About Polk Audio
Polk Audio is an award-winning designer and manufacturer of high performance audio products and the largest audio
brand of Directed Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ, DEIX). Founded in 1972 by three Johns Hopkins University graduates,
Polk Audio holds over 55 patents for advances in audio design and technology. Polk's products include loudspeakers
and electronic components for home, auto and marine applications, the first satellite radio home component tuner,
the world's first audiophile-grade active IP-addressable loudspeaker, the first THX Ultra2 Certified in-ceiling
loudspeaker, and I-Sonic-the first entertainment system to include HD radio, XM Connect & Play capability and a
DVD player. Polk products are available through authorized specialist consumer electronics retailers worldwide.
"Times change, audio fashions come and go, but Polk Audio just keeps on producing great speakers.""
Cnet.com
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"Matthew Polk started out as an audiophile and remains one today. He is one of the few CEOs that I have met who
can hear, and who really cares about how his product sounds, not just how it sells."
Widescreen Review
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We're Always Here For You
We believe that a program of basic educational support for our customers excites and inspires the enjoyment of
all aspects of audio and video entertainment. So we work hard to provide you with the information you'll need
to get the most out of today's AV technology, whether it's in your home, on your desk, or in your car. We're here
to help you.
With this in mind, we've built this website to be a dynamic clearinghouse of consumer electronics knowledge for you.
Here, you can access product manuals, delve into a toolbox of AV information and explore our free newspaper archives
(You may subscribe to get your own copy by mail or contact us directly).
Finally, if you own Polk speakers, you can enter Club Polk, and tap into our Club Polk Forums where you will find a
community of Polk Audio enthusiasts who are there to help answer you're A/V questions, share your passion for music
and movies and supply a regular dose of humor and mayhem. They're a fun bunch.
Just A Bunch Of Perfectly Normal Audiophiles
Walk the halls of Polk Audio's Baltimore headquarters, and you'll meet sales people, engineers and
technicians who also happen to be musicians, audiophiles, home theater mavens, tube-equipment fanatics and
rare vinyl LP collectors. There are folks here who plug in their instruments and throw down some self-penned
tunes during meeting breaks, and women here who could teach courses on the physics of transducers. Everyone here
brings something exciting to his or her job, whether it's retail floor sales experience, a physics degree, knowledge
of carpentry, a little black book of press contacts or some special marketing know-how. For all of us at Polk Audio,
designing audio equipment is not just a job, it's a passion. We wouldn't have it any other way.
"Polk has remained faithful to their original goal of building
true high-performance speakers that regular people can afford.
They have eschewed gimmicks and sonic exaggerations in favor of
natural sound and accurate reproduction and customers have remained
loyal to the brand which is one of the few still in business under
the original management."
--Widescreen Review, Fall/Winter 2000
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