Help with Polk RM Series 2 bookshelves
PioneerRich
Posts: 12
Hi thought I'd ask in the forums here a couple of questions about my speakers. I had posted a topic similar but geared towards the system set up, and I'm posting here to hopefully find out more about the speakers themselves.
An old friend gave me some speakers 7years ago from his "moving sale".
I believe it was a Polk surround system that came together. I don't have any documentation on them, and I don't think they're listed in the speakers on Polk's site anymore. I think he got them 8 to 10 years ago.
I know I have two M1 rears, and the labels on the back of the fronts and center say RM Series II Shielded Sattelite. I don't know the subwoofer, and I'd rather not pull it out of the shelf as it's set up via the speaker wire method with my receiver on a shelf above it. I'd have to unhook everything to get at it.
I do know that it is an 8inch, it only has a volume knob on the back, and I "think" the rca (red and white) line level input, and of course the speaker connections.
Does anyone know what speaker system this would have been and any documentation on it?
I'm wondering more about the subwoofer, and if it's line in is "filtered" or not? Eventually, I would like to upgrade the speakers and also upgrade to "seperates" and was wondering if I could save buying a sub immediately or not? I would like to hook up the "new" system via the sub cable method and not the speaker method, and is that possible with my current sub?
When I first hooked the sub out from my receiver to one line in on the back, I got very poor sub response, however, it does very well hooked up via the speaker method.
I'm sure the sub out on the receiver is okay because I took it back to the store when I first purchased it (thinking my receiver was broken) and they tested it on a sub in the store and it did fine. It's (please don't laugh) a Pioneer D709S and it's done okay for me with my current setup. At least it's high current......not that it means much maybe with this receiver?
I'd also like to thank Eric Wong with customer service who has answered a couple of my eamil questions within a day, very good job. Thought I'd post here and see what the members had to say on this.....
Thanks,
Richard
An old friend gave me some speakers 7years ago from his "moving sale".
I believe it was a Polk surround system that came together. I don't have any documentation on them, and I don't think they're listed in the speakers on Polk's site anymore. I think he got them 8 to 10 years ago.
I know I have two M1 rears, and the labels on the back of the fronts and center say RM Series II Shielded Sattelite. I don't know the subwoofer, and I'd rather not pull it out of the shelf as it's set up via the speaker wire method with my receiver on a shelf above it. I'd have to unhook everything to get at it.
I do know that it is an 8inch, it only has a volume knob on the back, and I "think" the rca (red and white) line level input, and of course the speaker connections.Does anyone know what speaker system this would have been and any documentation on it?
I'm wondering more about the subwoofer, and if it's line in is "filtered" or not? Eventually, I would like to upgrade the speakers and also upgrade to "seperates" and was wondering if I could save buying a sub immediately or not? I would like to hook up the "new" system via the sub cable method and not the speaker method, and is that possible with my current sub?
When I first hooked the sub out from my receiver to one line in on the back, I got very poor sub response, however, it does very well hooked up via the speaker method.
I'm sure the sub out on the receiver is okay because I took it back to the store when I first purchased it (thinking my receiver was broken) and they tested it on a sub in the store and it did fine. It's (please don't laugh) a Pioneer D709S and it's done okay for me with my current setup. At least it's high current......not that it means much maybe with this receiver?
I'd also like to thank Eric Wong with customer service who has answered a couple of my eamil questions within a day, very good job. Thought I'd post here and see what the members had to say on this.....
Thanks,
Richard