Brandon Fuller

Sounds Good

Time for the last coat of paint on Monday so it was time to install the speakers! The speakers have a piece of trim that has to be painted so the safest way to paint it is to install the speakers. They come with a plastic paint shield that you put on them to cover up the actual face of the speakers. But before I put that on — you know what I had to do right? Crank it up! I took my older Sony receiver down to the basement and hooked up each pair of the speakers at a time — front, side, and rears. The fronts sounded really good. The sounds was pretty full — even without the 300 watt subwoofer!

This is the right side surround. Fits nicely into the wall and looks pretty discrete.

Even the ceiling speakers, which are the rear surrounds, sounded great by themselves. The driver has a 15 degree offset in it so I had to decide how to position it. I had no guide so I decided to aim the driver towards the front-center speaker. Actually, I angled all of the rotatable components toward one single point in the middle of the seating area. I think that is the right thing to do.

So far I love these Polk speakers. One other setting that I put into action was the “cut” functionality. This is a switch that you can flip on each speaker when you have really reflective walls — which is defintely the case in the basement right now.