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11/04/2012

When ordering this Polk HTS

I bought this set up for myself after my wife gave me a new Sony receiver for my birthday. The speakers sound great and movies are a pleasure to watch with the upgrade from may last home theater system. Im certainly no "audiophile", but I do like my movies and music to sound good and I did do a fair amount of research. These seemed to be a solid set of speakers for $250. Im not sure I would even be able to tell the difference between these and a set of $1000 Bose or Klipsch speakers. I had previously owned a home-theater-in-a-box from Sony. The difference in weight and cabinet design alone is significant, plus they look so much better in person than in the photos. I find the sound in Blurays to be crystal clear and enveloping.
Mine came with one of the spring clips on a satellite broken right out of the box. I still managed to use it while Amazon got right on sending me a replacement. I shipped the broken set back upon my receipt of the new set. I have been very happy with the set up since, although I do wonder how well those cheap looking mounts will hold up once I have them on the wall.
If you are an "audiophile", Im not sure why you are looking at a set of $250 speakers anyway. If you arent, trust that these speakers will likely be better than whatever you have going right now.

When ordering this Polk HTS, I reminded myself not to expect something unrealistic. At this price point, I think a realistic expectation is that you will get a 5.1 sound system which will adequately fill a small to medium sized room with quite accurate soud rendition, but it will be at least one level below a Boston Acoustics, Klipsch or Bose sound system.

The product arrived on time and in good condition. I hooked it up to a Yamaha HTR-5840 Receiver with the intent of reproducing good quality sound from my Samsung Blue-ray DVD and Samsung HD 4650 TV (I had spent almost as much as the Polk HTS buying monstercable speaker wires and a few optics cables to supplement the quality of sound supply from the TV and blu-ray players). Polk supplies very little in the way of installation manuals / user guides with their product, but I had no trouble getting everything connected using the most current user guide from Yamaha for their receiver.

The sound quality is as expected, and a little better. You will not be instantly transported to the Royal Albert Hall when listening to this system, but the sound from bass (actually pretty good sub-woofer) all the way thrugh mid-range and into the high trebles is fine. With two satellite speakers positioned behind the listeners, the sound for the most current movies (whether live transmission or blu ray) is great and a substantial improvement over the standard sound you can expect even from a high-end TV's standard speakers. Crank the volume up, and there is very little distortion (unless of course you try to max it out).

All in all, for a few hundred bucks you get a very nice sound system that is adequate for every-day movie and TV viewing. Streaming Pandora also presented very well.

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