1994 S10's - 4ohm or 8ohm?

Ronman45

I have two pairs of vintage Polk S10's I bought back in 1995. The 8" mid-woofers are starting to fail, one in each pair. Midwest Speaker in MN has drop-in replacements available in both 4 & 8 ohm versions for the MW8000. I'm pretty attached to them and I'm weighing investing the (approximately) $300.00 to replace all four, or (gulp) buying a pair of Reserve 700's. I'm driving the pair in my living room with a Marantz ND8006/SR5004/MM7025 and a Martin Logan Dynamo 1000 sub for stereo listening only, which is where I would put the R700's. The other pair are in my den/home theatre mated to a Marantz SR7001. I pulled the subject woofers out of the cabinets and there is no indication they are 4 ohm (or 8 ohm for that matter) but, I vaguely remember reading somewhere they are 8 ohm. I'm just trying to avoid ordering replacement speakers with incorrect impedance. The MM7025 runs fairly cool, so I'm pretty sure they are indeed 8 ohm, just trying to make sure...
Thanks in advance for any help out there.

pitdogg2

Easy enough to find out with a multimeter. Yes the Reserves are great speakers, I'd put my money in that direction IMHO.

F1nut

Polk woofer models include MW8000, MW8002, MW8003, MW8004, MW8100, MW8103 and many more.

It's a one model fits all deal just like they are doing for the Polk MWxxxx models. IMO, that's not a good thing.

Ronman45

Easy enough to find out with a multimeter. Yes the Reserves are great speakers, I'd put my money in that direction IMHO.[/quote]

Ronman45

Don't know why I didn't think of that. I invoke the "old age" excuse even though I have only been retired a little over 4 years...

Thanks for the input guys, I'm a "newbie" here on the forum and the help is much appreciated.