{"id":164447,"date":"2023-07-05T17:47:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=164447"},"modified":"2023-10-18T05:56:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T04:56:26","slug":"bose-recalls-over-a-million-subwoofers-due-to-fire-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/speakers\/bose-recalls-over-a-million-subwoofers-due-to-fire-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Bose recalls over a million subwoofers due to fire risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bose\u00a0has announced a recall of more than a million older subwoofers used in branded home theater systems because they pose a potential fire hazard\u00a0.\u00a0The firm has received 21 complaints from around the world about bass modules igniting or melting, including fires caused by them.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, these units were sold between January 1994 and April 2007 through the official Bose.com website and retailers such as Best Buy, Circuit City, and Sear&#8217;s.\u00a0The global recall affects subwoofers from the Bose\u00a0Acoustimass\u00a0,\u00a0Lifestyle\u00a0and\u00a0Companion\u00a0series of home theater kits\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of subwoofers affected by the recall can be found on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission\u00a0<i>page<\/i>\u00a0.\u00a0Or you can check your subwoofer on the official Bose website.\u00a0If you find out that your subwoofer is subject to a recall campaign, the manufacturer recommends that you stop using it immediately.\u00a0You can contact Bose for a free repair or a 40% discount to replace the kit with a modern model.<\/p>\n<p>Of the one million subwoofers sold, Bose\u00a0estimates\u00a0that about 884,000 were in the US, 98,000 in Canada and 18,000 in Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bose\u00a0has announced a recall of more than a million older subwoofers used in branded home theater systems because they pose a potential fire hazard\u00a0.\u00a0The firm has received 21\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":164448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[646],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-164447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}