Polk Audio Omni S6
By Polk Audio

MSRP
349.95

The Omni S6 is a premium, stereo-powered, wireless streaming speaker that expertly combines two of Polk’s flagship bookshelf speakers with a 100W amp to produce astonishingly loud, rich and room-filling sound.

The Omni S6 is a premium, stereo-powered, wireless streaming speaker that expertly combines two of Polk’s flagship bookshelf speakers with a 100W amp to produce astonishingly loud, rich and room-filling sound.  The Polk Omni S6 multi-room wireless (WiFi) speaker features premium materials and finishes. The acoustically inert curved woven cloth panel is available in black or white. Inspired to look like elegant furniture, the retro futuristic design covers an engineered lattice developed for sonic clarity. Focused on the details, Polk engineers designed a hidden molded rubber foot on the base to minimize vibration and movement caused by high-volume and deep bass response. The intuitive control surfaces and buttons are made of durable ABS and designed for years of use.

The Omni S6 is able to deliver the performance of a large pair of bookshelf speakers, but in the smaller format of a stereo-powered speaker due to expert configuration of all interior parts. The Omni S6 features a curved transducer array that produces vibrant, room-filling stereo sound by way of two 4-inch drivers, two 0.75-inch tweeters and a dedicated four-channel, 100-watt digital amplifier. Bass driver positioning produces deep bass and airy highs that paint the full sonic picture with most every track fed through it. By integrating DTS Play-Fi™ technology, the S6 supports a maximum resolution of 16/48, enabling users to hear high resolution and recording quality of their tracks compared with compressed MP3, capturing an improved sense of space and fullness. Polk also adds DSP modes to artificially boost bass and expand the soundstage.

Benefits to the Homeowner

The Omni S6 combines the simplicity of an “all-in-one speaker”, and the convenience of a Wi-Fi based music system. The new S6 wireless music system is a high performance stereo speaker. With the S6, you can stream all your music with no wires and no limits to any room in your home. Featuring a full-powered 4-channel onboard amplifier for effortless clarity and volume, plus its proprietary Acoustic Suspension Tuning and Full Complement Bass technology, it delivers bold, realistic deep bass response; a surprise in a unit of this size. S6 shrugs off being pigeonholed as a table-top box, and takes on the challenge of superior audio performance in an artful and elegantly designed enclosure.

Two key performance elements for the Omni S6 are the user experience and sound quality. In an app-dominated world, audio systems are not a pure hardware play; building intuitive and user-friendly software is equally important. Polk leverages DTS Play-Fi technology, providing users with instant access to popular music streaming services like Spotify Connect® and Pandora®, personal music libraries and Internet radio stations, which can be played anywhere in the home wirelessly from a phone, tablet or PC. Since a mobile device or PC serves as both the source and control device for a wireless streaming speaker, Polk made significant improvements to the Omni app. Available for free download in the Apple and Google Play store, the new app includes updates to usability, more control and new features, with special attention paid to the set up process, graphical user interface and the ability for the Omni S6 to support re-streaming. The redesigned app now delivers an easy-to-use wireless music experience from device to app, with a rich interface offering a simple, clean layout that is easy to understand and navigate.

Benefits to the Integrator

Integrators will find the quality and benefits in features useful to the homeowner as well. 

By taking its expertise in component speakers and combining the sound Polk is famous for into the format of a single stereo-powered speaker, Polk has designed a wireless streaming speaker that delivers impressive sound from a compact, single-housing. Polk’s two drivers, flanked by two tweeters and a four-channel, digital amplifier, are carefully situated in such a way that there is enough space between each driver, preventing stereo separation. Coupled with DTS Play-Fi technology the Omni S6’s music streaming is bulletproof with no dropouts or interruptions that are often common on Wi-Fi-based music systems. Omni S6 is a well-balanced speaker that offers rich detail and a decent amount of bass without sounding thumpy. It's able to play loudly without distorting and fills medium-to-large rooms. Polk added stereo pairing functionality to the speaker, so now users can set two S6’s as the left and right speaker for wider stereo imaging.

Finally, the Omni S6 is a versatile audio product that integrators and consumers alike can use as either a standalone speaker or connect with other products featured in Polk’s Wireless Music System, the Omni Collection. Thanks to the DTS Play-Fi open ecosystem, users can mix-and-match with other speakers that leverage this technology to create a whole-home, wireless audio experience.

More information here -
http://www.polkaudio.com/s6/d/1260