Monitor 5jr vs RTI a1 or 3's

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lowstang
lowstang Posts: 4
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Any recommendations if I should upgrade or if it's an upgrade?
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
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    If you have the 5JR+ (has passive radiator), keep them and update the XO. I'm a little biased though.
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  • lowstang
    lowstang Posts: 4
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    A guy on audio karma said the RTI's are for home theatre and monitors are for music. Really liked the RTI's when I heard them. But again the M5jr sound great so why waste money
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,798
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    That guy is me. R stands for Reference, T stands for Theater, i stands for improved, A stands for the series.

    Have you upgraded the crossovers in your Monitor 5jr's?
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 7,976
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    I’ve owned both monitor 5s with peerless and monitor 5jrs with non-peerless (never checked the model #). The former destroy the RTis in every way, no contest. The latter I thought sounded pretty similar to rti6s that I also owned, albeit with the caveat that the 6s were brighter (that treble bump gets old real fast).

    I would keep what you have and upgrade the tweeter and the crossovers fwiw...
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  • lowstang
    lowstang Posts: 4
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    I haven't upgraded the crossovers. So far I'm looking at the tweeter and they are the all black and not the silver dome tweeters. Sorry I'm new to the Polk scene and a bit of a new comer. By upgrading the crossover, do you mean recap?
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
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    New caps and resistors. The tweets are sl2500 IF there are passive radiators, peerless tweets if there is a port.
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  • lowstang
    lowstang Posts: 4
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
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    Ok! You can TL mod them with RDO-198s if you want to go full bore.
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