Hey, I'm JR, training manager here at Crutchfield, and this is the Polk Audio MagniFi MAX soundbar
with wireless surrounds. It's actually a complete surround sound system that includes a sound bar,
wireless surrounds, and a powered subwoofer. Let's talk about the sound bar first. First
off, it looks pretty great whether it's sitting on the same surface as your tv or whether you're
wall-mounting it below your TV. It does come with wall-mounting brackets, and because it's so slim
if it is sitting on the same surface as your TV, it's not so tall so as to block your TV's
screen or the infrared eye. Sound bar has 180 watts of built-in power that's driving seven
speakers, and those seven speakers combine to give you pretty good surround sound from just the bar
itself thanks to the built-in Dolby Digital and DTS decoding, along with Polk's SDA technology or
"Stereo Dimensional Array." Basically it uses that along with digital signal processing to give you
full 5.1 sound from just the bar itself. You can also add the wireless surrounds to get even better
surround sound. The sound bar also has Polk's VoiceAdjust to ensure that dialogue from the screen
is loud and clear. You can even adjust the volume of the center channel independently of the other
speakers to make sure you can hear whatever's being said in your movie or TV show. This system
also comes with Polk's wireless subwoofer. There's a 160-watt amplifier powering an 8-inch down-
firing woofer in a ported enclosure. Plenty of bass. The system is going to sound full and rich,
and it is wireless. It wirelessly connects to the bar itself, so you don't have to run any
cables from the bar near your TV to wherever it is you're going to put your subwoofer.
The wireless surrounds have a 30-watt amplifier built in and a 3-inch, full-range driver.
You can put those on the back of your room, in the left and the right side of your room
to give you an even better, more enveloping surround sound. Each piece of this system, the
sound bar, the subwoofer, and each surround speaker do need to be plugged into the wall for power,
so you might want to get some surge protectors to plug them into to keep them safe.
To get sound into the sound bar, you have several different ways to do that. The most likely way
you'll do it is with the three HDMI inputs, and the one HDMI output that goes to your TV. That's enough
inputs for most of your video sources, right, your cable box or satellite, a gaming console, a Blu-ray
player, and that fourth connection goes straight to your TV so that you can use Audio Return Channel
to get the sound from whatever you're watching on TV, maybe your over-the-air antenna or streaming
apps piped from the TV, back down over that HDMI cable into the HDMI connection on the back of
the sound bar. And those HDMI connections are fully loaded, they are capable of dealing with HDCP 2.2.
They use Audio Return Channel, they use HDMI CEC or Consumer Electronics Control
to allow the remote for your TV to work and turn the sound bar on. They kind of work together thanks
to the magic of that technology, as well as it will pass HDR, so if you're watching a movie that has
high dynamic range, if it's HDR10 or Dolby Vision, the sound bar will pass that along to your TV
so you're not losing any picture quality by running your video sources through the sound bar.
In addition to the HDMI connections there is an optical digital input and an analog input, and it
even comes with those cables. It comes with one HDMI cable, one optical, and one auxiliary cable.
You can use whichever one makes the most sense with your TV. In addition to the sound for your
TV, it's also a great music solution. It has built-in Wi-Fi so that you can stream music
from your phone using Chromecast or Spotify Connect, you can really play just about anything
that's on your phone through this system. It also allows you to play music from an
iTunes library on a computer or from a network attached storage drive on the same Wi-Fi network
as this system. The system, in addition to working with your TV's remote, also comes with its own
robust remote, a lot of really handy buttons on here for changing the sound for movies and sports
modes, music mode, you can also adjust the bass and the voice and how loud each one of those are
in relation to each other, so you can make sure dialogue is nice and clear. There's even a night
mode button so that you can make sure you're not waking the kids up while watching a movie at night.
You know when that dinosaur explodes in the movie, it's very loud, but you don't want it to wake the
kids. That's night mode. I was looking over our customer reviews on this package, and customers
are tapping into the idea that this is an easy to set up system, so you're not gonna spend a lot
of time getting it all set up. It all hooks up and works pretty seamlessly. It averages actually four-
and-a-half out of five stars on our reviews. A lot of the reviews, customers have uploaded pictures of
this system in their living room, so you can get an idea of how the sound bar looks right below your
TV, that sort of thing. So definitely check out the reviews for this product on crutchfield.com.
So this is the Polk Audio MagniFi MAX. It's a sound bar with wireless surrounds and a
wireless sub. If you're looking for something like this for your living room, get in touch
with us here at Crutchfield, we can help you out. Go to crutchfield.com/contact to talk live with
one of our advisors over the phone or in chat. Also you can post your comments here on YouTube,
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