New Polk Audio "Legend" Speaker Series shown at 2019 Hong Kong High End Audio Video Show

OMG been gone for a few days and 81 new posts on this thread! Gotta get my read on!

tratliff wrote: »

I have been starting to follow the new line up. Was surprised to find an upcoming event at Nebraska Furniture Mart in the DFW area. Not sure I will be able to experience the full line in a quality way.

You ever try to talk audio with the sales associates at NFM??? They may have been selling toasters or area rugs yesterday.

Yes, but you can get an Extended Warranty/ Service Contract that can conveniently be added to our FREE Financial Package, well Free for the first 30 days anyway!

And btw, do you have the wires/ cables to properly hook up these beautiful speakers?

New Audioholics video on the Legends.

https://youtu.be/bMc2ou81JLI

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I will resist posting a link to YT for a 1970s Jimmy Castor Bunch hit...

I know that one usually does not think of sub-woofers as legends, at least as far as legendary Polks, but I am wondering if there will eventually be a "Legend" sub to pair with the L100 or L200.

VR3 wrote: »

Polk has historically stayed away from high end subwoofers. There are so many options in that space, I don't see them trying to compete

I dunno Trey, they have to round it out and include a sub, HT is still a big part of their product line. Sig series has it's own sub, I see no reason why they would not make one for the legend series.

Granted, other brands are kicking rear end in the sub dept.,like you said, but that hasn't stopped Polk from putting out new subs in the past. Some people just like to keep everything brand specific.

tonyb wrote: »

VR3 wrote: »

Polk has historically stayed away from high end subwoofers. There are so many options in that space, I don't see them trying to compete

I dunno Trey, they have to round it out and include a sub, HT is still a big part of their product line. Sig series has it's own sub, I see no reason why they would not make one for the legend series.

Granted, other brands are kicking rear end in the sub dept.,like you said, but that hasn't stopped Polk from putting out new subs in the past. Some people just like to keep everything brand specific.

They would need to try very hard to best my REL...

On Man....the two ported 10's have a 3dB down point at 32Hz. A sub to mate up with this set will have to bring it! Anything less than a ported 15" (with their already effective Power Port) driven by 1000-2000 watts of ICEpower and built in DSP just won't get it done. I'm sure they would ask $2000-$3000 for such a sub given the microPRO 4000 was $1700 waay back when.. The SVS PB16 should be the target and hopefully they have a couple in their R&D lab for testing as well as all of the ID subs out there.

So, IMO if they don't have plans to offer a sub to mate up with the flagship as well as 10"-12" options then they should stay out of that game. Give them a year... If nothing within that time frame, I doubt they will jump in. The same goes for a surround option...and maybe one with ATMOS Enabled or maybe even wall and ceiling mount height speakers. Give them a year.

I apologize for posting this here but it seemed a little too second-hand to post in the L200 demo reviews thread. Still, I reckon this may be of interest to at least some of you us -- who are interested in correlating what one hears with what one may quantify*. Note that correlation doesn't imply causation** and I am not pretending that this poster is an expert in measuring loudspeaker response.

Still, it is interesting to see some data, questionable though its provenance may be.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/polk-legend-l200-on-and-off-axis-measurements-preliminary.10098/




... I still wanna see the impedance and phase curves for the L200

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* Of course, just because one may measure something doesn't mean it's audibly important (and vice versa) and just because someone can push a button and measure something doesn't mean he/she/they are doing it correctly, much less meaningfully.

** https://xkcd.com/552/

So -- some chatter at ASR (yes... ) and elsewhere got me to thinking about "SDA".
Fueled by three large cups of coffee and a bit sleep depraved deprived I came up with the following, not terribly thought out, Gedankenexperiment.

Suppose you had two (human -- or AI, if need be) violinists of equal ability and equipped with equivalent violins. Position those two violins in the positions normally occupied by a pair of properly set up L800s and take a seat in the proper listening position (with or without a beanie equipped with proper measuring equipment!)

Ask both violinists (politely, of course) to play the same thing at the same time. Could be a piece of music, or a single note. The latter might be more amenable to analysis

Listen to the result.

Seems to me this would be a reasonable approximation of two point sources similar to two stereo loudspeakers. The "signal" would be, in essence, mono... but the effects of crosstalk between the two sources (I would think) would be quite evident to a human listener with two ears in the traditional configuration I suspect there'd be some noticeable weirdness if the two musicians/violins were playing the same note!

Not sure what further 'testability' this model would have, but I thought it would be fun and interesting to try.




source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereophonic_sound
(not quite the right illustration but you get the point )