old cheapies
jimC2
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Forgot I had these. I know they were one of the cheap, almost forgotten models. Monitor bookshelf speakers with sealed enclosure, no series # just monitor. All they have on back is Polk Audio, Monitor and MR36348 and Mr36349. Midrange and highs sound great, almost no bass. Can't find anything on internet. Any body know about them?
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Mini Monitors perhaps? Do they have the peerless tweeters, 4.5" mids and 4,5" pass, rad. Could try typing Polk mini monitors in Google bar and then click on images for picturesPost edited by notified on
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I remember those from around 1980 or so. A long narrow enclosure, not very deep. One driver, one drone and a tweeter. I think they had a fuse at the input but it has been many, many years. A friend of mine used them in his car system since they sounded better than many car audio speakers at the time. Their main competitor was probably the a/d/s L200 or L300. Some photos of those old beauties would be awesome.
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All they have is a tweeter and woofer that is about 5 1/4". No passive radiator, no vent, sealed enclosure. The enclosure is 14"H x 8"W x 7 1/2" deep, no fuse. I'll try to get pictures.
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Those are bigger than the ones I am thinking of. They had a dome tweeter and a 4" main driver, coupled to a 4" passive with a flat cone. Long rectangular enclosure only about 1 ft long and maybe 5" deep and like 5-6" across. I saw a pair on eBay months ago and I should have saved the photos. These were made around 1979 or 1980.
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I found some photos on eBay. I wish I would have seen that auction I would have bought them. This is what I was talking about
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With the grills on.
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Those drivers look like the ones they used in the S line. Kind of look like S4 with a different tweeter. The S line was made in the early 90s.Polk S10, S8, S4
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All they have is a tweeter and woofer that is about 5 1/4". No passive radiator, no vent, sealed enclosure. The enclosure is 14"H x 8"W x 7 1/2" deep, no fuse. I'll try to get pictures.
I measured the woofer from middle to middle of surround. Did search for mini monitors and that was something else, had passive radiator. -
deucekazoo wrote: »Those drivers look like the ones they used in the S line. Kind of look like S4 with a different tweeter. The S line was made in the early 90s.
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deucekazoo wrote: »Those drivers look like the ones they used in the S line. Kind of look like S4 with a different tweeter. The S line was made in the early 90s.
I bought them about the same time as a pair of S10's that I still have.
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MW-7000
Polk S10, S8, S4
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They came out the same time as the S series, early 90's. See the attached brochure.
StanStan
Main 2ch:
Polk LSi15 (DB840 upgrade), Parasound: P/LD-1100, HCA-1000A; Denon: DVD-2910, DRM-800A; Benchmark DAC1, Monster HTS3600-MKII, Grado SR-225i; Technics SL-J2, Parasound PPH-100.
HT:
Marantz SR7010, Polk: RTA11TL (RDO198-1, XO and Damping Upgrades), S4, CS250, PSW110 , Marantz UD5005, Pioneer PL-530, Panasonic TC-P42S60
Other stuff:
Denon: DRA-835R, AVR-888, DCD-660, DRM-700A, DRR-780; Polk: S8, Monitor 5A, 5B, TSi100, RM7, PSW10 (DXi104 upgrade); Pioneer: CT-6R; Onkyo CP-1046F; Ortofon OM5E, Marantz: PM5004, CD5004, CDR-615; Parasound C/PT-600, HCA-800ii, Sony CDP-650ESD, Technics SA 5070, B&W DM601 -
Thanks, that is what I've been searching for.
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I wasn't searching for it :-P but I am a vintage catalog/literature junkie and I much appreciate access to that product blurb, too! Thanks for sharing it.
This speaker comes from an era of Polk products with which I am very unfamiliar.
As a partly off-topic aside... the original version of the Polk Mini-Monitor (ca. 1976 or 77, with the CTS 'fullrange' driver flanked by a 4-inch passive radiator and the Peerless silk dome tweeter) had a trapezoidal cabinet. The version with the 'monkey coffin' (rectangular) enclosure shown in posts 6 to 8 above came along slightly later. -
I use these with a Hsu vtf sub crossed over at 80hz and they sound real good. That is a combination that seems to work so I've kept it, moving it to a smaller room when I finally got bigger speakers.
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They are not from the S series. These are S4's
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They came out about the same time, but not S series.
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I was not saying they were the S4s but the driver looks the same as the one used in the S4s. Would be nice to know what that model number is on your monitor drivers.Polk S10, S8, S4
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deucekazoo wrote: »I was not saying they were the S4s but the driver looks the same as the one used in the S4s. Would be nice to know what that model number is on your monitor drivers.
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deucekazoo wrote: »I was not saying they were the S4s but the driver looks the same as the one used in the S4s. Would be nice to know what that model number is on your monitor drivers.
Monitor has MW7001 woofer, S4 has MW7000.
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I wonder if one is a 4 ohm and the other an 8 ohm. I believe the MW7000 is a 4 ohm driver.Polk S10, S8, S4
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If I had to guess, the mw7001 has a bucking magnet for video shielding, and the mw7000 does not. Pull a mw7001 driver and we will know.
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Don't think they are 4 ohm, but not sure. Brochure only says compatible with 8 ohm. The woofers look exactly alike, didn't see bucking magnet.
