Purchasing a packaged kit of five voice-matched surround sound satellite speakers (or a single 5-channel Polk Audio SurroundBar speaker) makes a lot of sense if you already own a decent powered subwoofer, or you've done some sub comparison shopping and are leaning towards a specific model. All of the speakers featured in the Amazon carousel above are wall-mountable.

Each of these 5.0-channel speaker solutions can supply sound for five of the six channels needed to set up a 5.1 surround sound speaker system. (The .1 stands for the Low Frequency Effects subwoofer channel, which is responsible for reproducing the deepest notes for music listening and all the intense, explosive, deep bass audio special effects for digital surround sound movies.)