Setting up my Vintage Polk Music room

golfing22002
golfing22002 Posts: 8
in Vintage Speakers
Picked up a 1 owner set of SDA 1C Studios a couple weeks ago and yesterday I bought some mint M5's. My center is the more modern CSIA6. My Sub is the Flagship Micropro 4000 which Polk stopped making. Power wise, I have Emotiva's reference series XPR-2: 500 WPC in 8 Ohms and 1000 WPC in 4 Ohms. Center channel and soon to be M5's will be powered by my Onkyo TX-NR5007 at 145 WPC. I grew up a Polk fan. My father started off with the Monitor 5's before ultimately buying the SDA SRS 1.2's. My SDA 1C's sound incredible. But assume at some point I may need to look at replacing the Tweeters. Anyone have a set of the M5's? I'll basically be using these as my Surrounds for HT and for some of my SACD's that are mixed in 5.1.
Upstairs Music-HT room
Sony-XBR-75X850C 75 inch 4K TV
Emotiva XPR-2 Power Amp
Onkyo TX-NR5007 Receiver
Integra DPS 10-5 DVD/SACD Player
Mains: Polk SDA 1C Studios
Surrounds: Polk M5 Monitors
Center: CSIA6
Subwoofer: MicoPro 4000
Apple TV
DirecTV

Also have a Dedicated Home Theater Room: see Bryan's Home Theater on YouTube

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  • golfing22002
    golfing22002 Posts: 8
    Oops, meant to say my father started off with the Polk 10 Monitors, which is why I've never heard the M5's I bought online.
    Upstairs Music-HT room
    Sony-XBR-75X850C 75 inch 4K TV
    Emotiva XPR-2 Power Amp
    Onkyo TX-NR5007 Receiver
    Integra DPS 10-5 DVD/SACD Player
    Mains: Polk SDA 1C Studios
    Surrounds: Polk M5 Monitors
    Center: CSIA6
    Subwoofer: MicoPro 4000
    Apple TV
    DirecTV

    Also have a Dedicated Home Theater Room: see Bryan's Home Theater on YouTube

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  • golfing22002
    golfing22002 Posts: 8
    Here's a pic of my SDA 1C Studios
    Upstairs Music-HT room
    Sony-XBR-75X850C 75 inch 4K TV
    Emotiva XPR-2 Power Amp
    Onkyo TX-NR5007 Receiver
    Integra DPS 10-5 DVD/SACD Player
    Mains: Polk SDA 1C Studios
    Surrounds: Polk M5 Monitors
    Center: CSIA6
    Subwoofer: MicoPro 4000
    Apple TV
    DirecTV

    Also have a Dedicated Home Theater Room: see Bryan's Home Theater on YouTube

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  • golfing22002
    golfing22002 Posts: 8
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    Upstairs Music-HT room
    Sony-XBR-75X850C 75 inch 4K TV
    Emotiva XPR-2 Power Amp
    Onkyo TX-NR5007 Receiver
    Integra DPS 10-5 DVD/SACD Player
    Mains: Polk SDA 1C Studios
    Surrounds: Polk M5 Monitors
    Center: CSIA6
    Subwoofer: MicoPro 4000
    Apple TV
    DirecTV

    Also have a Dedicated Home Theater Room: see Bryan's Home Theater on YouTube

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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    Very nice. Welcome to CP.
    Home 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
    Sonicaps, Mills, RDO-194s-198s, Dynamat, Hurricane Nuts, Blackhole5
    Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV, Carver PM-600, SVS PB2-Plus Subwoofer

    dhsspeakerservice.com/
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  • golfing22002
    golfing22002 Posts: 8
    Thanks
    Upstairs Music-HT room
    Sony-XBR-75X850C 75 inch 4K TV
    Emotiva XPR-2 Power Amp
    Onkyo TX-NR5007 Receiver
    Integra DPS 10-5 DVD/SACD Player
    Mains: Polk SDA 1C Studios
    Surrounds: Polk M5 Monitors
    Center: CSIA6
    Subwoofer: MicoPro 4000
    Apple TV
    DirecTV

    Also have a Dedicated Home Theater Room: see Bryan's Home Theater on YouTube

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  • golfing22002
    golfing22002 Posts: 8
    Also have a dedicated Home Theater if you want to check it out. It's on YouTube under Bryan's Home Theater in noticed you like SVS subs. I have a couple in my dedicated Home Theater. I did move my TX-NR5007 from my theater to upstairs while I had the HDMI board replaced. My current receiver in my Home Theater is a Pioneer Elite SC-65
    Upstairs Music-HT room
    Sony-XBR-75X850C 75 inch 4K TV
    Emotiva XPR-2 Power Amp
    Onkyo TX-NR5007 Receiver
    Integra DPS 10-5 DVD/SACD Player
    Mains: Polk SDA 1C Studios
    Surrounds: Polk M5 Monitors
    Center: CSIA6
    Subwoofer: MicoPro 4000
    Apple TV
    DirecTV

    Also have a Dedicated Home Theater Room: see Bryan's Home Theater on YouTube

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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    I love my SVS. There's an SVS thread in the Subwoofer Hookup section
    Home 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
    Sonicaps, Mills, RDO-194s-198s, Dynamat, Hurricane Nuts, Blackhole5
    Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV, Carver PM-600, SVS PB2-Plus Subwoofer

    dhsspeakerservice.com/
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    Very Nice, Welcome...Just checked out your HT video, very cool. Be prepared to catch some flac for using Emotiva with the RTi series though :) I do the same thing and I like it very much.
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • honestaquarian
    honestaquarian Posts: 3,186
    Golfing
    Great setup and I see you had the infamous Onkyo HDMI board problem as well !!

    I cannot stress this enough.You should keep the speakers at least three to five feet from any sidewalls or large furniture.Otherwise the early reflections are wreaking havoc with the soundstage.ESPECIALLY the SDA soundstage!!!
    Get those speakers away from the equipment rack and I promise you there will be a large difference in what you hear.
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    Used 4 x 5jr+ for ht once with great results. Well suited for it.
    Main Rig:
    Krell KAV 250a biamped to mid/highs
    Parasound HCA1500A biamped to lows
    Nakamichi EC100 Active xover
    MIT exp 1 ic's
    Perreaux SA33 class A preamp
    AQ kingcobra ic's
    OPPO 83 CDP
    Lehmann audio black cube SE phono pre, Audioquest phono wire (ITA1/1)
    Denon DP-1200 TT. AToc9ML MC cart.
    Monster HTS 3600 power conditioner
    ADS L1590/2 Biamped
    MIT exps2 speaker cable
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  • scootr
    scootr Posts: 22
    I cannot stress this enough.You should keep the speakers at least three to five feet from any sidewalls or large furniture.Otherwise the early reflections are wreaking havoc with the soundstage.ESPECIALLY the SDA soundstage!!!
    Get those speakers away from the equipment rack and I promise you there will be a large difference in what you hear.

    Agreed, spread them out and close to the wall. You wont need a sub if set up proper. Then replace the tweets and be prepared to be blown away!
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