Determine Speakers

tebes
tebes Posts: 2
edited May 2008 in Vintage Speakers
I have a pair of 25 year old speakers that I used during college. I think they are monitor 5's or maybe 7's? One question: how can I tell what type of speakers they are? I don't see any identification numbers anywhere.

They sounded great but I blew out a mid on one of them. I'm putting together a home theater. Should I repair these speakers or just get new ones?

Thanks for any advice.

Todd
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited May 2008
    Repair them for sure. Polk Monitors are classic and sound great! There are a fair amount of people who still use them for 2 channel and HT.

    PolkSDA.com has a whole list of the different Polk speakers if you want to "polk around" and see if one of them matches what you have. Keep in mind that many of the Monitor series had sub-models.
    Jake
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  • dacoupedeville
    dacoupedeville Posts: 83
    edited May 2008
    The monitor 7 has a 10 inch radiator. Montor 5 had an 8. Both with one tweeter and one 6.5 midbass. Drivers are always popping up here and on ebay.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,734
    edited May 2008
    Pull out the bad driver, look at the back of it for the model number. It will begin with MW. Call Polk Customer Service and order a new one.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,970
    edited May 2008
    dacoupedeville wrote: »
    The monitor 7 has a 10 inch radiator. Montor 5 had an 8. Both with one tweeter and one 6.5 midbass. Drivers are always popping up here and on ebay.

    Actually (and not to muddy the waters) the ORIGINAL Polk Model 7 had an 8" PR. But they are not common. The cabinets of the 7s are considerably bigger than the 5s or 5jrs.

    The very original Models 7 and 10:

    earlypolkfamilyportrait.jpg

    A Monitor 5(B?):

    Monitor5.jpg

    A Monitor 7A:

    Polkmonitor7Asn4900.jpg

    An original Model 10:

    P1020559.jpg

    The midbass drivers of all of the above are 6-1/2" in diameter.

    Polk kindly gives dimensions of some of the legacy speakers at the links below:

    http://www.polkaudio.com/homeaudio/products/monitor5jr/
    http://www.polkaudio.com/homeaudio/products/monitor5/
    http://www.polkaudio.com/homeaudio/products/monitor7/
    http://www.polkaudio.com/homeaudio/products/monitor10/
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