Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this for my dad for Christmas and he loves it. I bought it for the ability to turn up just the voices, and my dad can hear his TV a lot better.

Love the sound bar, it is alittle different with sound when you get it home and connect it to the TV. But it still sounds great thou...

I returned a Samsung $169.99 sound bar and brought home the Polk audio Magnifi Max and it was well worth the money!!! Been a month and it's knocked things off the entertainment center with the bass cranked up lol, I love it! Unbelievable sound for just a sound bar. Many awesome features like adjustable bass (if you don't intend to knock things over), easily paired with any cable remote, etc. If you want something that will crank out some music, and not just be slightly better than your TV, this is the one!!! Highly recommended!

I'm a very big stickler for audio and this turned out to be so wonderful and i plan on buying the SR speakers that go with it!

Overall good quality sound for a medium size room (22'X16'). System offers some challenges to a novice installer - will need to do some homework to get it setup with the TV, gaming system, and cable. Remote came with weak batteries, need to have fresh batteries ready to go when you setup system. Sound much improved over the TV speakers.

Beat sound! We had a Bose crap out and replaced it with this one. I’m amazed at the sound quality

for the cost an the sound this is not a bad system we just have it in a small room so it fills that room with a lot of sound

I was looking for a good aound bar. A best buy agent recommended this sound bar. It sounds great. Very loud, clear, right amount of base.

For years I had a Vizio soundbar that I had gotten at Bestbuy. It finally went out and I wanted something a little better. I already have Polk Audio towers and subs for my 2 channel stereo. I immediately did a search of Polk Audio for Soundbars and I loved this simplicity of this one. It sounds fantastic and doesn't take up much room. The sub hides away real easy. Great simple Soundbar that won't break the bank. I got it on a sale event that Bestbuy had and it made the deal even sweeter.

Found the Polk sound bar sound superior to other bars I listened to. Feel like I made a great purchase and this item was easy to set up.

I am totally amazed at this product, I’m not technically inclined but I took this out of the box followed very simple instructions in the start up guide and set it up all by myself!! To me it is an amazing crystal clear Sound. Oh and one more thing when they say it is a cinematic experience they are not lying I would recommend this product and get it soon it’s $220 off right now have a great day everyone

Awesome system.....unbelievable sound for the price point. Good job Polk!

Wireless sub sounds great, just properly place it. I love the different levels you can choice for voice/bass setting

I bought one of those other four letter word brand bars. This package far exceeds the 500 bar and was a lot less! A great deal!

System was easy to setup and multiple HDMI was very useful. Also, ability to control system thru my set top very helpful.

I would expect for the price to have a unit sound amazing and last longer than 8 months. The sound is basic and mine kept disconnecting starting at the 2 week mark and finally took a dump yesterday. I called Polk Audio Customer Service who are the worst in the game and seem like they have better things to do. They gave me solutions, which none of them worked. I reset, powered on and off, updated Firmware and still this thing is trash. I WILL NEVER BUY POLK AUDIO AGAIN! Go with BOSE!

Best sounding option in its price range. Wish BB also carried the SR1 satellite speakers too.

There's good news for all you people out there who want to downsize from that bulky receiver and big speakers you use now for TV sound and music but don't want to give up the beefy sound you get from that system. Say hello to Polk's Mangifi Max, a powerful state-of-the-art soundbar that can not only come close to matching the sound quality of much larger home theater audio systems, but handle up to three input devices -- Blu-ray player, game system and streaming media box, for example. The Magnifi Max system consists of a 43-inch long soundbar, packed with seven speakers, and a rather large wireless 8-inch subwoofer that adds an amazing amount of low-frequency punch to all sound sources. The combination produces surprisingly full, clean and balanced sound but really shines on the Dolby Digital and DTS sound tracks attached to most movies. The full size soundbar connects to your TV via an HDMI out port , much like you would see on a regular home theater receiver. And just like most of those newer receivers, the MAX supports both ARC (audio return channel) and the latest 4K HDCP 2.2 and 4K HDR passthrough. So you are good to go with almost any new device you may have, including those using Chromecast. Support for that is built in. Which means you can use the soundbar just for audio from streaming music services like Spotify. (You will need to downlaod the Google Home app on your smartphone to set this all up) Bluetooth is also built in so you can stream audio that way too from your phone or other bluetooth audio device. Overall sound quality is quite good and can be shaped using pretty decent presets for movies, sports and music. Polk claims you can get simulated surruond sound with this setup, using their own patented SDA surround technology. Well sorta. It does provided a wider sound than stereo but, not surprsingly, lacks the definition of a real surround sound setup with discrete rear speakers. For those who are more demanding, Polk has you covered too. It sells an optional pair of wireless rear speakers that are compatible with the Mangnifi Max. Or you can buy the entire system, complete with rear speakers in the Magnifi Max SR setup. Polk seems to have though of everything with the Magnifi Max, including a unique "voice adjust" technology, which allows users to put more emphasis on the voice frequencies, which often drop out in some surround sound tracks. That's a welcome touch. There's also a "night mode" which dials back the bass and pumps up voice. Speaking of having everything covered: All the cables you will need are included, high speed HDMI, optical and even an auxiliary cable. Almost unheard of these days. Setup should be straightforward. The subwoofer and soundbar both require AC power connections (there is a substantial mid cord brick on the soundbar connection). Plug those in, run HDMI out from the soundbar to the TV and plug in any HDMI devices into the HDMI ports on the soundbar. (There are optical and aux ports too if you want to go that route for the sound.) Initially, the HDMI connection produced only silence and no picture on my LG TV. After some reserach I discovered I had to go through an obscure "SimpLink" setup first before the TV would recognize my Fire TV box running through the soundbar. This apparently is necessary on LG sets that support ARC and use external speakers. Once I sorted all that out, everything worked fine. One nice feature of the Max is that the IR receiver used in the soundbar is preprogrammed to work with most LG, Sony. Vizio and Samsung TV remotes. So your existing TV remote probably already controls the soundbar volume, muting, etc. But there is a dedicated remote as well, which you need for the specilized functions of the soundbar. My only real beef with the Max is the way it uses a row of tiny multicolor lights on both the front and the back of the soundbar to tell what the soundbar is doing. Its like learning a foreign language. The number and color of lights that are on at any particular moment and whether they are blinking or not tell you something, you just aren't likely to know what it is. The printed instruction manual (amazing but true) does explain it but you aren't like to remember it all. How about an LED readout in plain English? Or easily recognized logos that light up. Not too much to ask at this price point and in fact is common on soundbars cost a third as much as this one. But thats a minor quibble. All in all, this is a very good alternative to using a receiver and a bunch of big speakers. It may not be able to match the best big speaker systems out there but sounds pretty darn good and is worth serious consideration.

Great value if you bought it at the sale price. 3 HDMI inputs helps minimize stuff you have to connect to the tv. Sounds good.

Sounds amazing!!!easy to connect Bluetooth option. Comes with many connectors to connect to tv