By Sara Paige, MBA Class of 2010

One of the projects my APEX team has been working on is market launch ideas for Polk Audio’s new speaker, the HitMaster.  Polk Audio, in sympathy to our pro bono work, offered to send us samples so that we could try it out.  A couple of weeks ago, I got the call that my new HitMaster was here. Although I don’t really have Guitar Hero or Rock Band (which the speaker is really for), I was pretty excited, because the audio at La Casa de Sara is pretty poor. Plus, after speaking with audiophiles over the last module, I was ready to upgrade a little.

My thoughts are that it is really easy to carry, not too heavy, but with some great sound. The inputs on the back are pretty cool too, very simple for those people that want to play a game/ use a speaker but don’t really know much about hooking them up. I actually like instruction manuals, but then, I’m a little weird…

Since I do not have a game console, I hooked it up to my TV, where it adds some great sound when I have time to watch it, or play my iPod when I am studying.