (some don’t need one). Keep reading for the entire compatibility chart and links to the product pages so you can get your own pair!
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When entertaining outdoors, what you really want is smooth, even sound throughout the entire listening area. To achieve this goal, Niles makes two basic types of weatherproof
outdoor loudspeakers: conventional stereo and stereo input (SI). Conventional stereo is the two-speaker, the left and right setup that we all know and love. Not as well known is stereo input. These loudspeakers provide blended stereo sound from a single enclosure. When designing outdoor systems, it really helps to understand the advantages of each and what all the options are. Why settle for so-so when you can have a system that really rocks?
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The weather’s warming up, the
BBQ grills are coming out, and everyone’s starting to think about outdoor entertaining. It’s time to turn to Your Electronic Warehouse for everything you need to create the perfect outdoor sound system. This article will give you some tips on
outdoor speaker placement including proper speaker positioning, adding multiple
speakers to cover larger areas and the placement of outdoor
volume controls.
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“Which one should I buy?” Trying to sort through the onslaught of technical jargon and conflicting advice usually ends with the customer making a rash decision driven by a desire to end the headaches and waiting instead of accurate and helpful information. We’ve already discussed the differences between resolutions (eg:
720p vs. 1080p ) and the importance of investing in HD technology (eg:
digital transition in February 2009 ), but little has been said about screen size, viewing distance, or which panel technology is right for particular conditions and uses. Below you will find information to help you determine if you should buy a
DLP ,
plasma , or
LCD ; how big of a screen you should get; what the different technologies are best at doing; and how and where to position yourself/TV to maximize your HD experience.
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Have you ever needed to run an audio or video cable hundreds of feet but couldn’t find a cable long enough to do it? An audio or video balun is a very easy way to complete a job that requires extremely long runs of video or audio cable from room to room using a CAT 5 cable.
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Bose® Lifestyle® Home Theater Systems are best known for having excellent sound quality while blending seamlessly into any home decor. Bose products are well known for being extremely user friendly and simple to hook-up. What most people don’t know however, is how a Bose Lifestyle® System can be used as the media hub for a multi-room or whole house audio system.
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Now that you know what components and connections to use for your High Definition System you need to know how to properly
connect everything to your home theater system . This is a very crucial part of the process because a wrong connection can cause you a problem that you may mistake as a flaw in the component itself.
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Remember the days when the only connections available on TV’s were stereo audio and composite video (the red, white and yellow inputs) and it only took about a minute to hook up components? Well those days are over and things have gotten a little more complex. For those of you who have never owned a high def or
flat panel TV , you might be a little intimidated by the back panel the first time you look at it.
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The Bose Sounddock works as an iPhoneTM speaker dock to listen to the music on your iPhone.
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Due to the unique headphone connection on the Apple iPhone, current Bose headphones will require a special adapter from Apple when used with the iPhone.
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