speaker selection help

dfledezma
dfledezma Posts: 148
edited January 2011 in Speakers
i have asked different questions about speakers in the forum before, but now I come back with more questions. The people in here have helped me a lot.

So since now I have a external amp, I want better speakers. Firstly I wanted monitor 70 or TSi500 for fronts and move my TSi300 to surround duty, but I´m tempted to get into the LSi line. But the towers are very expensive for me, even from polk ebay store. So I´m tempted to get a pair of LSi7 and eventually a LSiC.

My question is, would it be a stupid thing to have the small bookshelf LSi7 as mains, and the towers as surrounds? Or would it be better to stay in the monitor-TSi line. The low end will be covered by my velodyne sub.

Thanks
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  • kawizx9r
    kawizx9r Posts: 5,150
    edited January 2011
    Power those LSi7's with a nice high-current amp, and you'll swear those 7's were towers.

    Mine rocked the hell out of my place, with no sub too!
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  • leroyjr1
    leroyjr1 Posts: 8,785
    edited January 2011
    Music or HT?
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  • dfledezma
    dfledezma Posts: 148
    edited January 2011
    thanks.

    i think my adcom gfa 7605 will be enough, that´s why I´m encouraged to get into the LSi series, is not 200 wpc as many people in here recommend, but it puts a solid amount of 125 wpc at 8 ohms, so I believe will be fine, plus the subwofer.
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited January 2011
    Yep do the lsi

    As long as you have the 3 lsi up front sound stage who cares ,the rest cant wait

    I actually have a front sound stage of martin logan and my surrounding speakers are polk rti . surround sound speakers aint a big deal like some people think but it sounds best when they all got thhe same sonic signatures

    Your amp would sound best with lsi7 ,the 9's need alot more to make them bark
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  • dfledezma
    dfledezma Posts: 148
    edited January 2011
    leroyjr1 wrote: »
    Music or HT?

    both, but I really want something musical, as I listen to a lot of music
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,019
    edited January 2011
    Not interested in the LSI 9's ? Used run around 500, not too bad.
    HT SYSTEM-
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    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

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    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

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    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
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  • dfledezma
    dfledezma Posts: 148
    edited January 2011
    tonyb wrote: »
    Not interested in the LSI 9's ? Used run around 500, not too bad.

    If I can get a pair in decent condition would be great and definitely interested, since my budget is around 500.
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  • leroyjr1
    leroyjr1 Posts: 8,785
    edited January 2011
    leroyjr1 wrote: »
    Music or HT?
    dfledezma wrote: »
    both, but I really want something musical, as I listen to a lot of music

    I would give the SDA's a try. I like them a lot better for music than the LSI's.
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  • kawizx9r
    kawizx9r Posts: 5,150
    edited January 2011
    leroyjr1 wrote: »
    I would give the SDA's a try. I like them a lot better for music than the LSI's.

    Whole different animal but I would agree with Lee on that one.

    The LSi's were a bit too laid back for HT, but excelled in music (when powered properly). The SDA's did both HT and music very well and hold their own against more expensive speakers (especially when you've got all the mods done).

    I actually miss my SDA 1C's more than I miss my LSi's.
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    Polk SR5250
    Polk SR104


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  • dfledezma
    dfledezma Posts: 148
    edited January 2011
    The problem about SDA is that is difficult to ship them, most people just offer them as local pickup and unless I can find something in the south texas area would be a bit difficult. But honestly I really want to try the SDA.
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  • dfledezma
    dfledezma Posts: 148
    edited January 2011
    I found these on ebay, the location is relatively close to me, what do you think?

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Polk-Audio-SDA-1C-Speakers-/290493188069?pt=Speakers_Subwoofers&hash=item43a2be47e5#ht_500wt_1156
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