Polk audio Monitor series speakers

JohnnyM7
JohnnyM7 Posts: 11
edited January 2011 in Vintage Speakers
Hey I'm from Australia and i have a pair of Polk Audio monitor series 2 speakers, they were built in 1991.

the model number is "M7 9010523" and i believe the drivers are stuffed after a party where the Onkyo TX-DS494 was turned up to MAXIMUM all night, no sub or center speaker, just these two beauties filling the whole house with music. They sounded great too until the next morning.

The speakers have always performed hard and i'd love to get them fixed.

I have temporarly fixed a driver using a dodgy super glue job but the other one defiantly needs replacing.

Was wondering how many others have these same speakers and if Polk audio will ship to Australia (i'm NOT PAYING $180 each for drivers locally when they're like $60 US dollars each over here).

Thanks.
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  • gold01ca
    gold01ca Posts: 50
    edited January 2011
    pull the driver and post the part number, you'll have better luck getting a reply on here.
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  • JohnnyM7
    JohnnyM7 Posts: 11
    edited January 2011
    The driver is the MW 6502.

    Sorry, forgot to post that above.
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  • gold01ca
    gold01ca Posts: 50
    edited January 2011
    keep an eye on fleabay too, they come up frequently, used.
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  • JohnnyM7
    JohnnyM7 Posts: 11
    edited January 2011
    hmmmm i was told polk audio still sells these drivers, hopefully to australians which is my main concern (sometimes they screw us by making us pay 2-3 times as much locally).


    If all else fails yeah i'll start checking ebay.

    personally do you guys think these are worth repairing?

    they cost me about $300 to fix when i got given them about 4 years ago (new crossovers,new tweeters, drivers were 'repaired').
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  • gold01ca
    gold01ca Posts: 50
    edited January 2011
    up here in Canada, the only way to get parts is through the Canadian service rep. Polk USA wont deal with us so I'm not sure what the situation might be in Aussieland.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2011
    Johnny - Email me directly and we'll try and assist you. Highlight my name and choose email.

    Gold - There's a reason we utilize our Canadian sales rep and support structure....and if you're not getting proper support, which I doubt beings I know him, then you need to let Polk Audio know. Simple.

    Mark
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • JohnnyM7
    JohnnyM7 Posts: 11
    edited January 2011
    http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2663/photoli.jpg

    Heres a photo of one of the drivers.

    Now i understand the new 'version' or reproduction of these drivers are the same?

    Will i still be able to turn these speakers up loud? hahahaha, thats all that really matters aye..

    BTW are crossovers available? I think they're stuffed.
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  • AudioGenics
    AudioGenics Posts: 2,567
    edited January 2011
    found you over here and so you are also in Australia. Hope you are not in all the terrible flooding.

    good luck on fixing your 7's.
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  • JohnnyM7
    JohnnyM7 Posts: 11
    edited January 2011
    AudioGenics wrote: »
    found you over here and so you are also in Australia. Hope you are not in all the terrible flooding.

    good luck on fixing your 7's.

    Haha thanks mate.

    This years flooding was horrible but luckily i'm on the other side of the country. I've been to Queensland when it was dry before and the flood level indicators standing tall were scary they went that high.
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  • JohnnyM7
    JohnnyM7 Posts: 11
    edited January 2011
    Oh another quick question, what model speakers do i have?

    like i see so many different ones,

    On the back is a sticker saying

    "Monitor Series 2"

    M79010523

    is this the monitor 7 series 2?
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  • stubby
    stubby Posts: 723
    edited January 2011
    Sure sounds like Monitor 7 to me. Do they have one black tweeter, one 6.5 inch midbass and a 10 inch passive radiator per cabinet? If so, they are 7s. Good luck with your quest.

    stubby
    SRS 3.1TL
    Harman Kardon Citation 5.1
    Anthem AVM2



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  • JohnnyM7
    JohnnyM7 Posts: 11
    edited January 2011
    stubby wrote: »
    Sure sounds like Monitor 7 to me. Do they have one black tweeter, one 6.5 inch midbass and a 10 inch passive radiator per cabinet? If so, they are 7s. Good luck with your quest.

    stubby

    Ahh thanks mate, that describes them to a T. I picked these speakers up from a local fleamarket for $30 and one of the crossovers was stuffed, had that fixed and they've sounded really nice since that, but hey everything gets old, i think these are worth fixing so here goes, looks like i'll be upgrading the stuffed crossover parts and adding new drivers. Tweeters should be fine.

    however i havent seen pictures of many others around the place, not even when i google it.

    Now i can be more certain im getting the right parts as i'm going to re do both crossovers.
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  • geph0007
    geph0007 Posts: 9
    edited January 2011
    Hi, I have a very nice pair of MW 6502s from a Monitor 7. They are original. Keith
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  • JohnnyM7
    JohnnyM7 Posts: 11
    edited January 2011
    DAMMIT i'm up for new tweeters as well, only one of them is an original SL2500 tweeter the other is god knows what piece of crap, absolutely tiny in comparison.

    arghhhhhh!

    replace the fake with an original SL2500 is in order.
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  • JohnnyM7
    JohnnyM7 Posts: 11
    edited January 2011
    Ok can somebody help me here

    http://www.soundlabsgroup.com.au

    im having alot of trouble being sure on what capacitors and resistors i need.
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