The ES15 has a rear-firing bass port, but Polk also provides a plastic baffle if you need to push the speaker up against a wall. Brent Butterworth/NYT Wirecutter If you’re assembling a surround ...

Which is why [Peter Waldraff] decided to take a rather unconventional approach and hide his rear surround sound speakers in a pair of functioning table lamps. This not only looks better than ...

It comprises left, right and center front channels along with left and right channels toward the rear, plus subwoofer (see home theater speakers). Surround sound can also be "virtualized" in a ...

Instead, you can either install 'topper' speaker modules on top of your existing left/right speakers (one set, for a .2 configuration) and/or to your left/right front and rear/surround speakers (two ...

These rear speakers are wireless ... from a speaker system that looks so tidy relative to a typical separate surround set up. The HW-Q90R is not just about loudness, though.