Polk AudioT30 Home Theater Center Channel Speaker - Vocal Clarity, Deep Bass Response, Dolby and DTS, Single, Black

Polk audio has been around for a long long time, and continues to deliver quality audio equipment!I needed bookshelf speaker to replace my small tower speakers because my wife didn't like seeing the towers anymore. So it was important for me to get as much sound as possible from the bookshelf speaker. I read a lot of professional reviews, but most only reviewed higher end speakers in the $300+ range. I found a couple of reviews that mentioned these Polk bookshelf speakers as only decent!I'm so glad that I've found purchased these speakers for under $120 pair. The sound quality is amazing. The vocals and mids come thru very clear! My old towers can't even come close to the vocal clarity! The Bass is excellent for such a small speaker. The bass is nearly the equivalent of my old tower speakers! It is unbelievable the amount of sound that comes out of these small speakers! The Power they can take is incredible, they don't distort when I crank up the wattage from my Yamaha 100 watt receiver!Build quality is very good, and should last a long time. Easy to setup, you can put the provided rubber feet on, or hang on your wall. Easy to connect to your receiver with the screw down posts, but wish they were brass instead of plastic.I dare you to find a better sounding bookshelf speaker for the price!

I just wanted a cheap pair of speakers for bench testing vintage hi-fi amps and receivers, but not absolute junk. These seemed to fit the bill at $70 pair, shipped, as it would cost as much or more to repair the blown woofer on my prior test speakers.Well, these little speakers are the real deal. They have five-way speaker binding posts so you can plug in banana jacks or go old school with stripped wire. The grilles are removable, which is usually not seen at this price point. While I'm not usually a fan of black vinyl cabinets, these are executed tastefully and I have no problems with the looks at all. They have mounting holes on the backs so you can easily hang them on a wall.Let's cut to the chase! These sound fantastic! These are speakers you can listen to all day long, unlike some of the fancy stuff out there that has a long list of specs but doesn't quite make it in real life. You don't need a lot of power to play them, although I found that the better the amplification, the better they sounded.1. Bass is very, very good for not only a small speaker but a speaker in this price category. It took several hours before they really started singing--most brand-new speakers need a break-in period--but I cannot get over the bass response. Now, if you play them side by side with a subwoofer-equipped system, they're not going to be able to compete; however, I cannot stop listening to them and I have a system with a subwoofer.2. Overall sound is superb. I can hear plenty of details in my favorite music that I thought only expensive speakers could capture. There's a good sound stage, highs are not harsh or fatiguing, midrange sounds great to me. Am I an audiophile? Probably not, since I will never spend more than a mortgage payment on a piece of hi-fi gear and I use 12AWG Monoprice speaker cables, but I love music and I listen to it every day.3. A comparison: I saved up for a pair of Wharfedale Dentons. These are not budget speakers. Originally retailing for $1,000 pr., they can often be had for $500 or less and are stunning, well-regarded speakers. The Polk Audio T15s sounder better. Yep. I'm sure a squad of hitmen from Stereophile (and Wharfedale) are prepping their weapons as I write this, but the Dentons cannot handle bass like the Polks do. Are the Dentons drop dead gorgeous in their veneered, bomb-proof cabinets? Yes! Do the Dentons sound good? Yes, again, but I cannot listen to the Dentons very long before I put something else in their place. They simply cannot deal with bass in a pleasing manner and yes, they've done as much breaking in as they're ever going to do. Please understand that I'm not knocking the Dentons; they are so well-made I want to cry, but the Polks are more enjoyable to listen to.4. So, what's the deal? What's the catch? I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop, so let's get it over with...There's no catch that I can see so far, except that these are mass-produced, black vinyl speakers. They are not exotic and I doubt Stereophile is going to review them any time soon. They aren't going to fill a concert hall with thundering bass because they're small bookshelf speakers. Some audio snob types are not going to even bother to listen to a pair because they don't cost enough. Well, their loss is our gain, my friends, because if I had known about these speakers before buying the damned Dentons (and some other fancy speakers) I could have saved $400.5. Not enough bass for you? No problem. For $130 shipped, buy the Polk Audio PSW10 subwoofer. I am a card-carrying bass freak (every single amp and receiver I own has the bass knob maxed out and I usually have loudness engaged as well) and this thing is a damned marvel. It was easy to set up and yes, it will work with old amps and receivers. You can adjust how much or how little bass it puts out, and for once in my life I DO NOT have the bass turned all the way up--that's how powerful this thing is. You can set it on standby mode, where it's "asleep" until it senses a music signal, then it turns on and does it's thing. That said, the T15's sound so nice on their own I'd hold off on the sub and judge for yourself.I have heard many different speakers over the years, from Bose 901s to Martin Logan Prefaces to Polk Audio LSi9's, and these are absolutely the best value I've ever heard in speakers. They are cheap enough that you can buy two pairs and have a speaker in every corner of the room. Bass is handled very well and they sound good enough to be the main speakers in a two-channel hi-fi system. Look at how many people have given these speakers two thumbs up! I cannot stress how wonderful it is that Polk Audio has provided such an amazing, low-cost speaker to the general public. I highly recommend these speakers. Just remember to let them play for a few hours and the better the amplification, the better they'll sound.

I just received the speakers and wired them into my new amplifier. Although I’ve only used them a couple of days, the sound quality is great and the amount of space that it takes on the bookshelf is a perfect.I would recommend these speakers to anyone looking for cost-effective yet high quality sound.

I liked the price, initially, and then recalled I was pairing them with a Polk subwoofer. I just set them up and they are pleasant, but probably won't please the "golden ears" looking for that amazing sound. I did like the ease of set up, but needed to turn them upside down to insert the speaker wires properly. For my uses, these are recommended: my uses are mixed rock, pop, jazz & some classical as part of a "non-primary" system, just an area where I like to have music as wanted.