Polk Audio is a famous manufacturer of speakers that offers a wide variety of products for both home using and for cars. Beside speakers it also offers other audio devices such as amplifiers or FM tuners. The company was founded in 1972 and since then it continued to develop more and more. In 2006 it was bought by Directed Electronics and it has the headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Today we are going to take a look on the Polk Audio home page, which is : www.polkaudio.com.

By visiting the first category from the upper side of the screen (Products) you can see all the categories of speakers. And when passing the cursor over a category, there will be some other subcategories appearing. For example in the “Home Audio” button you will find: floorstanding speakers, bookshelf speakers, center channels, subwoofers, rears and surrounds, outdoor speakers, satellites and also SurroundBars.

In the “Car & Marine audio” you can find: amplifiers, speakers & systems and also car subwoofers. There are also many subcategories in the “In-wall and in-ceiling” category and below there are the outdoor speakers category, the gaming devices, the iPod & HD Radio systems and again SurroundBar.

In the other main categories from the site (Where to buy, Forums and Support) you can find the closest Polk Audio store to you, or learn more about international distributors, or buy directly from the site or from their official ebay store. And you can also discuss with others about the Polk Audio products on the company’s forum and also contact them or learn more about warranty, service, returns, tech support and others issues.

And now let’s discuss about a product made by this company, and we’ll choose a random one. Let’s take for example a center channel which is the main sound stage for voices and on-screen action in a home theater system. And we’ll choose the CS 20 speaker, from the TSi series.

As you can see it has quite a cool design and you can choose to buy it in brown and black as in the image, or all colored in black.  If you are not sure which color you like the most, you can think of the place where you will place this speaker, and see if it will match with your furniture or desk. It has dimensions of 7, 3/8" H x 23 " W x 10-3/4 " D
( (18.73 cm) H x (58.42 cm) W x (27.30 cm) D ).

You can use it as an individual speaker but it will be much better to combine it with a subwoofer and some surround speakers, and make a surround sound system. It will give almost all of the sound frequencies, but it will focus more on the voices so that’s why it is important to place it in front of you so that you can enjoy the best experiences when watching a movie. If you use it with your computer you can place it on the desk in front of you and if you use it with your TV you can place it on top of it.

But if you consider that it is too big to be placed on the TV, you can also place it underneath it, and thanks to the angled top, the sound will be pointed directly to you. You can combine it with any other components you want, but it will be best to combine this center channel with other products from the TSi series from Polk Audio. Not only that they will have almost the same design, but they will also sound really better together, because they are made to work with one another, and to complete each other.

Let’s discuss about one more product from the site, and we’ll choose the Atrium 65 SDI outdoor speakers. These kind of speakers are very useful when you want to take the party outside the house, and enjoy some music in your back yard. They are available in both black or white, so you can assort them with the environment. They feature a special technology that will allow you to use each speaker as an individual unit that will give all the sound, or you can use them as stereo speakers, and each speaker will give its specific sounds.

You can use this feature for example if you choose to have a speaker in the back yard, and the other one  in front of the house, near the pool. In this case you can use the “single left or right” feature, and each speaker will sound good and won’t have anything to do with the other one. And you can use the stereo feature when you have both of the speakers in the same area, pretty close to each other.

Of course the conditions outside the house are much different and more difficult compared to your room and that’s why these speakers are waterproof so they can resist even on tough weather conditions. Each speaker has dimensions of 13-1/2" H x 7-11/16" W x 9-5/16" D ( (34.29 cm) H x (19.53 cm) W x (23.65 cm) D ). So they are not that small, but they are not huge either, so you can be sure that your friends will spot them in the back yard, but they won’t spoil the environment. They are specially made to provide a rich sound, with both a deep bass and some clear high sounds. Enjoy them!