Audioholics reviews the Legend L200 and L400 - with measurements
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https://www.audioholics.com/bookshelf-speaker-reviews/polk-l200-l400
Great review overall but what i found extremely interesting is their take on the L400 center. Here's a cut and paste of a portion of their conclusion:
"Let’s now talk about the strengths of the L200 and L400 speakers. As was mentioned above, the overall performance is quite good. The L200s have a nice tonal balance along with a terrific soundstage that you could just disappear into. They also have very good dynamic range capability and bass extension for their bookshelf speaker form. For many musical tastes, the addition of a subwoofer is not needed. The L400 center speaker has to rank among the best I have ever tested. At $1,800, it’s an expensive center speaker, but it does everything extremely well. It totally avoids the off-axis problems of conventional center speaker designs, even three-way center speakers. It’s a center speaker that is so good it could easily be used as a left or right front speaker as well and would very likely make a great choice for a stereo pair. There is no reason that you couldn’t use three L400s for the entirel200 outdoors5.jpg front stage speaker setup if space permitted or in a large 3-section entertainment unit."
These guys are mostly home theater guys and they mentioned "The Polk L400 center speaker has to rank among the best I have ever tested."
I liked this part which really made me think:
"Many people buy speakers based on the left and right fronts, but for surround sound mixes, it makes far more sense to choose the speaker set based on the center speaker. It is the crux of modern sound mixes. The L400 is an outstanding center speaker that dodges the pitfalls of traditional center speaker design through flat-out intelligent engineering."
Great review overall but what i found extremely interesting is their take on the L400 center. Here's a cut and paste of a portion of their conclusion:
"Let’s now talk about the strengths of the L200 and L400 speakers. As was mentioned above, the overall performance is quite good. The L200s have a nice tonal balance along with a terrific soundstage that you could just disappear into. They also have very good dynamic range capability and bass extension for their bookshelf speaker form. For many musical tastes, the addition of a subwoofer is not needed. The L400 center speaker has to rank among the best I have ever tested. At $1,800, it’s an expensive center speaker, but it does everything extremely well. It totally avoids the off-axis problems of conventional center speaker designs, even three-way center speakers. It’s a center speaker that is so good it could easily be used as a left or right front speaker as well and would very likely make a great choice for a stereo pair. There is no reason that you couldn’t use three L400s for the entirel200 outdoors5.jpg front stage speaker setup if space permitted or in a large 3-section entertainment unit."
These guys are mostly home theater guys and they mentioned "The Polk L400 center speaker has to rank among the best I have ever tested."
I liked this part which really made me think:
"Many people buy speakers based on the left and right fronts, but for surround sound mixes, it makes far more sense to choose the speaker set based on the center speaker. It is the crux of modern sound mixes. The L400 is an outstanding center speaker that dodges the pitfalls of traditional center speaker design through flat-out intelligent engineering."
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Good read, thanks for posting.Dan
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Cool. They really are 6 ohm loudspeakers, too!
andSensitivity measurements put the L200s at 86.3 dB for 2.83v at 1 meter and the L400 at 87.6 dB for 2.83v at 1 meter...
Nice to see these data; thanks for sharing that link.
