Rock Outside...without rocks
It seems like your only choices for outside speakers are bland white boxes, rocks, and tree stumps. Now I'm not dendrophobic, but even the best of these don't really look like tree stumps.
With the Sat30 and Sub10, Polk has made some speakers designed to blend a little more naturally, if less "organically."
Your first question might be, what maniac reviews outdoor speakers in December? Well, it's 66 degrees outside, which sure beats the temp in the summer, which can feel like double that. Summer is when we retreat inside.
The Sat30 is about the size of a small light fixture, which is not by accident. One of the installation options is to hang the speakers from the patio roof as if they are light fixtures. Inside is a 3.5-inch "Dynamic Balance Composite Cone" midrange. In front of that is a 0.75-inch "Dynamic Balance Polyurethane Tweeter," a layout reminiscent of car speakers. The frequency response of the satellites is a claimed 100 Hz to 22 kHz. These sats are "weatherproof." Polk says their design was tested down to -40 F and up to 185 F. It's never reached that hot here in the summer, as far as I know.
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