10a placement in a small room?
moparjeff340
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First of all - Great Forum! The knowledge and experience evident in the 300 or so posts I've already read (in one day) is invaluable!
After 20 years of missing the Monitor 4's I had as a teenager, I finally started looking for some vintage polks. Picked up a pair of PRISTINE 10a's off CL for a meager $40.00!! They have the peerless tweeters and the drivers, boxes and grills look great. They sound great too, but I have them in a small 12x13 room and they are only about 5 feet apart and sitting on the ground. The imaging and sound field are OK, but not as good as I remember with the 4's. I've moved them around as much as the space permits, but can't get that sweet sound I remember. Is my room just too small, will stands help, what suggestions do you have for my situation?
After 20 years of missing the Monitor 4's I had as a teenager, I finally started looking for some vintage polks. Picked up a pair of PRISTINE 10a's off CL for a meager $40.00!! They have the peerless tweeters and the drivers, boxes and grills look great. They sound great too, but I have them in a small 12x13 room and they are only about 5 feet apart and sitting on the ground. The imaging and sound field are OK, but not as good as I remember with the 4's. I've moved them around as much as the space permits, but can't get that sweet sound I remember. Is my room just too small, will stands help, what suggestions do you have for my situation?
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You need the Polk stands, which raise them off the floor, and pitch them back about 6 degrees. http://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/24335/polk-audio-monitor-series-stands-referenceHome Theater/2 Channel:
Front: SDA-2ATL forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/143984/my-2as-finally-finished-almost/p1
Center: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/150760/my-center-channel-project/p1
Surrounds & Rears: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/151647/my-surround-project/p1
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WOW. 40.00 you paid too much
^^^^^^^ +1 welcome to Polk. Enjoy your new to you speakers
EDIT: What have you got them hooked up to ?.. -
Thanks for the reply's guys. They are currently hooked to a vintage Yamaha R-8, which I bought new in 1985. I think is rated at 85 watts, and I think it does a good job driving them. I did raise the speakers up about 15" and it helped, but as DSkip noted above, it's nowhere near the warm, incredibly pleasing sound stage of those tiny little 4's.
I just found a set of SDA 2b's on CL for $250 w/o the interconnect cable. The owner said all of the woofers have been refoamed and the magnets epoxied, but they used foam instead of rubber when they did the refoam job. Not sure if I want to get into those or not....
What do you think of that price for the 2b's?
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Wait, they replaced the rubber surrounds with foam? I wouldn't buy them.
Is there pictures to verify? If they are mistaken on what has been "refoamed" then yes, they are worth $250.afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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Keep 'em (10s, that is) out of corners and (if at all possible) away from walls (especially back walls) for best results. The original Polkstands are very simple; a pair can be easily knocked together from plywood. Dimensions may be found here on the forum.
