Polk Monitor 5A's

daboyz

Up for grabs is a nice pair of 5A's.

The bad news:
The cabinets have some nicks and dings but nothing too major. A chip in the back middle of one and the rear corners have some issues. The name badges are intact. I'd rate them a 6.5 out of ten. Pretty good for their age.

The good news:
The drivers are in very nice condition, they sound great.

The really good news:
These have the Peerless tweeters.

I would like to get $80 for these. I am not interested in shipping as of right now. I do work in the Chicago area so a possible meet in there could be arranged.

Pics to follow. If in a hurry I can send by phone.

Morpheus

Do these have the same speakers, particularly the Driver MW 6502 in them?

I'd only be interested in them for the mid-range drivers for a pair of Monitor 7 speakers I have in which one of the MW 6502's went bad. Let me know if they have the MW 6502 driver and if you'd be interested in parting the speakers out and selling the MW 6502 if they have them.

FWIW, I'm also in Illinois. North of Chicago as a matter of fact.

cnh

My Monitor 5As have the MW 6502 mids, probably the standard here. They sound 'fabulous' and with the Peerless they're certainly worth dayboyz's asking price above!

GLWTS!

cnh

Morpheus

Would the peerless tweeters also work in Monitor 7's? Might be worth getting the pair for the price. It's just my budget is nill to none and the speakers are only hooked up to our gaming system. So, I'm not sure I would need or have to do this. Now, if for listening to music or watching movies, maybe or probably. lol

But, as I said, at the price, or if he'll part them out and the price is right? We shall see.

Big Dawg

Morpheus wrote: »

Would the peerless tweeters also work in Monitor 7's? Might be worth getting the pair for the price. It's just my budget is nill to none and the speakers are only hooked up to our gaming system. So, I'm not sure I would need or have to do this. Now, if for listening to music or watching movies, maybe or probably. lol

But, as I said, at the price, or if he'll part them out and the price is right? We shall see.

No, only 7s that originally came with the Peerless or SL1000 tweeters would have the right crossover, and the opening would be too big in a later 7. You could probably mod them for the Peerless, but if you're doing that you'd be better off just dropping in an RDO194.

cnh

Depends o what model 7 you have? Peerless tweeters will not 'fit' the standard mount on non-peerless 7s and I'm sure the crossovers are a bit different as well. But the DIY-guys know more about that and will probably chime in here!

OK, Big Dawg has you covered, I thought so!

cnh

daboyz

Not really interested in parting them at this time. I would really like them to go to a home where they'll be kept intact and enjoyed. Always good to hear from a fellow Illinoisan!

cnh

I have to agree. I just did a repair on a torn surround on mine--seems to have done the trick. I really don't like to see 'classics' parted out, myself!


cnh

skrol

cnh wrote: »

My Monitor 5As have the MW 6502 mids, probably the standard here. ...
cnh

That is interesting. My 5A's (1983) have the MW6500 and Peerless. My 5B's (1984) have the MW6502 and SL2000.
Stan

leroyjr1

skrol wrote: »

That is interesting. My 5A's (1983) have the MW6500 and Peerless. My 5B's (1984) have the MW6502 and SL2000.
Stan

My peerless also had the mw6500's.

cnh

That's possible since my 6502 was actually a replacement driver? I should pull the other one and see what that is!

While we're on this...are the specs for the two radically different? Because if I have one 6500 and one 6502 (which I suppose is possible, I don't hear a difference--or maybe my 'ears' are just shot!). Also, aren't there multiple versions of any Monitor or SDA where the drivers 'vary'? I remember reading threads on SDAs, for example, where we have SDA 2s, 2As, and 2Bs and even within each of these models, the drivers can vary, are not always the same? As Polk had lots of 'transitional' models that carried the same model numbers.

Also, according to Doro's recent list of replacement drivers, I see no 6500s on that list?

No big problem though. I leave the specs to those of you who have the 'real' DIY expertise,
Of course, it goes without saying, that that is not yours truly! lol!

cnh

Morpheus

Well, after looking at them, they have the Silver coil dome tweeters.

And daboyz, I completely understand. If I had and could spare the money, I'd buy them and repair the cabinets as I like doing that stuff. And if you knew me, you'd know they'd be done right because I'm what you'd call a perfectionist. lol

Hopefully, I found a MW6502 and everything goes alright. Waiting to hear back for payment info. And I removed the other driver and put it in the one that's bad to make sure that's all it needs and it worked great. So, I put the other back together and once I get that driver, all will be good and back to normal. Well, as normal as normal can be anyhow. lol

Morpheus

cnh wrote: »

I have to agree. I just did a repair on a torn surround on mine--seems to have done the trick. I really don't like to see 'classics' parted out, myself!


cnh

Me either. And FWIW, the only reason I asked about parting them out was because of the cabinets being dinged and nicked up and figured depending on how bad they are, someone getting them just might only get them for parts? minor to someone might be major to someone else. Especially a perfectionist. And or to someone where everything else is pristine. Anyhow, again, I too understand.

skrol

I believe Polk carries the MW6503 as a replacement for the MW6500. Both are 8 ohm. They still sell the MW6502 which is 4 ohm. I wonder if you have the right replacement or is it a Franken-Polk?

cnh

Interesting, thanks!

I'll have to pull the other driver and take a look....everything on both speakers is identical except that one has this 2004 replacement 6502 driver. The other looks to original to me...as do the PRs and the Peerless.

cnh

cnh

OK, this thread really ended up helping me. I bought a set of 5As about a couple of years ago from a fellow Polkie hear who shall remain nameless. Never saw actually pics of them, picked them up but wasn't allowed a chance to look at the drivers--things were a bit rushed. Weeks later I saw I have a replacement mid-driver that has a 1" tear in the rubber surround allowing more of the air to leak out of the cabinet. I went to China for a year! I returned, a half a year went by where I had the speaker stored because I wanted to address the surround. About a month ago I repaired the surround only to find in this thread that the surround I repaired was on a 6502 which is NOT an original driver for 5As??

So not only was I sold a defective driver unit, the 'wrong' driver is in there. Really guys, for the most part, I've had 'excellent' dealings with the Flea Market here, really first rate. But shouldn't this seller have disclosed some of this before the sale? Oh well, in any case, I'm going to pick up a couple of 6500s from Keith (so I have a spare). And the story comes to a good ending...Polkies come through again!

But please, when you sell something, 'disclose' any problems that you may know about it; keep the FM's integrity at a high rate and 'safe'.

cnh

heiney9

Maybe the seller didn't know? Was he the original owner? We all know Polk was a veritable parts bin company. I have a pair of 5B's that are fused, typically 5B's weren't fused only 5A's and real early 5's had both fused.

As much as I can appreciate your concern, a pair of 30 year old speakers that may have been thru a few different owners or perhaps even factory repaired, might not be 100% as they left the showroom. When I worked in audio selling Polk, believe it or not some of the warranty parts were different, as in, they changed drivers, etc and our repair department went with what the factory sent us. If they sent us a replacement driver we assumed it was correct, it was coming from the factory and I'm sure when they ran out of a particular model driver if another was in stock and essentially the same, they sent that.

H9

pitdogg2

heiney9 wrote: »

Maybe the seller didn't know? Was he the original owner? We all know Polk was a veritable parts bin company. I have a pair of 5B's that are fused, typically 5B's weren't fused only 5A's and real early 5's had both fused.

As much as I can appreciate your concern, a pair of 30 year old speakers that may have been thru a few different owners or perhaps even factory repaired, might not be 100% as they left the showroom. When I worked in audio selling Polk, believe it or not some of the warranty parts were different, as in, they changed drivers, etc and our repair department went with what the factory sent us. If they sent us a replacement driver we assumed it was correct, it was coming from the factory and I'm sure when they ran out of a particular model driver if another was in stock and essentially the same, they sent that.

H9

Bingo agree 100%

heiney9

Sorry to muck up the FS thread Dave. One last point. I worked about 2 years selling Polk and you would not believe the number of speakers that came in for driver repair from being toasted by some dumb-**** trying to play his gear full blast. For some customers it was a revolving door because people were using recievers mostly back then and playing them too loud. So who knows maybe in the 90's the speaker was repaired and a 6502 was added per factory spec since the 6500 was no longer available. You just never know the history of a 30 year old speaker.

H9

pitdogg2

Hey it went to 10 I only had it on 9.5 I still had some knob left.....

cnh

I understand what you're saying and agree, even Polk could have had a wrong driver in there. But the real problem was not disclosing a rip in the mid. I'm sure daboyz's speakers above, which are the price I paid for mine, have no such flaws.

So, back to the thread. Nice set of 5As above, with the Peerless. Someone out to snag these, I really like mine, the peerless is a very smooth and pleasing tweeter--you'll like it!

GLWTS!

cnh

daboyz

daboyz

daboyz

daboyz

Bump. Will consider offers or trades on these

dorokusai

What would you take in order to add these to the Polk Museum in Baltimore? They don'tr have a pair of them and it would be nice to add to the collection.

daboyz

PM sent Mark.

I'll go $70 local but that's as far as I'll go. May consider shipping but could be pricey.

daboyz

Working with Doro to send these home so they're gone.

dorokusai

Polk and I are working with Daboyz(Dave) to get these into the museum up at HQ. He was absolutely gracious enough to entertain the offer and let us add them to the room. Big thanks to him and all that he's done and we'll ensure that they get a nice home.

heiney9

Dave is stand up guy. Glad these are going "home".