Polk Audio Tonearm

TroyD
TroyD Posts: 13,077
edited April 2007 in 2 Channel Audio
This may have been brought up before...

I'm looking for any info that anyone might have (ahem, HQ Polk) about the tonearm that Polk made.

Anyone? Anyone?

BDT
I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited April 2007
    Hello Troy,
    I believe it was the same as the Mayware Formula IV tonearm, a uni-pivot, low mass damped tone arm. It would sound best with high compliance cartridges and requires a bit of patience to setup properly. A big hit was to use it with a Kenwood turntable that had a high density synthetic marble bass and a Sanus cartridge.
    Regards, Ken
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited April 2007
    "From about 1977 to 1982, Polk marketed a COUPLE of tonearms. Couple of TURNTABLES too. I mentioned this previously, a long time ago, but nobody ever listens. I'm not telling you the names of all the models again, so there.


    George Grand (of the Jersey Grand's)"
    Never Forget
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,802
    edited April 2007
    The cartridge referred to above was the Sonus... I believe it was Peter Pritchard's (ADC) last foray into phono carts. I used a Sonus Silver on my Philips 308, 'way back when. TOTL was the Sonus Blue. Nice cartridges, but high-compliance and rather persnickety. A Formula 4 would be a good choice for them Actually, I think Sonus might've distributed the Formula 4 for a while, too (?).
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  • cmy330go
    cmy330go Posts: 2,341
    edited April 2007
    Does anyone here have any of the old Polk TT gear? Pictures perhaps?
    HT
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