Do you remember your first Polk?

Mikey081057 · November 2013

Not poke

I don't know if this thread was already done... but sitting on a boring a$$ con call this AM

Mine were my Monitor 5B's which I still have.

Throw em out there polkies, and pics would be nice too.

mhardy6647 · November 2013

Given that I still have 'em (since 1978)... heck yes.

DSC_5417 by mhardy6647, on Flickr
Hand sown, home grown ;-)

Further, I remember the first time I heard a pair... in 1976. Liked 'em then, like 'em now.

Polkmonitor7Asn4900 by mhardy6647, on Flickr

Mikey081057 · November 2013

mhardy6647 wrote: »

Given that I still have 'em (since 1978)... heck yes.

DSC_5417 by mhardy6647, on Flickr

I remember the first time I heard a pair... in 1976. Liked 'em then, like 'em now.

Wow and a great room with a spectacular view too.

mhardy6647 · November 2013

They're inside now ;-)

I took that photo on a whim when I moved 'em up to NH last July... seemed oddly appropriate (to my warped sensibilities, at least).

We do have a nice view (if I do say so myself), but I don't really have much of one from the new hifi room. That's OK, though, I go up there to listen not to look.

AsSiMiLaTeD · November 2013

Mine were the RT600, purchased with a Harman Kardon AVR-25 MK!!. That system is still in the family actually, passed down to my younger brother.

TNHNDYMAN · November 2013

My first set of Polk's were Monitor 10's I pick up locally about 4 years ago. That started this crazy journey and though they have since found a new home, I have an older pair of 10's with peerless in storage waiting for a refresh when time allows.

steveinaz · November 2013

SDA-CRS's.

Mikey081057 · November 2013

monitor 5b

xjghost · November 2013

Mine were 10's. I bought them with the money I earned while teaching Dyslexic students during the summer of 1988 IIRC. Still have them. They currently are my mains in my theatre system. Well the start of one.

Faustin · November 2013

Polk 10A. Bought new in 1979 - consecutive serial numbers.

D'prived · November 2013

Mikey081057 wrote: »

Wow and a great room with a spectacular view too.

They would probably sound better out of the box too!

Mystery · November 2013

Polk Monitor 5's.

cnh · November 2013

The first time I ever heard a set of Polks was in a Sam Goody in NYC. I believe they were Monitor 5 juniors with the SL2000 tweeter. I had no idea what Polk was before that!

cnh

mhardy6647 · November 2013

I first heard them (Monitor Series model 7A) at Soundscape in Baltimore (Polk's first dealer) - the amplification was Yamaha. The record player was a Philips GA-212, most likely equipped with a Sonus cartridge. The record was The David Grisman Quintet; a record that was and still is the perfect choice to show off the best aspects of that early Polk Monitor Series.

hochpt21 · November 2013

First time I heard Polks was at BB not too long ago (maybe 2009). Wife and I bought our first house together and she said we had to get rid of the college MTX's that I had.

We went to best buy looking at bookshelf speakers, and the moment he turned on some Polk floorstanders I was hooked. (don't even know what model they were, but they were about the size of monitor 50's)

A few months later I ordered some Monitor 70's off Amazon thinking they were probably the same speakers, and whoa...they were big.

That is how it all started...wen't shopping for some small bookies and ended up with some huge floorstanders. It has snowballed from there, but luckilly I still have the speakers AND the wife :cheesygrin:

WLDock · November 2013

I listen to them for years at the shops but the current speaks in my sig are the first Polk home speakers that I have owned.

As far as the car, I played around with some of their MM / Mobile Monitors component sets and 6x9's for a short spell.

skrol · November 2013

I was going to say that my RTA11TL's were my first Polks but WLDock reminded me that it started with the old Mobile Monitor series MM3a and MM65xx. I still have them in a box in the basement.

boston1450 · November 2013

After owning the same Jensen & Kenwood for over 20+ Years bought at SEARS & ROEBUCK's Cooks Corner Maine my first Polk i owned was RTA15TL what a beautiful speaker :tears rolling down face: The Memories .

seabeerob213 · November 2013

all you old timers with your tearful stories of buying classics, and here i sit, my first polk was a Psw 110 bought on sale and open box, because the store wouldnt get more in and didnt want the display anymore. payed almost US retail for the dared thing, but couldnt be happier with it. it does everything i need it to(although sometimes not as much as i would like) in my tiny barracks room. i payed 159 euro in october of last year, for the dual voltage(with removable cord) cherry finish. after that, i got on here, and i can now say i am the proud owner of a pair of rti 4, 2 csi 3, a pair of the new monitors, the 30s i think(theyre at my dad's place, cant remember, 1 driver, 1 tweet) and a pair of M10's which were bought in a similar manner as the 110. i also have a pair of def-tech pro monitor 800's, a yammy rxv 765, which i love(at 400 brand new, with pre-out support for what looks to be up to 10.2(if it can process all the channels, under its own power will only do 7.2). i also have two psw 505's and an HK 3490, which will need some external crossovers or something, because i dont like the full signal sent to everything(hearing a sub play everything is weird, and the speakers could do a lot more with more power to mids and highs). also saved an old 5 disc dvd from abandonment, and got a decent cd player for the time being. i think one day the M10s with the matching psw 110 (both are the cherry wrap veneer/vinyl stuff) will end up in a garage system. or i might get bored and try to configure the m10s in a way they will run 4 ohm and put them in my car, because i dont feel like building or ordering speaker boxes. sorry to rant, and sorry for no capitals, the computer here at work is slow and laggy, and sometimes it will type them, sometimes wont.