11/04/2012

Subwoofer emits an annoying hum just sitting powered on

It sounds fine I guess but from all the raving in the other 5 star reviews I was expecting cinema quality sound or something, As an amateur non-expert I'll just list what I like and don't like:-

Likes-

- Small. Easy to find places for the speakers in our little bedroom.
- Sounds better than the sound from the TV

Dislikes-

- Subwoofer emits an annoying hum just sitting powered on, yes before any cables are attached so you can't blame the cables or the receiver.
- Should not be advertised as a "5.1 home theater system" Does not come with speaker wires, subwoofer cable or a receiver, it should be advertised as "5.1 speakers"
- The holes on the back of the speakers are so puny and small it was a nightmare trying to fit 14 gauge speaker wire into them. I can't imagine how horrible this would be if you had long wire runs that required 12 gauge or lower.
- One of the spring clips came out, with the spring flying out when I was attempting to insert a speaker wire. I did NOT put excess pressure on it, in fact I was quite gentle and pressed it down reasonably like all the other clips. Could not get it to sit back in without it popping back out. Currently have the speaker wire loosly sitting in the connection because of this. Cheap and Nasty.

You get what you pay for I guess. In hindsight if I knew about the tiny speaker wire hole size I would have shopped around.These speakers sound absolutely amazing I am a little surprised for the price I used to have the Definitive Technology ProCinema 600 System and paid way more for it like in the 800 dollar range I have found it very hard to find good clear speakers that depict crisp instrumentation and vocal a lot of speakers sound kind of muffled and don't really articulate between sound these speakers do just that and the sub is great it does not over power the bass to fill a void of bad sounding speakers the sub does what subs are meant to do and that's fill the low end and give you a fuller sound I have used so many different speaker sets and usually the sub is just obnoxious not clear and rattles your floor its kind of like being next to a car where the bass is rattling the trunk and ground and over powering the music. I would highly recommend these Polk's they made a fan out of me I would use Polk for everything in the future when something is good why change?

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