Polk Audio Surroundbar

 Polk Audio has come up a with an great new item called the SurroundBar. It consists of Five channels, One speaker and Zero clutter. A concise easy to install package that eliminates the mess of cables and speakers scattered around your home theatre. The SurroundBar costs about $950, but you probably will what to add a subwoofer as it is a little light in the bass range. The SurroundBar has an extruded aluminum cabinet and weighs about 25 pounds.  It measures 42.5 inches wide, 4.5 inches high, and about 5 inches deep. The finish is available in black or titanium with matching cloth grilles. It also includes a wall mounting bracket and a table stand.

The Polk Audio system includes a 25 foot, five channel flat cable to hook up the SurroundBar to your TV or AV system. The speaker connectors are well labeled and are color coded.  Hooking them up to the speaker is a piece of cake.

The SurroundBar has three connection schemes that can enhance your sound system.  In the basic mode you coonect all of the surround speakers to the SurroundBar's surround channels.  In th emodified mode you can connect up only the SurroundBar's left, center, and right channels and use supplemtal speakers on the rear walls.  For advanced systems, such a s with a 6.1 or 7.1 channel A/V receiver, you connect the rear channels to one or two extra speakers and hook up the other 5 channels to the SurroundBar as you normally would.  Polk Audio has put a lot of flexibility into a small sysem.