Monitor 7 Polk Audio. It does not have to break the bank to restore a set of nice speakers!
VSAT88
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What is the kitchen table good for? Hell, I ain't got no family! My wife stays with the "grand-kids" in her Class A school bus conversion in Tallahassee a lot of the time. The daughter, she is grown so its usually just me here! Why not do something fun! A set of Polk Audio Monitor 7's are a good start! Found on Marketplace. Went and picked them up and stuck a new set of binding posts in em. A set of oil filled Jard brand name HVAC oil filled 35uF caps for the M.W. section. Two Silver Dragon 12uF 400V Poly Pro's for the tweeter. The lil blue polyswitch had to go. The old resistor too. Put in a wire wound non inductive there. Green Dragon! 55.00 US in parts including shipping. No treatment of the MW or Passive were done. No special bolts or anything else for that matter. It took only a few minutes to do it all up. I did not get fancy bending everything (cap leads/resistor leads) to look beautiful either. This was for fun just to see what could be done for nearly nothing and quick! They sound fantastic and look fantastic! Of course they got the James worked on them Polk Audio Gold Badge treatment. I took a red marker to em. Guys I ain't even clean them up yet. I know, there will be a few here say why? That is just not right. Not using Soni Caps, not using Mills resistors, Not using BH5, not using hurricane nuts, not using Cardis solid copper binding posts, not using Dynamat... Oh man. Fact... Some do not want to mortgage the house to upgrade a set of speakers. Some folks just will not spend that kind of money on them. Some can't. Some do not want to spend all that time! Feel like I ruined them? Come by and listen to them... LOL. If you don't like em I will refund your money! HA HA HA!! @xschop you better be watching my thread!
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They certainly look nice. I do wonder about the HVAC start-up capacitor though. I have heard of using then in power supplies but that us much higher voltage than the audio signal. Appropriate oil filled caps do have their place in audio level applications and apparently perform well. I am interested to hear why you selected this type of cap.Stan
Main 2ch:
Polk LSi15 (DB840 upgrade), Parasound: P/LD-1100, HCA-1000A; Denon: DVD-2910, DRM-800A; Benchmark DAC1, Monster HTS3600-MKII, Grado SR-225i; Technics SL-J2, Parasound PPH-100.
HT:
Marantz SR7010, Polk: RTA11TL (RDO198-1, XO and Damping Upgrades), S4, CS250, PSW110 , Marantz UD5005, Pioneer PL-530, Panasonic TC-P42S60
Other stuff:
Denon: DRA-835R, AVR-888, DCD-660, DRM-700A, DRR-780; Polk: S8, Monitor 5A, 5B, TSi100, RM7, PSW10 (DXi104 upgrade); Pioneer: CT-6R; Onkyo CP-1046F; Ortofon OM5E, Marantz: PM5004, CD5004, CDR-615; Parasound C/PT-600, HCA-800ii, Sony CDP-650ESD, Technics SA 5070, B&W DM601 -
Excellent performance in a cheap form. Paul Klipsch used them for years. I think they still do in their legacy designs. Low ESR, Accurate uF rating. Easy to install.
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Can't knock bang for buck performance. Nice work. But do have to ask...
Where's the Wuhans!?Don't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists. -
Better then that Van Halen build that guy did that used to hang here, till F1 and his cronies ran him off..
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What did the Van Halen dude do @Toolfan66 ? Use a 5150 in the bottom of the cabs?
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Wuhans! Did not need a set for these : ) They came with very good condition SL-2500's that sound fine! 0198 could be in the future? Who knows. I am never finished with a set of speakers... Not really.
