Help me find the sound

hydrostream
hydrostream Posts: 549
edited January 2007 in Speakers
Ok i have a onkyo 790 i got a set of infinity primus 360s
for christmas looking to upgrade the sound.
I use it mostly for music Rock and heavy metal and the
360s sounded like crap to me any way.
So i hooked up my sons polk R300s and they sounded b
better than the 360s.
So i sent the 360s back and now looking for towers
that will rock with a small buget of about $500.00.
Any help would be great.
Thanks jerry
Main- GTP-500II,GDC-600,GFA-555II and energy C-500s
Basement-Audiosource pre/tuner,GFA-545,Onkyo
DX-1400 and RTI10s
Garage-GTP-450,onkyo M-282 and R50s with RTi55
drivers and X-overs.
My baby 18' V-king Mod VP with a merc 2.4 BP.
KTM 620 Supermoto
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited January 2007
    If you want to play loud Rock music then the RTi line will do this, if you can do used the 500.00 will go quite a ways. Polk has done some outstanding bookshelf speakers in the RTi line, such as the RT55i and the RTi 6, 35i and so on. You can find them on Audiogon.com and of course ebay. As for towers, the RTi 150's are big beefy speakers, they are all pretty good, the RTi line is crisp on the top end and needs volume to really sound full.

    RT1
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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited January 2007
    For rock the monitor line is awesome. (not the new monitor line that you see at circut city - the old monitor line like the 10b's that were from the 80's.) You can usually pick them up pretty cheap (couple hundred bucks) and they sound great for rock. If you find them a little to bright you can replace the tweeters in them for new silk dome tweeters from polk for about another $100. (for 2 tweets).

    Just saying don't be afraid to look at some of the older lines from Polk, they were really great.

    Michael
    Mains.............Polk LSi15 (Cherry)
    Center............Polk LSiC (Crossover upgraded)
    Surrounds.......Polk LSi7 (Gloss Black - wood sides removed and crossovers upgraded)
    Subwoofers.....SVS 25-31 CS+ and PC+ (both 20hz tune)
    Pre\Pro...........NAD T163 (Modded with LM4562 opamps)
    Amplifier.........Cinepro 3k6 (6-channel, 500wpc@4ohms)
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