LSi15 tease
Aaron
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Wes Phillips should be posting a review of the LSi15's to his website, onhifi.com, in the near future. He was the one who reviewed the LSi surround package a month or two ago. Here's an excerpt from a review of the Monarchy Audio SE-100 mono amplifiers (http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/monarchy_se100delux_followup.htm) where he mentions the LSi15's.
Enter the Polk LSi15s.
With a single pair of SE-100s Deluxes, the Polks sang like champions. I wasn't quite prepared for what they sounded like with two pairs. What you do is this: Take a pair of SE-100s and connect one of them to your preamp using either the single-ended RCA or the balanced XLR connection; take whichever input you didn't use and connect it to the same input of the other amp; now connect one amp to the tweeter/midrange binding posts of the speaker and the other amp to the woofer's binding posts. You have now passively biamped your loudspeakers.
The difference was not subtle. The Polks sounded even more authoritative, which I sort of expected. They also sounded even sweeter and purer through the highs and mids. More refined, if you like. And like it, I did!
Enter the Polk LSi15s.
With a single pair of SE-100s Deluxes, the Polks sang like champions. I wasn't quite prepared for what they sounded like with two pairs. What you do is this: Take a pair of SE-100s and connect one of them to your preamp using either the single-ended RCA or the balanced XLR connection; take whichever input you didn't use and connect it to the same input of the other amp; now connect one amp to the tweeter/midrange binding posts of the speaker and the other amp to the woofer's binding posts. You have now passively biamped your loudspeakers.
The difference was not subtle. The Polks sounded even more authoritative, which I sort of expected. They also sounded even sweeter and purer through the highs and mids. More refined, if you like. And like it, I did!
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i'll be looking forward to that review...:D