Bose® 738031-1310 Owner's Manual

Using the System

The system has a touch-sensitive control pad on the front, center 

area of the top panel.
Momentarily placing your hand on the touch pad can turn the 

system on or off, snooze a sounding alarm, and reset it for the next 

day (page 16).

Note:  Pressing 

, 

, or 

 on the remote control turns  

on the system to the selected source.

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Source indicators: CD, FM, AM, or AUX 

Play mode

Clock

Alarm status

Source or system-related information

•  Press 

 on the remote control 

or

•  Touch the touch pad.

 

The last source you were listening to is active.

Alternatively: 
Press any source button  

 

to activate that source.  

Note:  Selecting AUX does not turn on a device connected to AUX 

IN (such as your media player). Be sure to turn the device 

on first.

After 24 hours of no button presses, the system  switches to 

standby (off). If the 18-minute system standby timer (page 21) is 

enabled, the system automatically switches to standby if no audio 

is played and no buttons are pressed for 18 minutes.
If the system is connected to your network when switching to 

standby, the connection is maintained while in standby.

Press and hold 

 or

 to adjust the volume level.

VOLUME - 0 (silent) to 99 (loud) appears on the display to 

indicate the level.

Press to mute the system. 
Press again, or press 

to unmute. 

While muted, you can press

 to lower the volume before  

unmuting the system.

When the system is off, the volume can only be adjusted between 
10 and 75.

Press 

SLEEP to set the system to shut off automatically after 

a selected period of time.

•  After pressing 

SLEEP, SLEEP - 30 MIN (or your last setting) 

 appears on the display and the sleep timer begins counting 

down. If the system is off, press 

SLEEP to turn it on and  

immediately set the sleep time. The last source selected starts 

playing as the sleep timer counts down.

•  While the 

SLEEP setting is displayed, press SLEEP again to  

set the sleep timer to 10-90 minutes (in 10-minute increments)  

or OFF. 

Note:  If more than 10 seconds elapses between button presses, 

the system automatically exits the sleep timer setup mode.

•  To review the remaining sleep time, press 

SLEEP.

•  To cancel the sleep timer, press and release 

SLEEP until  

SLEEP - OFF appears on the display.