Polk SurroundBar 360˚ DVD Theater

**ImRizzo** · 03-28-2009, 11:48 AM

By Mark Fleischmann • January, 2009
Price: $1,200

At A Glance: DVD-processor console contains all amplification • Single cable connection • Doesn’t accept HD video or lossless audio from Blu-ray
Do You Believe in Magic?

Bar-type speaker systems like the Polk SurroundBar 360˚ are a logical response to the flat-paneling of modern homes. The form factor of a single horizontal speaker makes sense to use below the bottom edge of a flat screen (or perched atop a rear projector). But surround, by its nature, likes to spread itself around the room. And it does so for the same reason that pictures like to be big—to engulf the senses and take the viewer/listener to another place. But how can a single bar speaker spread itself around when it’s confined to a single enclosure? That’s the question Matthew Polk set out to answer with this product.

The SurroundBar 360˚—let’s make it easy on ourselves and call it the 360—answers that question in a fascinating way. Offering even the most basic details about it challenges my powers of description. For example, how do you describe a system that takes a 5.1-channel input, processes it, outputs it through four amplifier channels and eight drivers, and produces something that resembles 5.1-channel surround?

Part of the answer is that the question is incomplete. It omits the final stage of the process—the psychoacoustic reaction that occurs when the system’s output strikes the ears, infiltrates the brain, and stirs our primordial perceptions and emotions.

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Da Rizz.....

CC · 03-30-2009, 11:29 AM

I've been looking at this and the Yamaha for quite some time. I may nail the Polk.

**ImRizzo** · 03-30-2009, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by CC

I've been looking at this and the Yamaha for quite some time. I may nail the Polk.

If the room your intending on using it in is not right your wasting your money it'll sound like crap

CC · 03-31-2009, 05:26 AM

Originally Posted by ImRizzo

If the room your intending on using it in is not right your wasting your money it'll sound like crap

Right meaning what?

**ImRizzo** · 03-31-2009, 06:47 AM

Originally Posted by CC

Right meaning what?

Meaning basicly your walls in the room should be similar in shape these speakers work on a reflective projection basis if there are any openong or alcoves on either adjoining walls it will distort the projected image, if there is a door way or archway this will create "a hole" in the sound wall. do you get what I'm trying to explain? I will try to find a diagram explaining this.

CC · 03-31-2009, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by ImRizzo

Meaning basicly your walls in the room should be similar in shape these speakers work on a reflective projection basis if there are any openong or alcoves on either adjoining walls it will distort the projected image, if there is a door way or archway this will create "a hole" in the sound wall. do you get what I'm trying to explain? I will try to find a diagram explaining this.

Well then I'm screwed! Because my living room is wide open with 1 wall. It's really bad for reflective purposes.