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Anyone have experience with Polk's soundbars?

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I'm looking into those as an alternative to Bose. 1/3-1/5 the cost of the Bose.

 

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I would be using for my bedroom and I also consider my living room small. Maybe 15x20

 

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Chris Senior Enthusiast

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Well its not for 5.1. It runs about $450. You run a fiber cable from the TV to the back and has a wireless sub

 

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Poke around on Craigslist..you can put together a help of a system for $500. A good receiver will run a couple hundred bucks (HDMI and all), a sub for $50-100, and a couple hundred should buy some good bookshelves, a center, and a couple small surrounds.

 

A system like this should blow a soundbar out of the water any day, provided you research the specific model numbers of the units you pick up.

Chris Senior Enthusiast

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My thing is with my living room design and my entertainment center I'll have wires everywhere

 

This shows the small width of my living room and my entertainment center. You can see my door and the end of the room 2013-02-15_14-34-30_151_zpse47c9466.jpg

 

 

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kstruckcountry Senior Enthusiast

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I have the surround sound speakers and sub, I just wanted something to put by the tv for a little better midrange quality. Oh and I need the receiver too.

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For that style room a soundbar would work for getting better sound but will by no means replace a surround sound setup.

I have a Onkyo 7.1 surround sound in myroom, and absolutely love it. It was 4 hdmi's and a crap load of other inputs and outputs. It is a 1200 watt system, and i would put it up against sokme of the cheaper end bose systems without a question. Best part is, it was only $400 ish back in the day when i got it from circuit city.

Chris Senior Enthusiast

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Looking into the SurroundBar 6000IHT at first. Maybe 2 of them. Don't see much difference in the 6000 and 9000 system

 

The 9000 is 10 inches longer. But almost twice the cost

 

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I bought it. It doesn't out perform my Sony wired setup. I will most likely take it back. I can't get it to cooperate with my TV via fiber optic cable, I don't have the fine adjustments like the Sony did (by fine I mean treble and bass). I can just adjust bar volume and sub volume. Not to mention my Sony had HDMI pass through and 3 HDMI video inputs that passed through to one output to the TV. So if I used the Sony system and the TV's inputs with optical or RCA out I had a total of 6 HDMI ports. Sound quality isn't as great. For me it was $400 poorly spent.

 

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