Newb to Club Polk

Long time lurker, first time poster. I have learned a lot already from lurking here the past couple of years. Hope to learn more. Just want to say Hi.

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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,708
    Welcome
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."


    President of Club Polk

  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    BinKY188_5 wrote: »
    Long time lurker, first time poster. I have learned a lot already from lurking here the past couple of years. Hope to learn more. Just want to say Hi.

    Hello! Welcome! I joined 2 years ago and have enjoyed my time here! Lot's of good information, support, and encouragement!

    Tell about your system. Pics if possible. And if you desire to upgrade (as I did)!

    Welcome to CP!
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
    Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
  • I purchased a set of SDA SRS new around 1988. I have used them nearly every day since then, but they are still stock and I am looking to upgrade the crossover and new tweeters.
  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    BinKY188_5 wrote: »
    I purchased a set of SDA SRS new around 1988. I have used them nearly every day since then, but they are still stock and I am looking to upgrade the crossover and new tweeters.

    Awesome! I just picked up a set of SRS's not too long ago and swapped out the tweeters. Profound improvement. XO's eventually. Lot's of folks here have done that as well.
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
    Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
  • K_M
    K_M Posts: 1,627
    BinKY188_5 wrote: »
    I purchased a set of SDA SRS new around 1988. I have used them nearly every day since then, but they are still stock and I am looking to upgrade the crossover and new tweeters.

    Welcome!

    By now those caps will be quite bad.
    Biggest change you can make to make these sound better.

    We used Dayton caps on one set of ours and compared to the old original caps, it made a huge difference in treble and clarity.

    Some members use more boqique caps, and found our big pair have those type, but both types sound great to us.
  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,708
    Boutique
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."


    President of Club Polk

  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,116
    Welcome, we like spending your money 💰
    Pio Elete Pro 520
    Panamax 5400-EX
    Sunfire TGP 5
    Micro Seiki DD-40 - Lyra-Dorian and Denon DL-160
    PS Audio GCPH phono pre
    Sunfire CG 200 X 5
    Sunfire CG Sig 405 X 5
    OPPO BDP-83 SE
    SDA SRS 1.2TL Sonicaps and Mills
    Ctr CS1000p
    Sur - FX1000 x 4
    SUB - SVS PB2-Plus

    Workkout room:
    Sony Bravia XBR- 32-Inch 1080p
    Onkyo TX-DS898
    GFA 555
    Yamaha DVD-S1800BL/SACD
    Ft - SDA 1C

    Not being used:
    RTi 38's -4
    RT55i's - 2
    RT25i's -2, using other 2 in shop
    LSI 15's
    CSi40
    PSW 404
  • rpf65
    rpf65 Posts: 2,127
    F1nut wrote: »
    Boutique

    Everybody knows you have to have a good cap to hide a bad perm.
  • kharp1
    kharp1 Posts: 3,453
    Welcome, where ya from?
  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,042
    K_M wrote: »
    boqique

    bukka... nevermind, I don't want to get banned.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
  • kharp1 I'm from Owensboro.
  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,230
    Welcome from South Carolina.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,009
    welcome from NC. ;)

    Nice speakers you have there!
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Welcome from Mars!
  • Moose68Bash
    Moose68Bash Posts: 3,842
    Welcome!

    You’ll enjoy the ride, and we’ll enjoy helping spend you money — on entirely worthwhile upgrades, of course! B)
    Family Room, Innuos Statement streamer (Roon Core) with Morrow Audio USB cable to McIntosh MC 2700 pre with DC2 Digital Audio Module; AQ Sky XLRs to CAT 600.2 dualmono amp, Morrow Elite Speaker Cables to NOLA Baby Grand Reference Gold 3 speakers. Power source for all components: Silver Circle Audio Pure Power One with dedicated 20 amp circuit to main panel.

    Exercise Room, Innuos Streamer via Cat 6 cable connection to PS Audio PerfectWave MkII DAC w/Bridge II, AQ King Cobra RCAs to Perreaux PMF3150 amp (fully restored and upgraded by Jeffrey Jackson, Precision Audio Labs), Supra Rondo 4x2.5 Speaker Cables to SDA 1Cs (Vr3 Mods Xovers and other mods.), Dreadnaught with Supra Rondo 4x2.5 interconnect cables by Vr3 Mods. Power for each component from dedicated 20 amp circuit to main panel, except Innuos Statement powered from Silver Circle Audio Pure Power One.

  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Yep! I can attest to that! :smile:
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
    Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
  • New member from New Hampshire !! Just wanted to say hi
  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,902
    welcome to all the new guys/gals. Might help further if you introduce yourselves in your own threads, state your interests, maybe where you'd like to see your system improve to. We are pretty darn good at spending other peoples money as already stated.

    ....and we like to have fun, joke around, so thin skinned people usually come and go. Ask questions, get to know the vast personalities that reside here, make some lifelong friends in the process. You won't find a better bunch of audio nuts this side of the crazy house. Enjoy the forum.
    HT SYSTEM-
    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
  • Welcome hammernhank. This thread reminds me of what a procrastinator I am. I have all the parts I need to upgrade (caps, resistors, dynamat, powergrab, hurricane nuts...) except for the RDO-194's that I waited too long to acquire, but still haven't started any work on my SDA SRS's. Maybe this winter.
  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 24,474
    BinKY188_5 wrote: »
    Welcome hammernhank. This thread reminds me of what a procrastinator I am. I have all the parts I need to upgrade (caps, resistors, dynamat, powergrab, hurricane nuts...) except for the RDO-194's that I waited too long to acquire, but still haven't started any work on my SDA SRS's. Maybe this winter.

    Get a call in and find out for sure. Then order 12-15 of them 😉
    I'm under the impression more are coming soon, so you're not S O L .....yet.
  • I just looked at Midwest Speaker and they now show the RDO-194 is on Back Order. ETA is Feb/March 2022. Keeping my fingers crossed.
  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    Welcome from Florida
    JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)