Polk LSi15 pair on CL for $550, good deal or not?

I'm not really in the market for these. I was just curious. I just sold 2 pairs of speakers and my wife asked if that meant I was going to buy more.

I was using a pair of Paradigm Monitor 9 v1 as the fronts in my HT. I sold them and a pair of Polk Monitor 5Jr+ Series 2 a few days ago. I brought the EPI 180 pair that I restored and could not sell (no interest) up from the basement. They're sitting on top of the Polk PSW450 subs and sound pretty damn good.

We're leaving for the winter in a few weeks, so there is no need to buy speakers in the near future. Prior to using the Paradigm towers as the HT fronts, I was using a pair of Polk RT55i, but I took them to our winter residence last year and left them there.

Thanks for the comments and info.

Here is the HT and 2 channel systems.



These were let go of last weekend.

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Hehe, funny, she's watching you.

I almost picked up a pair of RT55i to try a few weeks ago, but missed them. How do you like them? Are they for a combo use system?

I like the sound of the RT55i in the HT and by themselves. The other Polk speakers in my HT use the exact same tweeter and blue coned woofer as the RT55i and RT800i. The RT55i is basically the same as the CS400i center, except that it's orinted vertically and both woofers are at the bottom as opposed to the CS400i where the tweeter is between the woofers.

I originally had a pair of RT800i towers as my HT fronts. I liked them, but a friend liked them more and wanted to buy them about 6 years ago. I sold him those and bought the RT55i pair (on this forum) to replace them in my HT. Same drivers in both pairs, and with the low xover point set to 80hz on the subs, It was an even swap as far as I was concerned. I acquired the Paradigms in a trade a couple of years later and I would have preferred to take them to our condo in FL, but I never had enough room in the SUV, so the RT55i went south and the Paradigms replaced them in the HT until last week when I sold them. Again, another friend wanted them more than I did.

The condo system is simple, but it sounds good. It consists of a 60 wpc Yamaha RX-485 receiver that was a throw-in on a deal for other gear I found locally on CL a few years ago, the RT55i speakers, a Logitech Squeezebox, and a Topping D30 DAC. There is a cheapo Emerson DVD/CD player that was left by the previous owner, but it does have a digital out. I may connect the TV to the DAC also. My entire CD collection is ripped to my laptop in lossless format. The laptop, DAC, and Squeezebox travel back and forth with me. It's not a very big space. The Polks fill it up easily, but if I ever have the room, I'd like to bring the Polks back for the HT and take the EPI 180 pair to the condo and leave them there.