Identify these bookshelf speakers!

mugician
mugician Posts: 1
edited December 2011 in Vintage Speakers
My friend gave me this pair of mystery speakers over a year ago. No label on the back. Only today did I take the speaker out to see what it was. Turns out it's Polk. After I've spent months drooling over a pair of new Polk monitors, I find that I've had a pair right under my nose all this time!

Please help me identify! Woofer has a sticker labelled MW7001. Date of assembly 7/2/93.

Specifically looking for nominal impedance rating. I don't have a multimeter.

Thanks!

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  • MrGlobe
    MrGlobe Posts: 401
    edited December 2011
    Would you mind providing some dimensions? I am not familiar enough with previous Polk designs to know off hand what they are. From the pic it would seem they are a medium sized 2 way bookshelf. What size is the woofer?
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  • nwohlford
    nwohlford Posts: 700
    edited December 2011
    These are just called Polk Monitors. I am guessing that they are pretty rare. (I have never seen a pair and there does not seem to be much info on them.) The Mini Monitors that came out around the same time were 8 ohms, so these may be as well.

    Here is another thread about them.
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?36290-monitors-(no-number-after-name)
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  • nwohlford
    nwohlford Posts: 700
    edited December 2011
    Actually, it looks like they may be 4 ohms.

    http://pitonelab.ru/reports/speakers/POLKAUDIO/MONITOR_1995/
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  • skrol
    skrol Posts: 3,381
    edited December 2011
    I have the literature for these speakers and they are listed as "compatible with 8 ohm outputs".

    overall freq resp: 35Hz - 25KHz
    -3dB limits: 55Hz - 23KHz
    Recommended amplification: 20 - 100 watts/ch
    efficiency: 91dB

    Tweeter: 1/2 inch dome
    Woofer: 6.5 inch composite polymer
    Stan

    Main 2ch:
    Polk LSi15 (DB840 upgrade), Parasound: P/LD-1100, HCA-1000A; Denon: DVD-2910, DRM-800A; Benchmark DAC1, Monster HTS3600-MKII, Grado SR-225i; Technics SL-J2, Parasound PPH-100.

    HT:
    Marantz SR7010, Polk: RTA11TL (RDO198-1, XO and Damping Upgrades), S4, CS250, PSW110 , Marantz UD5005, Pioneer PL-530, Panasonic TC-P42S60

    Other stuff:
    Denon: DRA-835R, AVR-888, DCD-660, DRM-700A, DRR-780; Polk: S8, Monitor 5A, 5B, TSi100, RM7, PSW10 (DXi104 upgrade); Pioneer: CT-6R; Onkyo CP-1046F; Ortofon OM5E, Marantz: PM5004, CD5004, CDR-615; Parasound C/PT-600, HCA-800ii, Sony CDP-650ESD, Technics SA 5070, B&W DM601
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