Help with Polk HT

aceinthehole
aceinthehole Posts: 3
edited December 2009 in Speakers
Current system specs:
Onkyo htrc 180 amp, 110wpc I beleive
Polk psw505 sub
Polk Monitor 70s for front towers
Polk RM95 satillites for center and surrounds -5 speakers total

Now the questions:
1) Could my amp drive rti10s properly?
2) Would I need to bi-amp/bi-wire to get the Rti10s to sound good?
3) If I got Rti10s would the monitor 70s make good surrounds for them?
4) Would my wife kill me if I buy more speakers?

Thank you in advance.
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  • jax3822
    jax3822 Posts: 88
    edited December 2009
    Ace,
    1. Yes
    2. No
    3. No
    4. Yes
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  • kawizx9r
    kawizx9r Posts: 5,150
    edited December 2009
    aceinthehole wrote: »
    Current system specs:
    Onkyo htrc 180 amp, 110wpc I beleive
    Polk psw505 sub
    Polk Monitor 70s for front towers
    Polk RM95 satillites for center and surrounds -5 speakers total

    Now the questions:
    1) Could my amp drive rti10s properly?
    2) Would I need to bi-amp/bi-wire to get the Rti10s to sound good?
    3) If I got Rti10s would the monitor 70s make good surrounds for them?
    4) Would my wife kill me if I buy more speakers?

    Thank you in advance.

    1. I'd have to check out your amp, but more power is always better (clean powerful current that is) don't just look at wattage.
    2. Bi-amp is different from bi-wiring which is what you're mistaking it for. Bi-amp is powering a pair of speakers with individual amplifiers.
    3. It is ideal to match up your entire HT setup but for surrounds it isn't all too important. However it is important to match your entire frontstage IE center and fronts.
    4. My wife hasn't yet and I have 3 pairs of speakers and 2 subwoofers in the living room :confused:
    Oh and those speakers aren't for HT, I mean they're full sized speakers just taking space! lol

    Btw, welcome to CP!

    -Freddy
    Truck setup
    Alpine 9856
    Phoenix Gold RSD65CS

    For Sale
    Polk SR6500
    Polk SR5250
    Polk SR104


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  • aceinthehole
    aceinthehole Posts: 3
    edited December 2009
    Wow quick replies.
    Yeah what im thinking about is selling my 1 month old rm95 speaker satillites with the stands.
    Then bi-amping thru my amp to the rti10s, it has this feature on my amp.
    Also getting a good center like a cs20, and monitor 70s as rears.
    Im I on the right path or am I just on a collision course to spend a tonne of money and get medeocre results?.... and the wife pissed at me. lol.
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  • aceinthehole
    aceinthehole Posts: 3
    edited December 2009
    Ok, just an update on progression, I had some m10 bookshelf speakers too, so I hooked them up as rear surrounds. Bi-amped my monitor 70s from my onkyo amp, this just made it so I couldnt do 7.1 only 5.1 now. At first I didnt notice any difference in the sound from bi-amping. Then durring a HD movie, I decided to go into the amp setup and turn "sub ON" to "sub OFF", so it would send full range to the speakers. Incredible difference, unpaused the movie and I could not beleive the bass coming out from the monitor 70, HUGE difference. Now I dont even have to turn my amp up hardly and there is excellent sound there, full range, and clairity on lower volumes and the m10s make pretty good surrounds with this setup.

    Now, I just have to upgrade the center channel from the sattilite, to the cs10 or the cs20, those are the 2 deicent centers local in town here.

    The other thing is more is never enouph, I know there are a pair of Rti10's going on sale at FS on boxing day, and I just dont know if its a big upgrade to go from the monitor 70's to the Rti, then move the 70's to surrounds or is that overkill?

    Update, the wife has grown on the speakers/audio upgrades, she loves the sound in movies now.
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  • turbojohngt
    turbojohngt Posts: 16
    edited December 2009
    The other thing is more is never enouph, I know there are a pair of Rti10's going on sale at FS on boxing day, and I just dont know if its a big upgrade to go from the monitor 70's to the Rti, then move the 70's to surrounds or is that overkill?

    I'm in the EXACT same boat as you my friend.I have monitor 70 running on a Onkyo 876 (140 watts) and I to am wondering if it is going to be that big of a diff by going to rti10's.:confused:
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited December 2009
    Don't get the CS10 or CS20. If you're using RTi10's up front, your best bet would be a CSi5, or a CSiA6. The CS10/20 are timbre matched to the TSi/Monitor series, and have a very different sound than the RTi series.
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  • madnod
    madnod Posts: 79
    edited December 2009
    kawizx9r wrote: »
    1. I'd have to check out your amp, but more power is always better (clean powerful current that is) don't just look at wattage.
    2. Bi-amp is different from bi-wiring which is what you're mistaking it for. Bi-amp is powering a pair of speakers with individual amplifiers.
    3. It is ideal to match up your entire HT setup but for surrounds it isn't all too important. However it is important to match your entire frontstage IE center and fronts.
    4. My wife hasn't yet and I have 3 pairs of speakers and 2 subwoofers in the living room :confused:
    Oh and those speakers aren't for HT, I mean they're full sized speakers just taking space! lol

    Btw, welcome to CP!

    -Freddy

    someone is pushing his luck with the wife :)
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  • lmacmil
    lmacmil Posts: 119
    edited December 2009
    kawizx9r wrote: »
    4. My wife hasn't yet and I have 3 pairs of speakers and 2 subwoofers in the living room :confused:

    I'll she has a lot of nice jewelry, doesn't she? ;)
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  • kawizx9r
    kawizx9r Posts: 5,150
    edited December 2009
    madnod wrote: »
    someone is pushing his luck with the wife :)
    lmacmil wrote: »
    I'll she has a lot of nice jewelry, doesn't she? ;)

    LOL

    She does actually, but she's got more clothes/shoes than anything else so she's happy.

    As long as I don't bring another pair of Maggies or towers I'm good!
    Truck setup
    Alpine 9856
    Phoenix Gold RSD65CS

    For Sale
    Polk SR6500
    Polk SR5250
    Polk SR104


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