POLK MAGNIFI MINI AX SOUND LOZENGE & SUBWOOFER
The MagniFi Mini AX is full of surprises. Polk has delivered a rather different soundbar and subwoofer solution — but no, we can’t even get that far because this is clearly not a soundbar, as such; there’s barely a whiff of the bar to its form. It’s more a lozenge. So this is a sound lozenge and subwoofer solution.
Equipment
The lozenge is remarkably small, just a ruler’s length at 34cm wide; we had thought it larger from pictures we had seen, and had wondered where we might put it to prevent it covering the bottom of our benched TV screen. But no, at 8cm high it was just perfect to fit below our resident 75-inch Samsung. Check that 8cm measurement against your own screen and you’ll know whether you can accommodate the ‘Mini’ bit of Polk’s pair.
The subwoofer may then be regarded as the bit doing the MagniFi-ing. This unit is much larger, with a large ‘racetrack’ driver firing downwards, so that its main acoustic output exits from bottom gaps in the raised sides, while it also ports to the back. This makes it versatile with regard to placement, relatively immune to furniture on either side of it, though you couldn’t easily put it in cabinetry. The subwoofer absolutely), the subwoofer is unlikely to be particularly discreet.
