Heard of a MW 6500 ?

VSAT88
VSAT88 Posts: 1,257
in Vintage Speakers
I am going to Atlanta to pick these up this weekend. The guy that has them said that the number on the back is 6500. I have heard of and have specs for the :
6501
6502
6503
6509
6510
6511
And the 6512
But not a 6500. I know they are very early version MW's as the baskets are not black and I know they came out of Monitor 10's with peerless tweeters. Any other info would be cool but not necessarily needed I guess.
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
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    All the early monitors had the MW6500.

    Driver: MW 6500 Driver's model #.
    Brand: Polk Driver's brand name.
    Fs: 31.0000 Hz (Free air resonance)
    Vas: 2.6486 ft^3 (Compliance volume)
    Qts: 0.2190 Total Q
    Qms: 1.3000 Mechanical Q
    Qes: 0.2640 Electrical Q
    Sd: 0.0130 M^2 (Piston area)
    Xmax: 3.1800 mm (Cone excursion, linear)
    Revc: 6.5000 ohms (DC resistance)
    Znom: 8.0000 ohms (Nominal impedance)
    Pmax: 35.0000 watts maximum rated power
    Home Theater/2 Channel:
    Front: SDA-2ATL forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/143984/my-2as-finally-finished-almost/p1
    Center: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/150760/my-center-channel-project/p1
    Surrounds & Rears: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/151647/my-surround-project/p1
    Sonicaps, Mills, RDO-194s-198s, Dynamat, Hurricane Nuts, Blackhole5
    Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV, Carver PM-600, SVS PB2-Plus Subwoofer

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  • Gardenstater
    Gardenstater Posts: 4,459
    edited February 2021 Answer ✓
    ^^Yeah what he said :) My '79 7B's have them. And yeah apparently the earlier 6500's were the silver basket ones and later ones were painted black.

    Those obviously (want to stay out of trouble lol) have a date of 5/16/80 and 5/07/80.
    George / NJ

    Polk 7B main speakers, std. mods+ (1979, orig owner)
    Martin Logan Dynamo sub w/6ft 14awg Power Cord
    Onkyo A-8017 integrated
    Logitech Squeezebox Touch Streamer w/EDO applet
    iFi nano iDSD DAC
    iPurifier3
    iDefender w/ iPower PS
    Custom Steve Wilson 1m UPOCC Interconnect
    iFi Mercury 0.5m OFHC continuous cast copper USB cable
    Custom Ribbon Speaker Cables, 5ft long, 4N Copper, 14awg, ultra low inductance
    Custom Vibration Isolation Speaker Stands and Sub Platform
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