- Bose launches premium soundbar, smart speaker and wireless subwoofer
- The Ultra Lifestyle soundbar is Bose’s new flagship at $1,099 / £999 / AU$1,800
- Lifestyle Ultra speaker has Dolby Atmos for $299 / £299 / AU$549
Bose’s new Lifestyle collection is likely to cause some grimaces at Sonos HQ: it’s a set of three pieces of premium audio gear designed for every room in your home, offering excellent flexibility including multi-room audio and promising a typically luxurious Bose audio experience.
The three speakers are the Bose Lifestyle Ultra speaker, the Bose Lifestyle Ultra sound bar, and the Bose Lifestyle Ultra subwoofer. And in addition to working among themselves, they also promise to work in groups with speakers from other manufacturers.
Bose says its app offers “one of the simplest setup experiences in home audio,” and if the collection sounds as good as it looks, Bose may have a home audio hit on its hands.
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Bose Lifestyle Collection: Key Features, Pricing and Availability
The Bose Ultra Lifestyle speaker is a cylindrical speaker with three drivers, two of which fire outward and one of which fire upward. Bose says that’s enough to create room-filling spatial audio from a single speaker, and it has Bose’s CleanBass system and QuietPort acoustic aperture to deliver clean, punchy bass.
It also has Bose’s TrueSpatial spatial audio processing, which is platform independent, meaning it will create spatial sound from any source. You can run it alone, in a stereo pair, in a multi-room setup, or as part of a surround sound system with the Ultra Lifestyle sound bar and subwoofer.
The sound bar is Bose’s new flagship and comes with a new design and completely new acoustic architecture; It’s the first major soundbar redesign Bose has developed in more than a decade.
There are six full-range drivers (four facing forward and two pointing upward for height channels), plus a center tweeter and two Bose PhaseGuide drivers that are designed to provide additional virtual width for an immersive Atmos experience.
PhaseGuide is a system that widens the soundstage by using strategically placed transducers and waveguides to make audio appear to come from places where there are no speakers.
There’s also TrueSpatial processing for anything not in Dolby Atmos, SpeechClarity for enhanced dialogue, CleanBass and QuietPort for deep, controlled bass, and the newly renamed CustomTune room calibration system (previously known as ADAPTiQ), which uses your phone as a room calibration microphone. Know? That’s like Sonos!
Bose says the system delivers the lowest frequencies of any Bose sound bar to date from the sound bar alone, while also improving treble and offering better separation of audio elements.
However, for those who want even deeper bass, the third speaker is the powerful Lifestyle Subwoofer, which once again comes with CleanBass and QuietPort. It’s built around a 10.5-inch driver and connects wirelessly to the soundbar.
All three speakers have Wi-Fi connectivity and are compatible with Google Cast, Apple AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect, and can be grouped via Apple AirPlay or Google Home. There’s also Bluetooth for streaming directly from devices like your phone and other audio sources.
The Bose app promises to guide you through the entire setup process, whether it’s a single speaker or a full surround system, and then lets you control volume, source, EQ, surround, and height levels. There is also Alexa+ integrated for voice control.
The Bose Lifestyle Ultra speaker is officially priced at $299 / £299 / AU$549; the Bose Lifestyle Ultra soundbar costs $1,099 / £999 / AU$1,800; and the Bose Lifestyle Ultra subwoofer costs $899 / £899 / AU$1,300. All three are available to pre-order now and will be fully launched on May 15, 2026.
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