SDA Names

Vette C6.r
Vette C6.r Posts: 1,560
edited September 2010 in Vintage Speakers
Is there any significance or relative history to the naming of the SDA SRS models?
1.2
2.3
3.1
Do they have any meaning or are they just random model numbers???

I have too often wondered this.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited September 2010
    1, 2, 3 pecking order by model (left of the decimal point) and .1, .2 version number (right of the decimal point).

    A lower model number was designed to be a bigger/better speaker, and a higher version number an improvment.
    VTL ST50 w/mods / RCA6L6GC / TlfnknECC801S
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 w/mods
    TT Conrad Johnson Sonographe SG3 Oak / Sumiko LMT / Grado Woodbody Platinum / Sumiko PIB2 / The Clamp
    Musical Fidelity A1 CDPro/ Bada DD-22 Tube CDP / Conrad Johnson SD-22 CDP
    Tuners w/mods Kenwood KT5020 / Fisher KM60
    MF x-DAC V8, HAInfo NG27
    Herbies Ti-9 / Vibrapods / MIT Shotgun AC1 IEC's / MIT Shotgun 2 IC's / MIT Shotgun 2 Speaker Cables
    PS Audio Cryo / PowerPort Premium Outlets / Exact Power EP15A Conditioner
    Walnut SDA 2B TL /Oak SDA SRS II TL (Sonicaps/Mills/Cardas/Custom SDA ICs / Dynamat Extreme / Larry's Rings/ FSB-2 Spikes
    NAD SS rigs w/mods
    GIK panels
  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited September 2010
  • Vette C6.r
    Vette C6.r Posts: 1,560
    edited September 2010
    I get the pecking order. Just wasn't sure after the decimal point.

    Not sure I follow you Sport. After the deciaml point is the version number ??
  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited September 2010
    Kind of like windows in the early days. 3.0 then 3.1. The higher the number after the Decimal the better the version.
  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,217
    edited September 2010
    Joe08867 wrote: »
    Kind of like windows in the early days. 3.0 then 3.1. The higher the number after the Decimal the better the version.

    Yeah, I don't think so as there never was an SDA 3 or 3.0 or 1.0 or 1.1 or 2.0 or 2.1 or 2.2

    I don't see any correlation between the model numbers and any sort of pecking order when it comes to the decimal point.

    Here's the model number pecking order, now maybe a numerologist can make sense of it, but I can't

    SDA 1
    SDA 2
    SDA 1A
    SDA 2A
    SDA 1B
    SDA SRS 2
    SDA 2B
    SDA CRS and CRS+ (Compact Reference System)
    SDA 1C
    SDA SRS
    SDA SRS 1.2 and 1.2TL
    SDA SRS 2.3 and 2.3 TL
    SDA SRS 3.1TL no non-TL model

    So you tell me how that is a linear pecking order that makes any sort of sense to someone unfamiliar with SDA's?

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,337
    edited September 2010
    It's more like a rev change to me..
    Polk Audio SDA 2.3tl Fully Hot Rodded. 😎

    SVS SB16 X2

    Cary SLP-05/Ultimate Upgrade.
    Cary SA-500.1 ES Amps
    Cary DMS 800PV Network
    OPPO UDP 205/ModWright Modification
    VPI Scout TT / Dynavector 20x2
    Jolida JD9 Fully Modified

    VPI MW-1 Cyclone RCM

    MIT Shotgun 3 cables throughout / Except TT, and PC’s
  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,217
    edited September 2010
    It's more like a rev change to me..

    But then why not 1.1 or 2.1 instead of 1.2 and 2.3? I'm sure there is an internal reason. It's just not that apparent to the consumer. Just like the new LSi series has a different model designation and it's an internal thing as to why and what the letters mean.

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
  • Vette C6.r
    Vette C6.r Posts: 1,560
    edited September 2010
    heiney9 wrote: »
    I don't see any correlation between the model numbers and any sort of pecking order when it comes to the decimal point.

    H9

    Me neither. I guess we'll never know.

    Thanks for the input guys.
  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited September 2010
    If six turn out to be nine.......I don't mind
  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,337
    edited September 2010
    The only thing that matters is they KICK ****...;)
    Polk Audio SDA 2.3tl Fully Hot Rodded. 😎

    SVS SB16 X2

    Cary SLP-05/Ultimate Upgrade.
    Cary SA-500.1 ES Amps
    Cary DMS 800PV Network
    OPPO UDP 205/ModWright Modification
    VPI Scout TT / Dynavector 20x2
    Jolida JD9 Fully Modified

    VPI MW-1 Cyclone RCM

    MIT Shotgun 3 cables throughout / Except TT, and PC’s
  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited September 2010
    All I would ask is that you you go to your Compendium or DarqueKnights thread at . . .

    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55888

    and spend a while opening and studying the linked Adobe Acrobat .pdf files.

    Then tell me, for instance, how drawing Number P0161001 corresponds to P0161002 and what P0162003 or P0163001 mean?

    Oh, Really . . . ? Imagine that!

    Now, can somebody edit out all of the **** between my answer in post # 2 and this post?

    P.S. Note the OP asked about 1.2, 2.3, 3.1
    VTL ST50 w/mods / RCA6L6GC / TlfnknECC801S
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 w/mods
    TT Conrad Johnson Sonographe SG3 Oak / Sumiko LMT / Grado Woodbody Platinum / Sumiko PIB2 / The Clamp
    Musical Fidelity A1 CDPro/ Bada DD-22 Tube CDP / Conrad Johnson SD-22 CDP
    Tuners w/mods Kenwood KT5020 / Fisher KM60
    MF x-DAC V8, HAInfo NG27
    Herbies Ti-9 / Vibrapods / MIT Shotgun AC1 IEC's / MIT Shotgun 2 IC's / MIT Shotgun 2 Speaker Cables
    PS Audio Cryo / PowerPort Premium Outlets / Exact Power EP15A Conditioner
    Walnut SDA 2B TL /Oak SDA SRS II TL (Sonicaps/Mills/Cardas/Custom SDA ICs / Dynamat Extreme / Larry's Rings/ FSB-2 Spikes
    NAD SS rigs w/mods
    GIK panels