New Polk Audio "Legend" Speaker Series shown at 2019 Hong Kong High End Audio Video Show
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motorhead43026 wrote: »A twerp, a person whom f-arts in the bathtub and bites the bubbles.
And you know this from experience?
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“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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Got this in an email today. Something wicked this way comes,,,
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Yeah, it also said "is your mancave ready for this?"
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Perhaps they'll glue a ruby to it! OH!
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Well I have a number of educated, relatively affluent married friends that love music, and exactly one of them has tower speakers in the living area (my bro in law). None of the rest even have bookshelf speakers. One has in wall, one a sound bar, the rest Bluetooth speakers. So, ya know, know your audience and all that jazz...Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
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Got this in an email today. Something wicked this way comes,,,
They shoulda played the opening section of Also Sprach Zarathustra behind the animation.
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I did a google search a few years back of the 50 best classical music songs and that was one of them. I went to my local library and was able to collect a vast majority of those 50 songs and made a 2 CD compilation album of classical music. Whenever I have a lady friend over for sexy time, I play that song for the humor. It softens the mood. After that I always hear Simon Cowell's buzzer sound.mhardy6647 wrote: » -
I did a google search a few years back of the 50 best classical music songs and that was one of them. I went to my local library and was able to collect a vast majority of those 50 songs and made a 2 CD compilation album of classical music. Whenever I have a lady friend over for sexy time, I play that song for the humor. It softens the mood. After that I always hear Simon Cowell's buzzer sound.mhardy6647 wrote: »
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It's a term of endearment!
I did a google search a few years back of the 50 best classical music songs and that was one of them. I went to my local library and was able to collect a vast majority of those 50 songs and made a 2 CD compilation album of classical music. Whenever I have a lady friend over for sexy time, I play that song for the humor. It softens the mood. After that I always hear Simon Cowell's buzzer sound.mhardy6647 wrote: »
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It's his nickname for me. I wish he'd stop putting our business out into public though.afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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PolkAudioJoJo wrote: »All this talk about SDA makes me want to puke. Speaker technology has improved since then, get over it.
A lot of people here like what SDA does to the sound stage, get over it.
Probably quite true what you say, but this is a small forum.
Several dozen people on a forum that is dedicated TO the brand in question, is simply too small a sampling of the audio world overall to draw any reasonable consensus of the appeal of a 30+ year old speaker design.
Again not disagreeing with you, but there are simply not a lot of people here.
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LOL, right! Maybe have the younger generation playing the old piece in a BIG way..... have the '13 Carolina Crown Drum Corps boombastic performance in the background.mhardy6647 wrote: »They shoulda played the opening section of Also Sprach Zarathustra behind the animation.
BIG Sound, Youthful Movement and Expression, playing the old Legendary tune, with a modern twist!
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Curious is it possible the engineers at Polk have figured out a single driver SDA instead of the usual side by side configuration hmmm.Yamaha RXA1030, Yamaha CD-S2100, Yamaha AS-2200, Bluesound node 2i
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RandyCroissant wrote: »Curious is it possible the engineers at Polk have figured out a single driver SDA instead of the usual side by side configuration hmmm.
Polk would not need to as it's already been done for the last few decades. It's possible to do something similar to the crosstalk cancellation concept with single drivers in regular stereo speakers through electronics. A Swiss company called Weiss Engineering has been doing some DSP work for DACs in this area lately but the concept itself is not new at all and others have tinkered with crosstalk cancellation:
https://www.weiss.ch/products/dac501-dac502
But, Polk's implementation through SDA speakers has always relied on acoustics rather than electronics. They did put a type of SDA in a few soundbars and used DSP for those, but that is something different than stereo. The space between the stereo and dimensional midwoofers on SDA stereo speakers was critically important for the SDA function. One could certainly make the case that Polk's implementation of crosstalk cancellation has been superior to anything else yet produced, but it is possible something that works better and with greater flexibility may be in the works somewhere given the vast improvements in signal processing technology in the last couple decades.
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PolkAudioJoJo wrote: »All this talk about SDA makes me want to puke. Speaker technology has improved since then, get over it.
A lot of people here like what SDA does to the sound stage, get over it.
Probably quite true what you say, but this is a small forum.
Several dozen people on a forum that is dedicated TO the brand in question, is simply too small a sampling of the audio world overall to draw any reasonable consensus of the appeal of a 30+ year old speaker design.
Again not disagreeing with you, but there are simply not a lot of people here.
A reasonable consensus is only needed by the amount of people that own them or have owned them. Percentage wise, think of Ferrari....not a lot of people own one, but we can get a good consensus from those that do, even though they represent a fraction of car owners.HT SYSTEM-
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Just digging into this.....that said, based on historical experience with the LSi/LSiM launches...they all turned out to be good speakers.
If F1 isn't dogging them......they are legit.
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RandyCroissant wrote: »Curious is it possible the engineers at Polk have figured out a single driver SDA instead of the usual side by side configuration hmmm.
The SDA properties are now done electronically by an algorithm as seen in many of the (surround) sound bars. I doubt we will ever see a purely acoustical type SDA. The crossover is complicated and the shear size of the speaker is not the current trend.
We can hope for a hybrid as was talked about at the last Polkfest held at HQ before Matt left. An acoustical and electronic approach. That was what...….10 years ago now??? That ship has probably sailed.
*IF* SDA has legs beyond sound bars, it will almost certainly be of the electronic type rather than pure acoustical.
So to answer your question; yes...it's been done (not a single speaker, but a few small speakers).
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For Polk to make a speaker you all want, SDA's with great drivers and crossovers, you wouldn't buy them anyway because they'd be too expensive to make today.
Someone would buy them. I base that on all the outlandish, aesthetically challenged, and bad sounding (to me) five and six figure speakers I saw and heard during two tours of AXPONA.The name of the game is to make money, profit, and you have to sell in volumes to do that. Polk's customer base is not high end buyers. Want a high end speaker ? Plenty of other brands to wet your feet with.
But that's the problem. If you are connoisseur of stereophonic imaging...once you've heard hot rodded SDAs on excellent electronics, other speakers, even high end ones, come up way short in that area.
I was hoping that Polk would one day branch off a high end division with a different brand name and market it properly, similar to what Toyota did with Lexus. Since Polk, or their corporate parent, apparently does not want to use the technology, it would be great if they would license it to another high end speaker company. (Wishful thinking.)
Probably quite true what you say, but this is a small forum.
Several dozen people on a forum that is dedicated TO the brand in question, is simply too small a sampling of the audio world overall to draw any reasonable consensus of the appeal of a 30+ year old speaker design.
Again not disagreeing with you, but there are simply not a lot of people here.
Some people like what they like and don't require validation from "the masses". I don't like something less because other people don't like it.
For a person of good character and honest intent, the truth spoken by one person carries infinitely more weight than a lie spoken by millions.A reasonable consensus is only needed by the amount of people that own them or have owned them. Percentage wise, think of Ferrari....not a lot of people own one, but we can get a good consensus from those that do, even though they represent a fraction of car owners.
Agreed. Stereophonic music reproduction, like Ferrari ownership, should be based on personal enjoyment, rather than on what other people think or how many other people like what you like.Proud and loyal citizen of the Digital Domain and Solid State Country! -
Gotta laugh here! This thread really got off the rails, but good to see it's back on track!
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