Polk Audio LSiM 707 Flagship Floorstanding Speakers First Look

squeeb
squeeb Posts: 426
edited January 2011 in The Clubhouse
Didn't see this posted yet ... Audioholics reviewed (sort of) the new LSiMs.

http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/speakers/floorstanding/polk-audio-lsim-fl
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,391
    edited January 2011
    And on Audioholics of all places.:eek: Simply brilliant.:rolleyes:
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  • squeeb
    squeeb Posts: 426
    edited January 2011
    Pic from article ...
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  • gsxr141
    gsxr141 Posts: 143
    edited January 2011
    yes please.
    50" samsung dlp
    receiver... pioneer elite vsx72txv
    front... polk tsi400's
    rear surrounds... polk tsi100's
    center... polk csi3
    subs... psw150..... 2 of them.
    surrounds.....polk owm3's
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  • WagnerRC
    WagnerRC Posts: 2,155
    edited January 2011
    nice looking speakers.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited January 2011
    That review sucked. Reviewer is an idiot too.

    How am I supposed to take it seriously when he openly mocks patented technology in such a childish manner?
    While they love to call normal design options silly things like "Polk's Dynamic Sonic Engine enclosure ," and "Polk's PowerPort®" (if you don't plug it in, it's a bit misleading to call it "power" anything), we'll forgive them. There marketing department has to do something other than Sudoku right? We might also take issue with the idea that the flat woofers on the towers are sub drivers rather than woofers but again, marketing department.

    Here you go, Tom Andry, a description of the Power Port tech.

    http://www.polkaudio.com/education/tech_article.php?id=30
    http://www.polkaudio.com/education/tech_article.php?id=31

    And info on the Dynamic Sonic Engine Enclosure
    http://www.polkaudio.com/partners/press.php?id=96

    which you pretty much copied word for word in your "review".
    The core of the LSiM line will be Polk's proprietary 3.25" Extended Liner Motion (ELM) midrange mounted above a 1" Advance Isotropic ring radiator tweeter. Polk claims that combining these transducers in a single optimized array produces an uncommonly wide and uniform dispersion pattern.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,391
    edited January 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    That review sucked. Reviewer is an idiot too.

    How am I supposed to take it seriously when he openly mocks patented technology in such a childish manner?

    Agreed AGAIN!:biggrin::wink:


    Since when is anything from Audioholics taken seriously here. If their mods approve of allowing such crap on their forum, they can keep it.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,190
    edited January 2011
    Tom has a pod cast where he basically speaks his mind. It's kinda refreshing to listen to and sometimes annoying.

    The review was lack luster but that doesn't change the fact I'm so eagerly waiting to get in front of a pair of LSIM anything.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited January 2011
    I think I want a pair. What is the pricing on the towers with matching center?
    Shoot the jumper.....................BALLIN.............!!!!!

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  • jinjuku
    jinjuku Posts: 1,523
    edited January 2011
    squeeb wrote: »
    Didn't see this posted yet ... Audioholics reviewed (sort of) the new LSiMs.

    http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/speakers/floorstanding/polk-audio-lsim-fl

    It's an overview...

    The last sentence of the write up:

    We can't wait to get our hands on a pair to try them out.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited January 2011
    The three way bookshelf is quite good looking...
    Jake
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited January 2011
    Good point. He hasn't actually heard them yet. Whereas some of us have heard the prototypes at PolkFest? So the word is still out and what we heard was not the final product...but it was already sounding pretty nice!

    cnh
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited January 2011
    She's pretty enough, but can she sing?:rolleyes:
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2011
    jinjuku wrote: »
    It's an overview...

    The last sentence of the write up:

    We can't wait to get our hands on a pair to try them out.

    Haven't you already ruined that option for your entire forum, based on your conduct here and butting heads with realtime MOD's? I'd never do that on your forum as I'm also a member. I don't factor into much since I've dropped off MOD status, just an observation.

    I would have loved to send your crew a pair but will most likely send them elsewhere.

    The Audioholics forum usually hates Polk anyway.

    Mark
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,391
    edited January 2011
    Ooohhhhh SNAP!!!!:biggrin:tongue::biggrin:


    Damn Doro, GRAND SLAM!!! I think you ripped the casing of that ball.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited January 2011
    The oblong shapes on the front, are those actually drivers, or wth are those?
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2011
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    The oblong shapes on the front, are those actually drivers, or wth are those?

    Are you joking?
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited January 2011
    Either that or he's drinking something REALLY good! And if so, could you send some my way?

    cnh
    Currently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!

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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited January 2011
    Mark - you da'man!
    DKG999
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  • jinjuku
    jinjuku Posts: 1,523
    edited January 2011
    dorokusai wrote: »
    Haven't you already ruined that option for your entire forum, based on your conduct here and butting heads with realtime MOD's? I'd never do that on your forum as I'm also a member. I don't factor into much since I've dropped off MOD status, just an observation.

    I would have loved to send your crew a pair but will most likely send them elsewhere.

    The Audioholics forum usually hates Polk anyway.

    Mark

    Show me all the threads at AH where Polk bashing goes on the way Emotiva does here.

    If people get bent out of shape because I would recommend something like a Crown XLS 402d (which I happen to like better than my HCA 1000A) that's on them. It's just an opinion.

    This thread is a perfect example of people going off half cocked with basically zero grasp of the facts: It was an overview. Take 60 seconds and you would see that.

    Send AH a review sample or don't. The world still turns.

    You being a former Mod here I would love an answer to CFrizz's question about brand bashing being against the rules here and either the tacit or active participation of mods in the bashing. I have the text of her full response if you would like.
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  • mewisemagic
    mewisemagic Posts: 194
    edited January 2011
    kinda def tech looking
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  • newrival
    newrival Posts: 2,017
    edited January 2011
    I had never seen those oblong drivers before either, until about a year ago on some KEF's.

    I seriously can't wait to get some time on these. I hope the Abt Electronics will have a pair set up in the main room.
    design is where science and art break even.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited January 2011
    Sherardp wrote: »
    I think I want a pair. What is the pricing on the towers with matching center?

    Towers are $2K each. I don't know the center price.
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  • gelinas
    gelinas Posts: 226
    edited January 2011
    They look quite nice:

    polk-execs.jpg

    Polk-LSi_M-707-cutaway.jpg
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited January 2011
    If people get bent out of shape because I would recommend something like a Crown XLS 402d (which I happen to like better than my HCA 1000A) that's on them. It's just an opinion

    That is FAR from the only or the main reason that you get people bent out of shape. Even you can't be that disingenuous to think that.
    This thread is a perfect example of people going off half cocked with basically zero grasp of the facts: It was an overview. Take 60 seconds and you would see that.

    I read it. Twice. Going off half cocked? Zero grap of facts? Based on that poorly written pile of crap? Pfffffft. I've read better writing on a bathroom stall.
    You being a former Mod here I would love an answer to CFrizz's question about brand bashing being against the rules here and either the tacit or active participation of mods in the bashing. I have the text of her full response if you would like

    Why does Mark owe you anything? Just what EXACTLY do you bring to the table here? Nothing, nada and zip. This is Polk's forum, as such they are entitled to do as they see fit. Don't like it? Take it up with someone that cares.

    You really can't be honest about anything, can you?

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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited January 2011
    tardioholics.com Is a better fit! IMHO


    Cant wait to come across a pair of these. Sexy!!!!


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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited January 2011
    Jeeezuz, Joeseph and doggy-style Mary, I read that thing again.....whoever wrote that should be fired....I mean, that is so poorly written that it's laughable. I mean in style and substance...it's just terrible. F.

    Pfffffffffffffffft.

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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited January 2011
    TroyD wrote: »
    Jeeezuz, Joeseph and doggy-style Mary, I read that thing again.....whoever wrote that should be fired....I mean, that is so poorly written that it's laughable. I mean in style and substance...it's just terrible. F.

    Pfffffffffffffffft.

    BDT

    It really is very poorly written and in my book if you are a reviewer by trade and something like that is written, you loose all credibility with me. I would be embarassed to be associated with that writer. But then that's one of the reasons AA isn't even a blip on my radar.

    H9

    P.s. and while this is a thread about Polk, I've seen the same shoddy writing for other brands as well.
    "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!
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited January 2011
    Another one of these threads? Really?
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • gelinas
    gelinas Posts: 226
    edited January 2011
    is there no word of a matching center channel?
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited January 2011
    I think some of you need to lay off the coffee a bit, the (pre)review appeared pretty positive to me; sans the marketing digs.
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