New Polk Audio "Legend" Speaker Series shown at 2019 Hong Kong High End Audio Video Show

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    I thought ‘twitter’ was a motor mouth twit.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,406
    edited August 2019
    BlueFox wrote: »
    I thought ‘twitter’ was a motor mouth twit.

    No that's a twerp B)
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,669
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    BlueFox wrote: »
    I thought ‘twitter’ was a motor mouth twit.

    No that's a twerp B)

    Or a politician...
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,965
    edited August 2019
    A twerp, a person whom f-arts in the bathtub and bites the bubbles.
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • JayCee
    JayCee Posts: 1,501
    edited August 2019
    halen wrote: »
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    What's a twitter?

    Sir John. It is the modern version of T W A T

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  • nooshinjohn
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    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    A twerp, a person whom f-arts in the bathtub and bites the bubbles.

    And you know this from experience? ;)
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,293
    edited August 2019
    Got this in an email today. Something wicked this way comes,,,
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 13,061
    edited August 2019
    Yeah, it also said "is your mancave ready for this?"

    *groan*

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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,293
    Perhaps they'll glue a ruby to it! OH!
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 13,061
    Now you're just reaching.

    *double groan*
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited August 2019
    la2vegas wrote: »
    Clipdat wrote: »
    Yeah, it also said "is your mancave ready for this?"

    *groan*

    ok52v25j0afi.png

    Although some might have put them there, I don't believe that the LSIM series were delegated as man cave speakers. :/

    Well I have a number of educated, relatively affluent married friends that love music, and exactly one of them has tower speakers in the living area (my bro in law). None of the rest even have bookshelf speakers. One has in wall, one a sound bar, the rest Bluetooth speakers. So, ya know, know your audience and all that jazz...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,484
    Hermitism wrote: »
    Got this in an email today. Something wicked this way comes,,,
    j8idlvadld45.gif

    They shoulda played the opening section of Also Sprach Zarathustra behind the animation.

    :)
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,293
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Hermitism wrote: »
    Got this in an email today. Something wicked this way comes,,,
    j8idlvadld45.gif

    They shoulda played the opening section of Also Sprach Zarathustra behind the animation.

    :)
    I did a google search a few years back of the 50 best classical music songs and that was one of them. I went to my local library and was able to collect a vast majority of those 50 songs and made a 2 CD compilation album of classical music. Whenever I have a lady friend over for sexy time, I play that song for the humor. It softens the mood. After that I always hear Simon Cowell's buzzer sound.
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  • rooftop59
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    Hermitism wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Hermitism wrote: »
    Got this in an email today. Something wicked this way comes,,,
    j8idlvadld45.gif

    They shoulda played the opening section of Also Sprach Zarathustra behind the animation.

    :)
    I did a google search a few years back of the 50 best classical music songs and that was one of them. I went to my local library and was able to collect a vast majority of those 50 songs and made a 2 CD compilation album of classical music. Whenever I have a lady friend over for sexy time, I play that song for the humor. It softens the mood. After that I always hear Simon Cowell's buzzer sound.

    Lady friend?!?
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,293
    rooftop59 wrote: »
    Hermitism wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Hermitism wrote: »
    Got this in an email today. Something wicked this way comes,,,
    j8idlvadld45.gif

    They shoulda played the opening section of Also Sprach Zarathustra behind the animation.

    :)
    I did a google search a few years back of the 50 best classical music songs and that was one of them. I went to my local library and was able to collect a vast majority of those 50 songs and made a 2 CD compilation album of classical music. Whenever I have a lady friend over for sexy time, I play that song for the humor. It softens the mood. After that I always hear Simon Cowell's buzzer sound.

    Lady friend?!?
    It's a term of endearment!
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,084
    rooftop59 wrote: »
    Lady friend?!?

    It's his nickname for me. I wish he'd stop putting our business out into public though.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,293
    Hey Boo!!
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,439
    Nightfall wrote: »
    rooftop59 wrote: »
    Lady friend?!?

    It's his nickname for me. I wish he'd stop putting our business out into public though.
    Hermitism wrote: »
    Hey Boo!!

    Here's yous guys song... ;)

    https://youtu.be/nf0oXY4nDxE
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    Oh thank God... I wasn't lied to. The silhouette speaks volumes. Y'all are gonna love what's coming.
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  • Polkitup2
    Polkitup2 Posts: 1,637
    Not much longer....
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,358
    Polkitup2 wrote: »
    Not much longer....

    It looks like the clock has stopped. :'(
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  • K_M
    K_M Posts: 1,628
    edited August 2019
    Nightfall wrote: »
    PolkAudioJoJo wrote: »
    All this talk about SDA makes me want to puke. Speaker technology has improved since then, get over it.

    A lot of people here like what SDA does to the sound stage, get over it.

    Probably quite true what you say, but this is a small forum.

    Several dozen people on a forum that is dedicated TO the brand in question, is simply too small a sampling of the audio world overall to draw any reasonable consensus of the appeal of a 30+ year old speaker design.

    Again not disagreeing with you, but there are simply not a lot of people here.


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  • K_M
    K_M Posts: 1,628
    edited August 2019
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,283
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    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."

    President of Club Polk

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  • WLDock
    WLDock Posts: 3,073
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    They shoulda played the opening section of Also Sprach Zarathustra behind the animation. :)
    LOL, right! Maybe have the younger generation playing the old piece in a BIG way..... have the '13 Carolina Crown Drum Corps boombastic performance in the background.

    BIG Sound, Youthful Movement and Expression, playing the old Legendary tune, with a modern twist!

    https://youtu.be/jTIhOFF2P5k?t=81

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  • RandyCroissant
    RandyCroissant Posts: 475
    Curious is it possible the engineers at Polk have figured out a single driver SDA instead of the usual side by side configuration hmmm.
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,554
    edited August 2019
    RandyCroissant wrote: »
    Curious is it possible the engineers at Polk have figured out a single driver SDA instead of the usual side by side configuration hmmm.

    Polk would not need to as it's already been done for the last few decades. It's possible to do something similar to the crosstalk cancellation concept with single drivers in regular stereo speakers through electronics. A Swiss company called Weiss Engineering has been doing some DSP work for DACs in this area lately but the concept itself is not new at all and others have tinkered with crosstalk cancellation:

    https://www.weiss.ch/products/dac501-dac502

    But, Polk's implementation through SDA speakers has always relied on acoustics rather than electronics. They did put a type of SDA in a few soundbars and used DSP for those, but that is something different than stereo. The space between the stereo and dimensional midwoofers on SDA stereo speakers was critically important for the SDA function. One could certainly make the case that Polk's implementation of crosstalk cancellation has been superior to anything else yet produced, but it is possible something that works better and with greater flexibility may be in the works somewhere given the vast improvements in signal processing technology in the last couple decades.

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  • tonyb
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    K_M wrote: »
    Nightfall wrote: »
    PolkAudioJoJo wrote: »
    All this talk about SDA makes me want to puke. Speaker technology has improved since then, get over it.

    A lot of people here like what SDA does to the sound stage, get over it.

    Probably quite true what you say, but this is a small forum.

    Several dozen people on a forum that is dedicated TO the brand in question, is simply too small a sampling of the audio world overall to draw any reasonable consensus of the appeal of a 30+ year old speaker design.

    Again not disagreeing with you, but there are simply not a lot of people here.


    A reasonable consensus is only needed by the amount of people that own them or have owned them. Percentage wise, think of Ferrari....not a lot of people own one, but we can get a good consensus from those that do, even though they represent a fraction of car owners.
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  • BDT
    BDT Posts: 212
    Just digging into this.....that said, based on historical experience with the LSi/LSiM launches...they all turned out to be good speakers.

    If F1 isn't dogging them......they are legit.

    BDT
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,308
    edited August 2019
    RandyCroissant wrote: »
    Curious is it possible the engineers at Polk have figured out a single driver SDA instead of the usual side by side configuration hmmm.

    The SDA properties are now done electronically by an algorithm as seen in many of the (surround) sound bars. I doubt we will ever see a purely acoustical type SDA. The crossover is complicated and the shear size of the speaker is not the current trend.

    We can hope for a hybrid as was talked about at the last Polkfest held at HQ before Matt left. An acoustical and electronic approach. That was what...….10 years ago now??? That ship has probably sailed.

    *IF* SDA has legs beyond sound bars, it will almost certainly be of the electronic type rather than pure acoustical.

    So to answer your question; yes...it's been done (not a single speaker, but a few small speakers).

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