We always think how confuse to install several speakers to enjoy surround sound for home theater, home karaoke or other home entertainment. Surround sound need more than five speakers. Those placed as two front speakers, two real speakers and one center speaker. But today we can place single speaker for all position needed and for any room you have. This is a solution for save spacing.

It?s like a magic. With one bar speaker we can enjoy surround sound taste. The speaker use a proprietary technology called Spatial Array to fool your ear and brain into believing surround sound is coming from five separate speakers. What it doesn’t do is rely on your walls to bounce sound around the room, like some sound bars do. This makes sound bars great for any room, no matter how irregularly shaped. The company’s Balanced Dual Surround System (BDSS) technology puts two surrounds in each speaker, instead of one, to suppress cone resonance and produce higher output. Finally, they’ve corrected problems caused by putting the tweeter in front of the driver with housing and venting for the tweeters.

You know there is a lot of speaker goodness packed into this unit just by touching its aircraft-grade extruded aluminum finish. It must be used in conjunction with a receiver. If you have just purchased a new HDTV and Blu-ray player, you need a receiver to decode those new soundtracks – Dolby True HD and DTS-HD Master Audio – anyway, right? This speaker targeted at those who are really interested in getting the most from their home theater systems.

We love this speaker’s performance almost as much as we enjoyed the SSA-50′s. On Blu-rays, such as Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, the SSA-42 passes the surround test with flying colors. The soundtrack is riddled with directional effects, and the various sounds of the jungle come at you from all sides. We especially like the explosively fun “Move It, Move It” scene in chapter 3. While the soundtrack obviously was assembled in the studio, it sounds incredibly lifelike, especially the dialogue, which is a credit to the SSA-42. Especially in a smaller room and with a subwoofer to supplement bass, we’re impressed with this sound bar’s overall performance.