Bose releases new 'Ultra' Dolby Atmos soundbar and wireless speaker range, with a serious subwoofer option and this lineup has Sonos right in its crosshairs

Date:
Tue, 05 May 2026 15:13:55 +0000

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Bose's Lifestyle Collection features a new flagship soundbar and multi-room compatibility including with other firms' speakers

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Bose launches premium soundbar, smart speaker and wireless sub The Ultra Lifestyle Soundbar is the new Bose flagship at $1,099 / 999 / AU$1,800 The Lifestyle Ultra Speaker has Dolby Atmos for $299 / 299 / AU$549 Bose's new Lifestyle Collection is likely to cause some frowny faces at Sonos HQ: it's a set of three premium pieces of 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 Soundbar and the Bose Lifestyle Ultra Subwoofer. And in addition to working with each other, they also promise to work in groups with speakers from other manufacturers too.

Bose says that its app delivers "one of the simplest setup experiences in
home audio", and if the collection sounds as good as it looks then Bose may well have a home audio hit on their hands. Article continues below You may like Sony's new Dolby Atmos soundbar beats the Sonos Arc Ultra in 3 key areas LG's new Dolby Atmos soundar is a major threat to Sonos, in two key ways There's a new super-cheap, super-small Dolby Atmos surround soundbar in town (Image credit: Bose) Bose Lifestyle Collection: key features, pricing and availability The Bose Ultra Lifestyle Speaker is a cylindrical speaker with three drivers, two of which fire outwards and one of which fires upwards.
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 opening to deliver low-end that's clean and punchy.

It also has Bose's TrueSpatial spatial audio processing, which is platform-agnostic, meaning it'll create spatial sound from any source. You
can run it solo, in a stereo pair, in a multi-room setup, or as part of a surround-sound system with the Ultra Lifestyle Soundbar and Subwoofer. (Image credit: Bose) The Soundbar is Bose's new flagship and comes with a fresh new design and an entirely new acoustic architecture; it's the first major soundbar redesign that Bose has developed in more than a decade.

There are six full-range drivers four facing forwards and two pointing up
for height channels plus a center tweeter and two of Bose's PhaseGuide drivers that are design to provide extra virtual width for an immersive Atmos experience. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up
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PhaseGuide is a system that widens the soundstage by using strategically placed transducers and waveguides to make audio appear to be coming from places where there aren't any speakers.

There's also TrueSpatial processing for anything that isn't in Dolby Atmos, SpeechClarity to enhance dialog, CleanBass and QuietPort for deep, controlled bass and the newly renamed CustomTune room calibration system (previously known as ADAPTiQ), which uses your phone as the room calibration mic what do you know, that's just like Sonos!

Bose says that the system delivers the lowest frequencies of any Bose
soundbar to date just from the soundbar alone, while also improving the highs and delivering better audio element separation. What to read next Denons new wireless speakers with Dolby Atmos take aim at Sonos and WiiM rivals LG Sound Suite H7 review: a great Dolby Atmos Sonos rival with a unique trick LG Sound Suite Immersive Suite 7 Pro review: Atmos FlexConnect has landed

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. The three speakers all have Wi-Fi connectivity and support Google Cast, Apple AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect, and they can be grouped via Apple AirPlay or Google Home. There's also Bluetooth to stream directly from devices such as your phone and other audio sources.

The Bose app promises to walk you through the whole setup process whether that's a single speaker or a full surround system, and it then enables you to control the volume, source, equalization, surround and height levels. There's also built-in Alexa+ for voice control.

The Bose Lifestyle Ultra Speaker has an official price of $299 / 299 /
AU$549; the Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar is $1,099 / 999 / AU$1,800; and the Bose Lifestyle Ultra Subwoofer is $899 / 899 / AU$1,300. All three are available to pre-order now, and will be fully released on May 15th 2026. Thinking of buying a new TV? Try our TV size and model finder! You tell it
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