Polk Monitor 9's?
warlocks1
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According to Russman, these are Polk Monitor 9's. The drivers are covered in cat hair and the dust caps are all pushed in. They were covered in white vinyl which I removed. The posts are on the bottom of the speakers. I haven't listened to them yet. I also included a picture of the logo which was attached to a broken grill he gave me. There are no grills left. I pulled one of the drivers and it didn't say Polk anywhere on it.
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It was a speaker basically assembled with spare parts. If you think they sound good, when you do hook them up, you may want to get your ears checked.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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They look homemade to me.
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Mark, do you know when they were made? Were they covered in a vinyl materail?
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White vinyl??? The Polk 9's at the Rathskeller at Johns Hopkins (in 1976!) were covered in white vinyl (EDIT: well, white something -- I thought it was a laminate, like Formica). Perhaps this was a "stock" Polk "alternative finish"... or perhaps these are the very same Polk 9's I listened to thirty years ago? The mind boggles.
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The ones that were "donated" to the Polk Museum were also white.
Jeff - I have no idea what years apply to that model. It's somewhere in another thread...just not sure where.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. -
the Polk Audio badge is kinda cool. is it engraved metal?PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
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The ones donated weren't white, they were a doodoo brown vinyl. The *single* 9 cabinet that was at Polk HQ already was white.
Early 70's for the 9's. Polk was going to make a Bose 901 knockoff (the Bozo), but when that fell through (legalities) they had a lot of 4 inch drivers left over to use, hence the 9.Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service. -
Oh ok...that's why I remembered the white.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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Thanks for the info. Now how do I get the tons of cat hair of the sticky drivers?
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I have a pair of model/monitor 9's I have 3 of the 4 covers but they do not have the Polk badge on them . they work great for me .I have to get them restored or maybe interested in selling them . I understand they are pretty hard to find so I am undecided about what I am going to do with them .
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I am sure it's in this thread, or elsewhere -- the original Nines, with "no electrical crossovers", using Motorola piezoelectric tweeters, are definitely not what one would call "world class" (although, arguably, they might have some archival value as the first consumer product from Polk AFAIK).
The Model 9A, prudently, exchanged the spitty (unless appropriately fitted with - gasp - an electric crossover network of sorts) Motorola tweeter for the venerable Peerless silk dome (used in the earlier versions of the Models 4, 5, 7 and 10). The 9A is not a bad sounding loudspeaker at all in my assessment: most of the heavy lifting is handled by four CTS-made 4" pincushion frame "extended range" drivers that are actually pretty nice. The 9A is even fairly sensitive. They sound pretty darned good driven by a fairly low power vacuum tube amp (e.g., an EICO HF-81 push-pull EL84 @ ca. 12 wpc).
Just sayin'...
PS. I don't think any of us think it's a good idea to post a "may be interested in selling them post" on these fourms (just FYI).
