Beginning in Q1 2011, Polk will ship the new SurroundBar CHT500 Component Home Theater, a 7-channel, single-speaker, two-piece surround system that’s less than 1 ½” inches deep. It’s housed in a 49” black extruded aluminum enclosure. According to Polk, the SurroundBar 500CHT uses an external SDA Control Module, which includes all of the system’s crossover components as well as Polk’s proprietary SDA (Stereo Dimension Array) surround technologies that combine digital signal processing and acoustical geometry to create, well, a lot of hype that someone in marketing wrote.

Since it doesn’t ship until 2011, it’s not on the Polk website yet.