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seagiant wrote: »

Hi,
A question...
Does Polk Audio, know you Guys are running your own "Dog and Pony Show" over here, and...
Running people off, and giving Polk Audio, a bad name???
Just wondering how this works?

I will be happy to answer this one... most of the "dog and pony" stuff to which you so eloquently make reference to, is simply good-natured joking around wrapped within a tinge of sarcasm. No insult or harm is inferred or intended. Most of the advice given here is solid or better and based on decades of individual and hundreds of years combined experience. Jesse (F1nut) has more than a thousand years of experience just by himself, though most of us believe him to be far older than that.

My point is to simply let the sarcasm roll off your back and roll with the flow. Be slow to take offense, quick to learn, and if you choose to forge your own path, that is ok too. The advice offered was hard earned over decades, but it is up to you to decide its worth and what to do with it.

Okay, I actually did see those earlier this week. The dreadnought really caught my eye. I never did the math that they were Raife's
I guess he really is not as dedicated to audio as he was.
Hope all's okay and he's just downsizing.

nooshinjohn wrote: »

ken brydson wrote: »

Dude, switch to decaf...

He could also lay off the crack pipe, but that would be no fun.

Ahh and here's the welcome wagon.

Anybody who is enthusiastic about Polk audio and audio equipment is ok in my book.

seagiant wrote: »

Hi,
A question...
Does Polk Audio, know you Guys are running your own "Dog and Pony Show" over here, and...
Running people off, and giving Polk Audio, a bad name???
Just wondering how this works?

Polk Audio is... well... between gigs at the moment.
We'll see what happens under Harman/Samsung.
One concern will be legacy product support, so, there's that.

It is safe to say that there's a substantial concentration of experts on the legacy (Matt Polk-era) hardware still on this forum, so, there's that, too.
We're actually pretty friendly, care deeply about a broad range of Polk-branded products (right up to the present, if there is a present for the brand), and rarely bite or scratch, but we do have our limits.

You have to understand that component technology wasn't as advanced back then. Also, any of the higher quality components that were available were not available in the quantity required for large scale production. Lastly, the bean counters always win.

So, while the bone stock speakers sounded good, properly modded ones sound great.