Legend L600 Review by Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity

"The Polk Audio Legend L600 speakers showed me just how much music I have been missing in my life. They produce prodigious bass with clever cabinet design, as opposed to complicated powered woofers, so you can get full-range sound without having to add and tweak subwoofers to your system. They are heavy, substantial, and easier to drive than their size suggests. And they look great to boot."

https://hometheaterhifi.com/reviews/speaker/floor-standing/polk-audio-legend-l600-speaker-review/

They seemed to really like it. (I personally love em :))

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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,015
    Thanks for the post, very interesting read would love to hear them
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,895
    "easier to drive than their size suggests"... hmm...

  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited April 2020
    That review is like a tour de force in how to write a professional review:

    1. Use an esoteric $700 amp to drive $4000 speakers
    2. Try something you’ve never tried before and don’t know how to do and proclaim that it’s the best thing you’ve ever heard
    3. By cheap cables on the fly that you have never tried before, don’t break them in, and again proclaim a marked audible improvement (over what exactly???)

    Don’t get me wrong, I did enjoy reading it and it did pique my interest in the speakers, but come on. Most of us don’t write professional reviews for a reason. We leave that to qualified folks like @Clipdat!
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,981
    rooftop59 wrote: »
    That review is like a tour de force in how to write a professional review:

    1. Use an esoteric $700 amp to drive $4000 speakers
    2. Try something you’ve never tried before and don’t know how to do and proclaim that it’s the best thing you’ve ever heard
    3. By cheap cables on the fly that you have never tried before, don’t break them in, and again proclaim a marked audible improvement (over what exactly???)

    Don’t get me wrong, I did enjoy reading it and it did pique my interest in the speakers, but come on. Most of us don’t write professional reviews for a reason. We leave that to qualified folks like @Clipdat!


    I didn't want to be the first to suggest...well, ya know.

    Then he had to educate himself and google up bi-amping and bi-wiring ?? Sorry folks, a professional reviewer he is not. Even though he wrote a glowing review of a Polk product, still....

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,895
    78 pounds each and are 4 feet tall.
    I thought the writer implied they were large.
    Certainly not my idea of a large loudspeaker. B)
  • displayname
    displayname Posts: 1,148
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    78 pounds each and are 4 feet tall.
    I thought the writer implied they were large.
    Certainly not my idea of a large loudspeaker. B)

    Imagine how he'd react to the L800 from the same line.
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,015
    Jeezus Kriste guys he liked the speakers. A glowing review. What’s with all the negativity all the time?
  • maxward
    maxward Posts: 1,581
  • shs
    shs Posts: 105
    Add height modules for surround sound; wider sweet spot because of more bass energy? Obviously not one of Secrets more experienced reviewers, but hopefully he will learn.
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,149

    I know I'm picking nits. But checking your math for correct dates and getting the product name correct should be easy.

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  • shs
    shs Posts: 105
    What I don't understand is why the Secrets Editor-In-Chief or one of the Co-Editors-In-Chief didn't catch the more obvious mistakes in this review.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,895
    ... and clean up the redundancies in it, too.


  • DarqueKnight
    DarqueKnight Posts: 6,765
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    "easier to drive than their size suggests"... hmm...
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    78 pounds each and are 4 feet tall.
    I thought the writer implied they were large.
    Certainly not my idea of a large loudspeaker. B)

    In a world dominated by ear buds and small bookshelf speakers, the L600s are relatively huge.

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  • gp4jesus
    gp4jesus Posts: 1,988
    edited April 2020
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    78 pounds each and are 4 feet tall.
    I thought the writer implied they were large.
    Certainly not my idea of a large loudspeaker. B)
    Hey! What’s big (tall?) to you? We’re probably on the same page. Me w/my 42” tall RTi A7s😊 though I could stand them to be a bit shorter.

    Side note: the L600s and the ‘A7s are similar. Obvious diff, the mid driver; tweeter I hope is cleaner filtered w/higher quality stuff. Both like “juice” in most any config you could dream up like the reviewer
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,895
    edited April 2020
    My Frankenaltecs* are 9 cubic foot vented enclosures and, fully loaded, weigh about 160 lbs each (Baltic birch plywood, not MDF). Rough measurements of the enclosures (not counting the MR horn/driver), ca. 47" h x 26" w x 19" d. I'd consider them fairly big, but I know plenty of folks with larger loudspeakers.

    There are those of us who prefer to let the loudspeakers do most of the work, as opposed to the amplifiers. B)

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  • jbr658
    jbr658 Posts: 1
    Instead of an actual rebuttal or clarity on the issue the reviewer presented. I see the same snark that resides in a twitter feed. What a waste