polk sda srs

98thumpin

what do you all think of the signature series sda srs speakers?

ESavinon

Great speakers,period .
I feel your question is leading somewhere. care to elaborate?

danger boy

98thumpin wrote:

what do you all think of the signature series sda srs speakers?

they suck!!!!!!!! :rolleyes: I'll never sell mine though.

schwarcw

Those are great speakers! Did you buy them or are you just gathering an opinion for a potential buy?

Tour2ma

Best rock speaker I've heard, Very good for almost everything else.

Only thing I do not like on them is solo piano.

heiney9

Tour2ma wrote:

Only thing I do not like on them is solo piano.

Why do you think that is? Cabinet resonance or the SDA presentation. Some piano doesn't sound right on my RTA's as well. I attribute it to a certain cabinet resonance that gives many of the notes in the middle odd harmonic overtones, a dissonance of sorts. Although on some recordings it sounds fine.

H9

Tour2ma

90+% SDA, Noel... If the piano is dual mic recorded, as most are, it's SDA'd to about 20' wide. Not exactly realistic.

When I pull the SDA IC, the soundstage collapses to the right width, but still there are better "piano speakers". It may be the SL2000 tweeters' FR hump.

In my collection I'd put the DQ-10's atop the list for piano.

heiney9

Piano is tough to reproduce and can be an indication of high performance speaker, but I find it has to be equally tough to record it correctly. Some piano recordings sound dreadful while others sound very good.

Pop artists like Tori Amos, Sarah MacLachlan, and even Elton John & Billy Joel don't seem to always get it right recording wise (with exceptions of course). I listen to David Lanz, Suzanne Ciani, Michael Jones, Michael Riesman, George Winston, etc. These typically are recorded with proper attention given to the process and they are soloists.

FWIW

H9

Sorry for the derail.........if you are thinking about buying SRS, stop thinking and buy them. You won't be disappointed.

BobMcG

Tour2ma wrote:

90+% SDA, Noel... If the piano is dual mic recorded, as most are, it's SDA'd to about 20' wide. Not exactly realistic.

Plus 1 here.

Tour2ma wrote:

...but still there are better "piano speakers".

Agreed. For my ears... Most anything from Martin Logan.

Tour2ma

I've not auditioned piano on ML's... Will do...

heiney9 wrote:

Pop artists like Tori Amos, Sarah MacLachlan, and even Elton John & Billy Joel don't seem to always get it right recording wise (with exceptions of course). I listen to David Lanz, Suzanne Ciani, Michael Jones, Michael Riesman, George Winston, etc. These typically are recorded with proper attention given to the process and they are soloists.

I have less of a problem with the pop pianists on SDA's. My issue is more with classical, e.g., Horowitz, Serkin, Ashkenazy, etc.

DAGLJAM6

Tour2ma wrote:

there are better "piano speakers".

I'd have to add Carvers to the list. Attack and decay are right up the "ribbon's" alley....fwiw

gammajo

Perhaps a dumb question. Please, what is the signature series. My 2.3's have Polks signature scrolled on the front of the grills - does that make them signatures, and if so how are they different from "regular' 2.3's

F1nut

There are no regular 2.3's, just SDA SRS 2.3's and the newer SDA SRS 2.3TL's. Yours are the signatures.

Tour2ma

Not dumb... we all didn't know at some point in time.

SRS (Signature Reference Series) was the tag on a whole line-up of SDA Polks, namely:

• SRS's/1.2's/1.2tl's
• SRS 2's
• 2.3's/2.3tl's
• 3.1's.

For all these model numbers there were no "non-SRS" speakers, just SRS's. So there were no "regular" 2.3's.

There were "regular" SDA's, however. These include the 1's (the 1, 1A, 1B and 1C) and the 2's (2, 2A and 2B).

The CRS's (Compact Reference Series) were tweeners, i.e., carried the "reference" label, but not Matt's autograph. There were two CRS models, the CRS replaced later by the CRS+.

Clear as mud?

Tour2ma

Doing the night shift with F1... Just like my early days here.

98thumpin

well know i dont have a set my dad does and let me tell you guys they sound awesome, he has a 32 bit graphic eq and all the music is very powerfull the highs are crisp and clear, and with the veloydyne subwoofer it produces thundering lows, when in the room you can feel the air move.

gammajo

Ah, so signature is shorthand for SDASRS - Mr Polk so proud of them that he put his signature right on them is what I remember now from the advertising - Thanks

98thumpin

the polk signature series sda-srs (stereo dismissel array - signature reference series)

F1nut

That would be dimensional.

Tour2ma

Rofl...

98thumpin

oh give me a break

F1nut

Try the spell check, top right corner.

Tour2ma

My apology, 98t... No offense intended, just hit me funny at the time.