Thanks for this community!
Scottinwa
Posts: 48
I have to hand it to the folks here. Knowledgeable and helpful... realistic and down to earth. Just so long as emotionally charged speaker rhetoric is left out this place is a treasure trove.
Polk brought me back from a long absence out of 2-channel. Sure, i have my modded klipsch heritage, but no klipsch does for me for 2-channel music what polk does. Polk has more dimension, transparency and timbre than horns give me. they just vanish behind the music and involve me without having to spend THOUSANDS for the privilege.
By polk, I refer to 70's and 80's vintage, especially those upgraded/modded with better parts. I left the "high end" community years ago because it was a money pit. $6,000 for a pair of speakers, $4,500 for an amp. $5,000 for a turntable. $3,000 for a pre amp. And yet 1) STILL... no matter how much I spent, it never seemed to end. 2) No matter what you own at any price... someone will hate it. 3) I found myself enjoying much more modest rigs with things like polk, vandersteen, magnepan etc.
Polk IMO, clearly achieved in the 70's and 80's what they set out to do. They created coherent, transparent, low/uncolored boxless sounding speakers for a price most people could afford. I can remember liking my KEF 104.2's but then saying...oh crap. The polk monitor 12's do everything they can and cost a fraction as much. They sound EVEN better with mods.
Ok, done rambling. I am just giddy from the results I got starting with a $50 pair of Monitor 7's. So little money, so much quality sound. I feel re-energized and very enthusiastic for some future vintage polk projects.
Polk brought me back from a long absence out of 2-channel. Sure, i have my modded klipsch heritage, but no klipsch does for me for 2-channel music what polk does. Polk has more dimension, transparency and timbre than horns give me. they just vanish behind the music and involve me without having to spend THOUSANDS for the privilege.
By polk, I refer to 70's and 80's vintage, especially those upgraded/modded with better parts. I left the "high end" community years ago because it was a money pit. $6,000 for a pair of speakers, $4,500 for an amp. $5,000 for a turntable. $3,000 for a pre amp. And yet 1) STILL... no matter how much I spent, it never seemed to end. 2) No matter what you own at any price... someone will hate it. 3) I found myself enjoying much more modest rigs with things like polk, vandersteen, magnepan etc.
Polk IMO, clearly achieved in the 70's and 80's what they set out to do. They created coherent, transparent, low/uncolored boxless sounding speakers for a price most people could afford. I can remember liking my KEF 104.2's but then saying...oh crap. The polk monitor 12's do everything they can and cost a fraction as much. They sound EVEN better with mods.
Ok, done rambling. I am just giddy from the results I got starting with a $50 pair of Monitor 7's. So little money, so much quality sound. I feel re-energized and very enthusiastic for some future vintage polk projects.
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Yes, they (Matthew & company) did.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Yes, they (Matthew & company) did.
ohh... nice blast from the past! I used to love the military exchange AAFES catalog and used to just read the ink off the page in the polk section, and the polk brochures....as well as magazine reviews. -
...pair of those (7As) in my house since 1978 - they do what they do very well.
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I am negotiating for some monitor 10's right now. My 7's should be getting a new veneer in a few weeks.
