New Polk In-Walls for $4,500 a pair.
Larry Chanin
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In appears that Polk Audio is going high-tech. According to an article in the current issue of Home Theater Magazine, they've teamed up with NetStreams to implement multiroom audio systems that employ NetSteam's DigiLinX system which uses Internet Protocols to distribute audio via CAT-5e cabling.
Larry
PS: A review of the standard LC265i I-Wall speaker is also in the current issue of Home Theater.
NetStreams and Polk Audio have teamed up to introduce the first IP-addressable loundspeakers that work in conjunction with the DigiLinX system. The LCi-p Series features audiophile-grade in-wall and in-ceiling loundspeakers, each of which is a flush-mounted speaker featuring a digital amplifier, electronic crossovers, DSP circuitry, TCP/IP control modules.
LCi-p speakers will range in price from $2,500 to $4,500 per pair.
Larry
PS: A review of the standard LC265i I-Wall speaker is also in the current issue of Home Theater.
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Jeez Louise!Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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So...
How many wishes do you get? I mean...
For that kinda dough, that out-reaches the MSRP of their best towers................it gives wishes, right?- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit. -
One of the Polk exec's was here talking about fancy new IP based technology. It's not so much teh speakers that cost the money but the gear needed to do the "sound over the internet" deal. Cool technology though and plenty of bandwidth to transfer better than CD quality sound. The same technology could be applied to wireless networking too. It could end up eliminating the need for speaker cables. Granted that'd probably not happen but the potetial with this technology is seriously that big.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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Originally posted by Vr3MxStyler2k3
So...
How many wishes do you get? I mean...
For that kinda dough, that out-reaches the MSRP of their best towers................it gives wishes, right?
Well, to echo Jstas reaction I can't even image what the rest of the ancillary distribution gear is going to cost. Then consider that this is a whole-house application. Just think how much dough we're talking about as we add pairs of speakers in every room priced at least $2,500!
But... on the other hand obviously this is geared for the high-end, custom install market where $4,500 speakers may be considered midrange to those folks, and merely a drop in the bucket of the overall installation labor costs.
Hey... If you've got it flaunt it, and folks with that kind a moola don't need no damn wishes!
Larry -
You guys are like sooooo three months ago!
http://clubpolk.polkaudio.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22106&highlight=lcip -
Larry is an older guy Fireshoes....you know the memory is the first to go.CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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Great, so now there are NIC's in speakers... Just use a $40 switchbox for christs sakes.
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Originally posted by dorokusai
Larry is an older guy Fireshoes....you know the memory is the first to go.
Hi Mark,
Thank goodness its only my memory that's first to go!!
Well, I guess I'm a little late on this breaking news, but it seems most club members missed the price tag buried in the press release.
Larry -
I'm just giving you a hard time anyway. Your post had some new info anyway, like the LCi review in Home Theater mag. I'm looking foward to reading it, as I have not heard them yet. Probably some more good pub for Polk I would guess.
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Originally posted by fireshoes
I'm just giving you a hard time anyway. Your post had some new info anyway, like the LCi review in Home Theater mag. I'm looking foward to reading it, as I have not heard them yet. Probably some more good pub for Polk I would guess.
Hi fireshoes,
No offence taken. I knew that you and Mark were just providing this "older guy" some good-natured ribbing.
The review will certainly provide you with a more thorough analysis than I did in my other posting.
Getting back to this posting, its interesting to note how much of a mark-up there is just adding the digital gear to a standard LC265i in-wall. A pair of LC265i list for $1,200 a pair. The LC265i-p's list for $4,500. I suppose to be fair we'd have to back out the cost of a two channels of decent analog amplification, but still that seem to be a big increase.
Larry -
With all that is electronics, the bottom will fall out of their **** when/if they try to ever be resold.
Whomever buys those had better be in love with them for a LONG time......that price is ridiculous considering it's a PAIR of speakers.......with (as Larry noted) a $3300 upcharge for the electronics. Screw that.....comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
