Little & large
Polk MagniFi Mini AX soundbar + subwoofer
see p31
The MagniFi Mini AX is full of surprises. Polk has delivered a rather different soundbar and subwoofer solution — although it’s hard to call it a bar, really, when it sits like a little humpy at the centre of your TV. A TV speaker? A lozenge, perhaps. So here’s an unusual 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 height against your own screen and you’ll know whether you can accommodate the first ‘Mini’ bit of Polk’s pairing here.
The subwoofer may be regarded as the bit doing the MagniFi-ing. This is much larger, with a large oval 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 dwarfs the sound lozenge,), the subwoofer is unlikely to be particularly discreet.
