astroglide's home theater: what i own, what i would buy today

[BretWeir]

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I really want to get some sort of wall mounted speakers for our tv, and have heard great things about the yamaha line.

only issue is it's a little more than I want to spend for speakers that won't get used that often (~3 times/month or so). mainly I want to get rid of the damn receiver and wires surrounding my tv, especially since we got a new puppy that likes to chew on them [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

any recommendations for similar products that are a bit less? I would google but there doesn't seem to be a standard name for these types of things.

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I have the Polk SurroundBar, which sounds great and looks great mounted under my TV. Wire clutter is pretty minimal -- just one cable running from the speaker to the AV receiver (no separate power cable).

The grey version is currently on sale at Amazon for $485, about half of list price. (The black version is a couple hundred more.)

One word of caution, which I imagine applies to the Yamaha setups as well as the Polk: if you get one of these, you'll also need to spring for an AV receiver and a stand-alone subwoofer, so factor a few hundred bucks more into your bottom line.