RTi 150's and ls 50's Cherrywood

Nisqually Dave
Nisqually Dave Posts: 220
edited April 2007 in Speakers
I have a chance to pick up these RTi150's for $270.00 , Just how good are they and is the price worth the 250 Mile round trip drive? And are they RTi 150's

Ineed to give him an answer if I am going to tak them, but have not heard anything about them, Quality or bad deal.

Thanks

Dave
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  • Nisqually Dave
    Nisqually Dave Posts: 220
    edited March 2007
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  • wz2p7j
    wz2p7j Posts: 840
    edited March 2007
    Check out some reviews here: http://www.audioreview.com/cat/speakers/floorstanding-speakers/polk-audio/PRD_171507_1594crx.aspx
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  • Nisqually Dave
    Nisqually Dave Posts: 220
    edited March 2007
    thanks for the reply I just posted this on another post:

    Hey thanks for the reply, I nedd a question answered when you say it needs lots of power, do you mean it needs to be played loud or do you mean that it can be played at a low level but need the power to do this.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2007
    Rti150's have a bad rep IMO, I own them and love them. But they need some serious WATTAGE to make them come ALIVE and we are not talking receiver anything here. They also been known to KILL a receiver so don't even think about hooking them up to a $500 AVR.

    Other then that never seen cherry 150's don't think those picture does them Justice.

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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,664
    edited April 2007
    Power hungry does not alway mean playing it loud but refers to being able to deliver watts on demand. Thats the reason most recommend 200 watts per channel, that should take care of most speaker demands.

    good luck
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  • kaisersose
    kaisersose Posts: 92
    edited April 2007
    My father has a set for his front left and right. I think they sound quite good. He does not have any type of amp hooked to them.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,793
    edited April 2007
    I would request larger pictures.

    I see something under the right base - not sure what it is.

    In the pic of the side, the grill looks warped.
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  • Nisqually Dave
    Nisqually Dave Posts: 220
    edited April 2007
    Well it turned out to be better than I thought, The speakers did turn out to be RTi 150's the surise was the LS's turned out to be LS 70's. I paid 350 for all of them and He drove a 150 miles to meet me for 50.00 in gas. Now what to do.

    I have now 2 ls70's 2 ls50's 2 ls/fx surrounds 2 rt150's 1rt1000p 1rt1000i plus i think 2 sa 6's?

    What would be the best setup HT
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited April 2007
    you've got quite a big collection of Polk towers there...

    keep similar models together to build a home theater.. so keep the ls's with the other LS's, keep the RTi's with the other RTi's for best performance.

    I've always wanted to own a pair of RTi150's, they don't come up for sale very often. you got a great deal with them. If you ever get tired of the RTi150's, lemme know. :)
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  • Nisqually Dave
    Nisqually Dave Posts: 220
    edited April 2007
    I can't believe how good they sound, I got the setup for the LS 70's but the 150's sound so good I set them as fronts and I actually moved the RTl000's as rears with Rt 400i a center i am not lacking in bass. now I just need to figure how to use LS/FX's in this setup My Yamaha amp seems to drive the 150's ok.
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