Polk Vs Pinnacle Speakers

gadgetman
gadgetman Posts: 28
edited September 2005 in Speakers
HEY guys who puts out better theater speakers. polk or pinnacle
how about the digital speakers.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2005
    Oh. By digital are you talking about Polk's IP addressable speakers? Does another company have speakers like this out already?
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited September 2005
    I haven't owned "recent" Polk speakers, but have owned 3 different sets of past Polk's. I have also owned Pinnacle Classic Gold Towers (2001'ish) and liked them very much. Polk's and Pinnacles have more in common than not. The sound is very similar as best as I can remember my older Polk's. The recent pair of Pinnacle CGT's I had did have incredibly deep and clean bass, some of the best I've heard out of any speaker. I think it's attributred to Pinnacles patented triple bass port system.

    Build wise, again very close to one another. Take a listen and decide for yourself.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2005
    Interesting. I had never heard of Pinnacle before, but given such a good mini-review by you, I'll hafta keep them in mind in the future.

    Would you say the bass was even better than in your C9s? :eek:
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
    In Use
    PS3, Yamaha CDR-HD1300, Plex, Amazon Fire TV Gen 2
    Pioneer Elite VSX-52, Parasound HCA-1000A
    Klipsch RF-82ii, RC-62ii, RS-42ii, RW-10d
    Epson 8700UB
    In Storage
    [Home Audio]
    Rotel RCD-02, Yamaha KX-W900U, Sony ST-S500ES, Denon DP-7F
    Pro-Ject Phono Box MKII, Parasound P/HP-850, ASL Wave 20 monoblocks
    Klipsch RF-35, RB-51ii
    [Car Audio]
    Pioneer Premier DEH-P860MP, Memphis 16-MCA3004, Boston Acoustic RC520
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited September 2005
    Deeper reaching, yes. I think the CGT's (aren't offered anymore unfortunately) were rated at 25Hz @ -3db. Pinnacles "Diaduct" bass porting system was very effective. In 1997, Julian Hirsch of then "Stereo Review" magazine was extremely impressed with the CGT's and noted that they measured the lowest amount of bass distortion he had ever seen.

    Pinnacle is a family owned business in upstate New York; they had very good customer service, but I'm not too impressed with their latest offerings. Pinnacle used to be a strictly 2-channel speaker builder, but like many others, they're caught up in the HT thing and the speaker designs are suffering.
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