2017 CES
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Thought you guys might like to see some shots from CES.
We debuted the Classic Brown Walnut finish for the Signature Series, a new soun bar called the Signa S1 that is under $200 and only 2" tall, and a new car audio line called MM1 and new subwoofers for our DB+ line.
We debuted the Classic Brown Walnut finish for the Signature Series, a new soun bar called the Signa S1 that is under $200 and only 2" tall, and a new car audio line called MM1 and new subwoofers for our DB+ line.
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Very excited for the new mobile audio lines. I've had the current MM series subwoofers for a couple years and have loved it.
Have specs been released for the new subwoofer lines?Just a dude doing dude-ly things
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Was hoping they'd talk more about their DTS PlayFi stuff. I had hopes it would be the democratized Sonos-killer.
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codycatalist wrote: »Very excited for the new mobile audio lines. I've had the current MM series subwoofers for a couple years and have loved it.
Have specs been released for the new subwoofer lines?
@codycatalist The specs haven't been released yet. It launches officially in the spring so stay tuned for more info.
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Was hoping they'd talk more about their DTS PlayFi stuff. I had hopes it would be the democratized Sonos-killer.
Ah well...
@bingmobo can you tell us a little about what you were hoping for? The system has been and will continue to evolve via software updates. We did a hardware rev to the SB1 called the SB1+ that added ethernet and the ability to have wireless surrounds, so things continue to progress.
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It appears the bezel on the walnut version is gray instead of black and the outriggers are definitely black instead of chrome like the black ash version.Political Correctness'.........defined
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Was hoping they'd talk more about their DTS PlayFi stuff. I had hopes it would be the democratized Sonos-killer.
Ah well...
Have you looked into Bluesound? There's quite a few members here running the Node 2, which I am pretty certain is going to be my next audio purchase. They're owned by NAD which I think is a Canadian company (?), which is a democracy. Unless you meant a US based company specifically.afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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Finally getting around to replacing the stock stuff on my '96 F-350 this spring. It appears my choices are expanding.2 Channel "Polk" Room:
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Music Hall mmf 7.3 TT with Ortofon Bronze
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Brown walnut looks goodMagico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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Finally getting around to replacing the stock stuff on my '96 F-350 this spring. It appears my choices are expanding.
Cool. With MM1 and DB+ we really focused on reducing depth while maintaining output. A lot of cars have much thinner door panels now and we wanted to make the fit as easy as possible. The MM1's have a nice little design feature. The grille actually rotates so the dark metallic trim pieces face the same way in your car. On one side they will expose a MM1 logo, on the other they expose a Polk logo. Here is my original sketch for them.
You can see how the design evolved, but the gesture remains. We moved the cone to a dark brushed metallic and added the indices reminiscent of a high end timepiece, or tachometer. We added form to the grille to make it more rigid yet thinner to allow more acoustic transparency. We made the fasteners hidden beneath the bezel. These are all things that evolve during the process.
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Very nice.Pio Elete Pro 520
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I'll make some coffee while the pictures load and get back to this later....
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you using Net Zero? :-)
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I like the look of the Signatures with the wood finish - nice touch.
The exhibit layout is clean - looks good.
Is that a picture of the rear of the S20 with the port? I don't get the decision to go with that design route with the flexibility in placement of the RTiA 'power port' design.
As for download speeds - this is the only audio website I frequent where the pictures take FOREVER to finish downloading.
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That's a wireless sub with the visible port not an S20, which has a power port.Political Correctness'.........defined
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Mike, what about the bezel color on the walnut clad S series, is it gray? Why are the outriggers black instead of chrome?Political Correctness'.........defined
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Love the brown. And an interesting fact is, I love brown, have a brown dog, brown haired girl with brown eyes. Yup brown is good.2 channel:
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^^ Cleveland Browns fan?
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Mike, what about the bezel color on the walnut clad S series, is it gray? Why are the outriggers black instead of chrome?
I mentioned this in the other thread actually:
http://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/174277/polk-signature-series-official-discussion/p5
"I remember a few of you asking if we would be offering some other finishes in Signature. This is a new brown walnut finish we announced today. The baffle is a matte graphite and the trim plate is a high gloss graphite that almost feels like opaque glass. Drivers are the same titanium finish."
But to expand on it a bit, the feet on the black CMF are the same matte titanium finish as the drivers (I rarely ever use chrome) because they looked too heavy in the black on black, the titanium finish emphasizes the radius more which goes away in the shadows on the black. I t also makes it feel a little more sophisticated and I think adds to the impression that they are a higher price points. On the classic brown walnut CMF they are a metallic graphite to match the baffle. We experimented with it in both the graphite and the matte titanium and thought it worked a little better this way but we were splitting hairs at that point.
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Ok Mike, what you are calling graphite I'm calling gray and I'm sorry, but it doesn't look good. Black would have worked much better.
Political Correctness'.........defined
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Thanks for the tip... I believe you said the same when I first showed the pictures go the black version. You should see it in person.
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You may be right, perhaps a trick of the light? I've seen the black versions, the bezel appears black to me. Are you saying the bezel is the same color on the black and walnut versions?
I also saw the walnut version (pre-production?) at the MD facility. They definitely had gray bezels and gray grills.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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@F1nut the bezel and the baffle are the same graphite grey, the baffle is just matte and the bezel is high gloss. Same finishes as on the black washed walnut color way, but both grey if that makes sense.
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Ok Mike thanks, guess it's the lighting.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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