Surroundbar SDAs

BlueMDPicker

Have any of you insiders heard them?

I recall Matt being quoted here saying they had some new ideas in the works for SDA technology. Interesting.

dorokusai

Who's an insider? We should find them and....slay them - Lewis Black

Mike, where have you been hiding....don't feed me that "...well, the job got more involved, or they needed some help" BS, they drug you in with L O V E huh?

F1nut

Ditto and return my calls will ya!

-justin-

FYI

http://www.polkaudio.com/homeaudio/products/flatscreens/surroundbar/

PolkThug

:eek:

thehaens@cox.net

There are other manufactuers that have this type of set up, are people really going this route, I mean come on. I particularly like the speaker clutter , as well, can a HT Purist really reconcile the fact that he is getting a surround experience on one speaker? I guess when all is said and done, hearing is believing, but I can't see getting the "HT Experience" from a single speaker.

scott

madmax

My guess is you would get the same sound as a pair of SDA's sitting about 4' apart. That can be pretty convincing.
madmax

reeltrouble1

Yes, its good to see Mike post. I remember Polk Paul talking about this at SCFest. I may have an application for this thing as a bedroom thing.

RT1

AsSiMiLaTeD

Is this really going to sell for $1K?

amulford

We were talking about this in SC. I like it. I don't know it would be a whole family getting this effect, as the SDA sweet spot is rather defined.

PM - How much does 5-7 speakers cost?

RuSsMaN

HT Purist, that's a hoot!

AsSiMiLaTeD

Well I assembled my current setup for less than $1K

$300 for RTi70
$200 for CSi40
$100 for R15 surrounds

That's $600, throw in the $400 I paid for my SVS 16-46PC and I've got the full system including sub for $1K.

But then again, those are used prices, so we're comparing apples and oranges.

thehaens@cox.net

RuSsMaN wrote:

HT Purist, that's a hoot!

We are in a digital age RuSs, you can't always live on tubes alone......

Categorically speaking of course....

Lets See

1. 2 Ch. Sol. State Purist
2. 2 Ch. Tube Purist
3. HT Purist

RuSsMaN

Is this one of those 'which one doesn't belong' games, like they have on Sesame Street?

I pick #3. I mean, come on. Enthusiast, sure. Purist? What purity does one try to reach with HT? 'That REALLY sounded like C4 exploding, that's incredible - on my rig, it sounds like dynamite'.

"Digital" doesn't mean no tubes, and the end of the string of processors, flim flams, and do-da's, the output is analog.

Cheers,
Russ

thehaens@cox.net

I actually was just blundering along, I have never actually seen anyone claiming to be a purist of any sort, especially a HT Purist. Enthusiast was a better adj. I should of used in my previous post.......

I need a new turntable.........and pre/amp.........so I can elliminate the flim flam

PolkThug

I'm an HT Purist to the best of my budget.

An "HT Purist" tries to match the audio and video output to the source, with the source most often being a DVD.

madmax

An HT purist pays the neighborhood kids to spill drinks all over the couch, throw **** and talk during the quiet parts. Oh yea, they usually put a tall dummy in a seat in front to look around it throughout the movie.
madmax

BlueMDPicker

Mark,

Work (pronounced with the same inflection as Maynard G. Krebbs) is the only alibi I can offer. Too many trips to too many places in the last 10 weeks, too many hours working and worrying about a quite expensive project mangled by slackers, and too little time to spend with my wife and kids.

I have attempted to pop in here from time to time and catch up on reading. MAN! You folks are prolific!!

Word to the wise: retire early, change your phone number and email address, have all your investment income and pension checks forwarded to a Cayman Islands account, and don't answer the door (unless a friend is expected by.) Failing in these actions, they'll hunt you down and wring the last drop of life's blood out of you (when the slackers fumble on the goal line.)

Jesse,

My sincere apologies. I'll catch up with you soon.

Ted,

Keep pickin' and grinnin'!

Chuck,

Pass the popcorn, sit down, and shut up.

Russ,

Well, just keep being Russ. You give a lot of us a lot of grins.

Back to herding cats. Hmmmm... where did I put that cattle prod?

Mike

F1nut

Mike,

No problem, I figured that may be the case.

Willow

http://miragespeakers.com/unitheater.shtml

RuSsMaN

I saw that Mirage job at Hillcrest HiFi the other day, looks like a whole new speaker market has opened up. I kind of dig the passive radiator setup.

Cheers,
Russ

Willow

The only thing with mirage is they say for 6.1 you need to buy 2 of them.

PS .Russ cables will be in the mail tomorrow.

bknauss

I think the Mirage is closer to a L/C/R in one enclosure as opposed to the Surroundbar being L/C/R/rears in one enclosure. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.

Although this product doesn't speak to me per se, the better half is very excited about the product. Big WAF! Its also nice not having to worry about running wires for yet another 5.1 setup. One set of wires from the receiver to the SurroundBar and you're done.

The word around Polk HQ is that its a very convincing surround sound. Sure, its not going to replace 5 speakers, but it does an excellent job of coming so close for such a compact size. If the very early prototypes are anything like the final result (I haven't listened to the final result, but heard some very early prototypes), its definitely a cool product.

Emlyn

bknauss wrote:

I think the Mirage is closer to a L/C/R in one enclosure as opposed to the Surroundbar being L/C/R/rears in one enclosure. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.

In addition, a second UNI-Theater mounted on the rear wall can create an astounding 6.1 home theater system with only two speakers and a subwoofer.

You are correct. The omnipolar drivers from Mirage don't do a surround sound effect, just wider dispersion of sound than normal with cone drivers. Completely different than SDA technology.

TrappedUnder Ice

soundbar goes down to a whoppin 100hz! Wheres the BASS? :0)

MacLeod

TrappedUnder Ice wrote:

soundbar goes down to a whoppin 100hz! Wheres the BASS? :0)

From your sub.

I think this is a good idea. There are a lot of people that arent really enthusiasts about HT and rather have a plug and play setup. This allows that. I think itll do well.