New Forum Background

D2Lo
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Hey Fellas

We changed the Forum background today. I know many of you were not keen on the old one. I'm going to try to make sure we change it a couple of times a year, especially when we launch new products in the component categories.... and before I get a lot of sarcastic remarks about how that should be once a decade, I can assure you it will be soon and you will be pumped. ;)

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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,535
    Good work!
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,596
    D2Lo wrote: »
    Hey Fellas

    We changed the Forum background today. I know many of you were not keen on the old one. I'm going to try to make sure we change it a couple of times a year, especially when we launch new products in the component categories.... and before I get a lot of sarcastic remarks about how that should be once a decade, I can assure you it will be soon and you will be pumped. ;)

    Michael


    Oh you big tease...

    Gonna drop that bomd and walk away lol
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  • MrBuhl
    MrBuhl Posts: 2,419
    Looks great! Tho I never minded the Camden in the background. That is a modern piece of Polk that I use frequently and always enjoy, another well executed item IMO.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    D2Lo wrote: »
    Hey Fellas

    We changed the Forum background today. I know many of you were not keen on the old one. I'm going to try to make sure we change it a couple of times a year, especially when we launch new products in the component categories.... and before I get a lot of sarcastic remarks about how that should be once a decade, I can assure you it will be soon and you will be pumped. ;)

    Michael11dz94wz2c3v.png

    An SDA heritage series for Xmas? I call dibs on the demo launch! B)
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    An SDA heritage series for Xmas? I call dibs on the demo launch! B)

    Awesome! Heard it here first, new SDA's on the way! Tell all your friends. :)
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    How about a really big, fantastic change into the 21st century by going with Vbulletin. Now that would be worth celebrating.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,972
    edited June 2016
    I totally missed it until I saw this thread's title! D'oh.
    Looks pretty serious (I mean that as a compliment).
    Thanks for the update.
    BlueFox wrote: »
    How about a really big, fantastic change into the 21st century by going with Vbulletin. Now that would be worth celebrating.

    vBulletin is (apparently) no longer much in fashion -- Xenforo is the preferred platform nowadays, it seems (not one that I much care for, FWIW). It's got all of the stuff that the smartphone generation expects, though.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,972
    Maybe the original Mini-Monitors are comin' back...
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  • D2Lo
    D2Lo Posts: 352
    I've got to keep you guys guessing. I've already said too much :-)

    But you give me an idea, maybe we should change the background once a month to be a shot of a key vintage product from the archives...
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,671
    D2Lo wrote: »
    I've got to keep you guys guessing. I've already said too much :-)

    But you give me an idea, maybe we should change the background once a month to be a shot of a key vintage product from the archives...

    now tha'st a heck of an idea
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    I have always wondered how the 1.2TL would look if the level of finish was up to b&w diamond standards...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,972
    D2Lo wrote: »
    I've got to keep you guys guessing. I've already said too much :-)
    Hmmm. Better keep a lookout over your shoulder when you go out to the car after work today... ;-)

    [/quote]But you give me an idea, maybe we should change the background once a month to be a shot of a key vintage product from the archives...[/quote]
    Well... I like that idea... but I am an old guy... not necessarily the Polk brand's target demographic, you know what I'm getting at? :-/

    9606201717_d3fb6c6688_z.jpgearlypolkfamilyportrait by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

    11208642076_3f7f8db8b1_b.jpgPolkmonitor7Asn4900 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    I own a few sets of the old geezers myself.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,972
    26830474734_6519b94dde_b.jpgDSC_1151 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
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  • littlewoodboats
    littlewoodboats Posts: 823
    edited June 2016
    My geezers are not as old as the ones Mark posted but from the same gene pool.

    Other than six replacement tweeters I have never actually bought anything FROM Polk.

    I guess this is not true. My PSW125 came from the ebay outlet. Forgot about that one
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  • D2Lo
    D2Lo Posts: 352
    One of the designers here picked off a pair of Monitor Monitor 7Bs from a thrift store recently. We brought them into the studio and fired them up. Sounded like magic still after all these years.
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    Bought a set of 74-75 era 7 from Micah. Tags are still on the backs. Sounding sweet to this day. X-over refresh coming soon.
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  • littlewoodboats
    littlewoodboats Posts: 823
    I love my Series II M7's. They also sounded great right from the start and just got better with the updates. Tweeters, dynamat, J B weld, new caps and resistors.

    Its funny, but having all of the hands on time getting to this point makes them feel special in a way no new speaker can match.

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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,905
    I really want a pair of 7's, hard to find in my area.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,735
    Hard to believe, but I heard a pair a 7A's for the first time last fall and even though I have no where to use them I want a pair just cause.
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,668
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    26830474734_6519b94dde_b.jpgDSC_1151 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
    What model are these ?

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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,668
    NM i saw the link
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,972
    boston1450 wrote: »
    What model are these ?

    That is an LF14 subwoofer. I (think I) donated it to Polk six or seven years ago. When last seen, it was in the back of Dorokusai's (remember him?) Avalanche skittering out of a parking lot in Westminster, MD. I'm not quite sure whatever became of it. It's probably in a crate next to the Ark of the Covenant in a large warehouse somewhere in the DC suburbs...

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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,668
    Mark i actually forgot all about those & was looking hard to see where tweeter was & at first i thought my eyesight was worse than i thought. Then i followed your link. I remember talk of those awhile back here. Very nice
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    Looks eerily similar to the base of an RTA-12
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,972
    westmassguy wrote: »
    Looks eerily similar to the base of an RTA-12

    I think it is indeed basically the original "Monitor 12" sans tweeter (and, presumably, with a different XO).

    As an aside, I think the "Monitor 12" wasn't initially called the RTA-12, although the driver arrangement was called a "Real Time Array", right from the get-go.
    (at least that's my recollection... I guess its gettin' to be a long time ago)
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,003
    I was kinda hoping for a little "Italian" injected into that background. You know....like an Italian family around the table eating up pasta and wine with Polk speakers in the background with a Sinatra album on the shelf.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,245
    ...and through the window, fresh, unmarked burial mounds in a far corner of the back yard.
    I disabled signatures.
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    msg wrote: »
    ...and through the window, fresh, unmarked burial mounds in a far corner of the back yard.

    A fresh slab of concrete
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,003
    Naaah, we don't do that stuff anymore. Though a wood chipper out the window may add to the ambiance. lol
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