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| Polk Audio SurroundBar 50 Surround System (Single Speaker, Titanium Silver) | 
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| Brand: Polk Audio
Category: CE
List Price: $1,099.95
Buy New: $449.99
You Save: $649.96 (59%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1733
Color: Titanium
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 20
Dimensions (in): 51 x 5.1 x 4.5
MPN: AM5047-A
Model: AM5047-A
UPC: 747192113520
EAN: 0747192113520
ASIN: B000XT3LDG
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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| Features:
| • | Polk Audio's patented SDA Surround Technology delivers a vivid sound field from a single 51" cabinet | | • | Dual Front Ports for superior clean, low distortion bass | | • | Simplified color-coded hookup means no more tangled wires to string around a room | | • | Dual cradle mounts give you on-shelf positioning options, and the easy to install wall-mount brackets allow for even greater placement flexibility | | • | Magnetically shielded with neodymium motor structures for safe placement on or near TVs |
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| Customer Reviews:
Great Surround Sound February 5, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I got the SurroundBar 50 last week after a few days of research. If you're researching for single speaker surround sound solutions that means you cannot run wires in your room thanks to the landlord or your wife (welcome to my world hehe).
You have couple of options when you're looking for a single speaker solution for your home theater project, and I was down to Yamaha and Polk Audio. Between the two I chose Polk Audio over Yamaha because (A) Yamaha requires a perfect 4 wall room so that sound can bounce back off the walls and create the surround sound effect, which I don't have (cathedral ceiling, staircase in the middle of the house so no back wall and side walls are far apart.) and (B) Yamaha costs way more. Don't get me wrong, Yamaha is awesome from what I read on Amazon and on other sites, but SurroundBar/SurroundBar 50 plus a decent subwoofer cost less than a Yamaha (which has an integrated subwoofer).
To pair with my SurroundBar 50, I bought a Velodyne Minivee 10 subwoofer. It was a bit of an overkill in my situation. But I wanted to spend a bit more and get a great sounding sub in case I wanted to build a better home theater one day. You can pair SurroundBar 50 with any Polk Audio sub out there. PSW111 is a good one for example. I have an Onkyo A/V Receiver and an Onkyo DVD player. The setup was fairly easy. SurroundBar 50 comes with the audio cables ready to be hooked up between the bar and your receiver. Everything is color coded so you can't really go wrong here. I hooked up an RCA audio cable between my receiver and my sub's line level inputs. Total setup = 1 hour or less.
After configuring my receiver to use the new bar and sub, I tested the surround sound with Matrix, Gladiator and Pitch Black DVDs. SurroundBar 50 produces the "enveloping sound" as promised. I still need some adjustments to do later but so far I'm pretty impressed with what I have. The SDA technology Polk Audio offers does a great job. This product will NOT give you a true 5.1 surround sound experience, so if you're an audiophile this is not for you. This product performs really well in creating the 5.1 effect. In Pitch Black you really hear those flying creatures moving around and in Matrix it's a pleasure hearing bullets flying by and ricocheting.
Overall I'm very impressed. I'm just happy I was able to setup a surround sound system under an hour and without running wires going through walls and furniture and carpet etc. Your experience may vary from mine so go to your local electronics store and give this a test. If your wife is like mine who is against speakers and wires around the room then SurroundBar might be the solution for you too. :)
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