My first Polks - SDA 1B

Wardsweb
Wardsweb Posts: 939
edited December 2003 in Speakers
Thought I would post a picture of my newly aquired SDA 1B's. While many would find these to be somewhat large speakers, you can see them in comparison to the rest of my home theater. Many thanks to all who have endured my questions and those who have helped with cables and documents. I really appreciate the helping hand to a newbie.

Appologies for the kind of off color of the photo. Hard to shoot by halogen light.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited December 2003
    So what do you notice when comparing the SDA's to the ML's? Never heard the ML's for myself.
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited December 2003
    They look really nice. You did a great job on the refinishing.
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited December 2003
    Your first, but probably not your last. Looking forward to a full report.

    Looks GREAT, and damn those electrostats are HUGE.

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited December 2003
    Sweet, the refinishing is very nice. You will get hungrier for larger and more fearsome SDA's....its your destiny now :D
    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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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited December 2003
    Congrats on the find. I'm looking forward to reading a review.
    Is that your 3000watt rig? Those ML's are huge:eek: .

    Maurice
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited December 2003
    Ward - Is that little blue chair in your entertainment center your listening chair? It looks a little snug for long term demo's :D
    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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  • Wardsweb
    Wardsweb Posts: 939
    edited December 2003
    Thanks guys, glad you approve. yes, this is my mega system. I have the Carver A-760x pushing the SDA's (380 watts per channel into 8 ohms, 600 watts per channel into 4 ohms and 1150 watts per channel into 2 ohms). I really want to spend some extended time listening to these. On initial listening, they are very open, clean highs and good bottom end. Still gotta quit looking around for where the sound is coming from. :D

    FYI: the chair was my Father's when he was a toddler.

    Here is a close up pic of one SDA
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited December 2003
    I will admit, it was kind of fun to see you looking to your sides during your SRS 2 demo at my house.

    SDA's give a whole new meaning to the word 'soundstage', don't they?

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited December 2003
    edit: oops wrong thread
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,687
    edited December 2003
    Originally posted by Wardsweb
    Still gotta quit looking around for where the sound is coming from. :D

    hehe.......another convert
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2003
    Very nice WW.

    SDA's... TFM's out the ying-yang... and a sweet old Teac to boot.

    Nice web-site also. Believe I have stumbled across it before...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • Wardsweb
    Wardsweb Posts: 939
    edited December 2003
    Technically:Carver A-760x, Carver A-500x, Carver TFM-35 and Teac X-1000R
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited December 2003
    WOW, really nice!!!!

    Great setup, I'm envious!

    Great to have another Carver fan 'round here.

    Russ has done nothing but sing Wardsweb praises to me, in fact I'm surprised he didn't try and hump his leg at some point.

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited December 2003
    Troy, look at the first picture he posted.

    That is ONE room in his humble abode. Think about that. The guy has to either unass some gear SOMEDAY, or die.

    Now do you understand why I'm so nice to him (or YOU for that matter)? Sheesh.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2003
    So you did hump his leg???
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • Wardsweb
    Wardsweb Posts: 939
    edited December 2003
    OK, now you can drool. :D
    http://www.wardsweb.org/lansing/systems/
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited December 2003
    Wardswer

    Welcome to the Forum.

    Have you ever sold or thrown anything out?

    We have a flea market here.
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited December 2003
    Ward,
    I feel for ya my brutha, I may take the lead in getting a collection going to get you some decent gear for that buck nekkid room of yours!:(

    Sweet setup, very sweet!
    9/11 - WE WILL NEVER FORGET!! (<---<<click)
    2005-06 Club Polk Football Pool Champion!! :D
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  • Wardsweb
    Wardsweb Posts: 939
    edited December 2003
    Audio is a disease with no cure, an addiction you can not break. You can only feed it more gear to curb the cravings for a little while. My casket will have a stereo. :D
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited December 2003
    Right on!

    I call it "electronic heroin".

    See may thread.
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  • scottvamp
    scottvamp Posts: 3,277
    edited December 2003
    WOW!!!!:eek:
    Wardsweb - ya da man!!!!!!!!!
    That tube amp and cd transport are insane.........
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  • Wardsweb
    Wardsweb Posts: 939
    edited December 2003
    Well after getting the interconnect cable and spending a little time adjusting placement , preamp input levels and amplifier gains, I sat down for some dedicated listening. These speaker do some pretty incredible things. Of course the soundstage is huge, as you know and I'm finding out. These is such depth, excellent imaging, three-dimensional presentation, and sweet highs. At this point, you might be wondering if I like these speakers :D As my daughter would say "well DUH!". My only problem now is finding out where in the house to put them.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited December 2003
    Ward - I think it is really neat that you have become a SDA'er. I know that you are fully audio tuned, why havn't you done this earlier? Had you heard of the SDA's previously?

    Do you find it is more a novelty effect or genuine? I remember a comment in Stereophile, I believe that was the publication, damning the SDA's as a novelty...and that has always bothered me. I think anything against the grain, or "new" could be classified in that same silly bracket.

    It is interesting to hear so many people praise the effect.....and Polk not hear that anymore.....so many people STILL own their SDA's....or buy new SDA's(To Them)....and Polk is still waffling.
    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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  • Wardsweb
    Wardsweb Posts: 939
    edited December 2003
    Not only had I never heard of it, I didn't know what it was after I bought them. It came as a total suprise that I needed a cable to hook my speakers together. Now I understand the crossovers working in conjunction to drive the speakers to take Carver's version "sonic holography" to the next plane or spatial dimension, if you will. This isn' t the Twilight Zone it's the "SDA Zone":D
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2003
    Originally posted by Wardsweb
    ... the crossovers working in conjunction to drive the speakers to take Carver's version "sonic holography" to the next plane or spatial dimension...
    Yeppers... :)

    What really hooked me was the size of the SDA effect. While SH is about a head width, SDA is easily three full seating positions.

    While dead center is still the sweetest for SDA listening, at least those flanking you aren't saying, "I don't get it..."
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • dan t
    dan t Posts: 206
    edited December 2003
    I like the look of the LP's there in the background. Nice!

    Dan
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2003
    Good eyes dan... I was focussing too much on the gear...

    But whazup with the blue, mini-rocker? That for the pooch?
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • Wardsweb
    Wardsweb Posts: 939
    edited December 2003
    The chair is a keepsake, as it was my father's when he was a little boy. My father died when he was ony 53. I lost out on many a year of electronics, audio and music. They were his passions too.

    As for the vinyl. I'm not a die hard vinyl guy, but I do appreciate a good clean piece of vinyl. Mainly used in my other audio only system with a Rega Planar 3.
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited December 2003
    I could take those "ala Magnificents" off your hands if you need to free up some space or anything.:D

    Did you build those cabs yourself? If so, could you point me in the direction of some plans?
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2003
    Sorry Ww.... Nice rememberance item...

    I think your Dad would be impressed with a number of your rigs...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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