Polk Audio SurroundBar

As many of you are probably aware, there are two flavors of "bar" speakers - Sound and Surround. Sound bars are designed simply to provide a better two (or sometimes three) channel experience. Think of them as upgrades to the speakers that came with...

One thing that surround bars have against them is, well, the lack of speakers. While the idea is to surround the listener with the musical or movie content to create a believable 3D image, it's hard to do without the rear speakers. There are two main...

Speakers have made a slow progression from large tosmall to tiny to invisible. The Polk Audio SurroundBAR is in the lattercategory. The SurroundBAR is a single (almost) speaker solution that places onespeaker up front and simulates the rest of the...

When a multi-speaker home theater system does not fit into the decor, running wires is not practical, or the spouse says no, the Polk Audio SurroundBAR comes to the rescue with a quality product that's about as close to a single speaker solution as one...

Thanks to plasma TVs, everyone is convinced that skinny and flat are where it's at when it comes to home theater—and those now-out-of-work robotic assembly lines that used to crank out CRTs by the boatload haven't been the only ones affected by...

A way to turn the blue light on and off would be proper.

I was hoping for more. More surround, more highs. Great replacement for TV speakers, but don't expect a great 5.1 experience, or even a good one. Primary use is listening to TV with the occasional Blu-ray and fairly rare critical music listening thrown...

A better home theater experience would cost much more. The Polk Audio Surroundbar 4000 is well engineered, and it is very easy to set up for the average user.