Polk Audio Monitor 100?

MrGlobe

So I got an awesome deal on a pair of Polk Monitor 100's this week on CL. I only paid $750 for the pair. I wasn't able to find them anywhere on Polk's website, but I assume thats just cause they're only made in small quantities.

Anywho, they sounds great and look even better. Maybe I'll write up a review soon.

What do you guys think?

leroyjr1

Monitor 60's + monitor 40's = nice.

concealer404

Whoa..... never seen those....

RuSsMaN

What? You never saw one speaker stacked on top of another?

Burningcoals

I saw a pair of Monitor 140's the other day, it was insane.

To OP; those must be freaking loud considering you are practically wearing them as earphones.

cnh

MrGlobe wrote: »

So I got an awesome deal on a pair of Polk Monitor 100's this week on CL. I only paid $750 for the pair. I wasn't able to find them anywhere on Polk's website, but I assume thats just cause they're only made in small quantities.

Anywho, they sounds great and look even better. Maybe I'll write up a review soon.

What do you guys think?

I bet if Polk offered a 100 series like that...perhaps with some design mods because those tweets my interfere with each other, or not? They'd definitely sell....in any case....they look awesome...you can hardly see the seams!

cnh

leroyjr1

Forget the speakers, who's the chick on the monitor?

MrGlobe

Haha, I don't sit that close when I listen thats just where the plug-in is

And yes they do look sweet, even more so in real life

Leroy, thats my girlfriend Adriana. She modeled with Victoria's sSecret, again the picture does not do her justice

I'm not sure why, But I think the imaging is better on these than my 70s downstairs. It really is crazy to listen to these speakers set up like this. I never would have thought I could get sound like this from these speakers. They definitely have better low end output than either speaker alone. I mostly set these up as a joke, but I'm finding myself listening to them a bunch. I think it has to do with the 60s being pretty good stands for the 40s. Plus one speaker being front ported and one being rear ported might help I guess.

In any event, they are just running of an old Sony receiver, so nothing special there.

The receiver has a selector switch for 8ohms and 4ohms, would I be better off If I wired these together or something? Also, could I bi-wire a pair with the surround speaker outputs?

Thanks

GLobe

concealer404

RuSsMaN wrote: »

What? You never saw one speaker stacked on top of another?

D'oh! I'm an idiot.

Globe, i really hope you didn't pay $750 for that setup....

MrGlobe

Haha, no I didn't pay $750

On a serious note though, I want to set these up just like this as my surround speakers. Would I be able to splice the 2 surround RCA preouts into 4, and then run these off of a 4 channel amp? That way all 4 surround speakers would be getting the same signal (the signal which was meant for 2 speakers)

Or would it be possible to use the surround pre outs to power 2 of them, and then the speaker outs on the receiver (acting as a pre) to provide power to the other 2?


Confusing but LMK if you understand/know the answer

Thanks

Globe

concealer404

MrGlobe wrote: »

Haha, no I didn't pay $750

On a serious note though, I want to set these up just like this as my surround speakers. Would I be able to splice the 2 surround RCA preouts into 4, and then run these off of a 4 channel amp? That way all 4 surround speakers would be getting the same signal (the signal which was meant for 2 speakers)

Or would it be possible to use the surround pre outs to power 2 of them, and then the speaker outs on the receiver (acting as a pre) to provide power to the other 2?


Confusing but LMK if you understand/know the answer

Thanks

Globe

If you have 70s as your mains, you don't want MORE speaker than that up front. If you're dead set on doing this, and honestly, i wouldn't, i'd put the 70s in back and the "100s" in front.

And yes, you would "ideally" use two RCA "Y" female to male splitters.

MrGlobe

Fair enough, I guess that makes sense, I Just thought it would be sweet.

Maybe I'll just give it a try down the road if I get some time