Wherein Micah returns (promises not to say anything negative) to sell his Classic Monitor 7Bs

Yeah, he's back. Your favorite Polk Audio troll. AKA Socks. You love to hate him, and yet you hang on his every word. Even your "cease & desist" letters bounce right off his skinny little chest. He wrote the words that make the whole world sing about Polk Audio, and you can't defeat him!

Anyway, long time no forum. I had to let a lot of water go under the bridge before I decided to post again. Plus, I got some stuff to sell you suckers, and it's right up your alley, believe me.

It's a pair of Monitor 7Bs, and here's the story about 'em; the "provenance" for you pinky-ring audiophiles.

Picture this: it's the late 90s. I'm in a basement in Highlandtown, hon, and I'm covered with garbage. It's the basement of a hoarder, and I'm cleaning it out by myself, filling a dumpster out on the back slab. Far in a corner of the crowded basement, I moved some boxes of junk, black garbage bags of smelly old clothes, a bicycle, and something wrapped in fabric that feels soft like a human body parts. There, up against the wall, covered in dust and debris, sit a pair of huge wooden bookshelf speakers. I see the fuse, I see the label: Polk Audio.

Upon further inspection, I see they're basically destroyed. Most of the drivers are broken, pierced and torn. The wood cabinet is abused and drab. Nevertheless, I carry them to my car and bring them to work the next day. (Remember, "work" for me then was as your friendly neighborhood marketing copywriter right here at Polk Audio! Read my words and weep!)

I was wheeling this pair of big bookshelf speakers down the hall, when Matt Polk (remember him?) leaned out of his office and said to me, "Hey, I made those."

Matt Polk made these speakers.

Seeing the condition they were in, he told me to take them in the back, to the wood shop, and have Darrell (awesome!) rebuild them and refinish them. "Let's see if we can get them to work again," Matt said.

Darrell worked some magic. These speakers not only work, they sound great. All the drivers were replaced, all the surrounds were replaced, and as far as I know all the inner connections were reset, along with the fuses. He did the best he could with the finish, which is veneer over MDF. When you see pictures of the things, you will see the nicks and scrapes, and some paint stains. But when we connected them, they played like new. A circa 1974 pair of Polk Audio Monitor 7Bs. Suck it!

I'm missing a grille. I could swear there were two grilles when I brought the speakers into the wood shop, but it was so many years ago, and so much aforementioned water under the bridge, that I can't account for the left grille. Or maybe it's the right grille. Turns out you can buy them on eBay for just a few dollars.





Plenty more pics where those came from.

So anyway, I'm not here to talk about what's become of our beloved Polk Audio. I'm not here to talk about the bad writing run amok on the website. I let sleeping dogs lie. All I want to do is find someone who wants this historic pair of rebuilt and refurbished 1974 Monitor 7Bs.

I want to sell them, possibly to you, music lover.

I'm not really sure how to do that, because they are really big (14 x 10 x 24) and weigh a lot. Shipping them would be very expensive. Maybe you would come pick them up from me? He would drive all over the country to pick up an old refurbished pair of loudspeakers missing a grille? Maybe you would.

I'd like to get a couple three hundred dollars for them, but I'm not greedy and I'd be willing to make a deal, especially if I can get out of shipping them. (I'm in Charlotte NC.)

What do you think, Polk people? Anyone? Bueller?

Micah