Were there any worthy mid-fi or high-end Polk loudspeakers pre-2000's?
My exposure to Polk is limited to living with Polk's (big boxes on short stands) for a couple weeks on loan in the early 1980's, they were nothing special (flawed) compared to other speakers and way overpriced in my opinion. Flat and shallow sounding but could take some power, the moderate listening levels were un-involving to put it nicely.
Compared to the similarly sized but 1/2-1/3 the cost Audio Lab (Fisher drivers) speakers I had, I liked my overly warm speakers much better.
My other experience was at a hi-end store in the early 1990's, it was one of their larger floor standers, it sounded like flat cardboard to put it nicely. The Polks were a total embarrassment compared to the B&W and Martin Logan's in the same price range. The store was trying to decide if they were going to pick up the line or not, they decided against.
So when come car guys started talking about loudspeakers and Polk came up 3-4 times and had to think that maybe I was missing something.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1028881-looking-speaker-recommendations.html
What did I miss?
Did Polk ever make any good speakers?
I'm thinking of the Polk SDA in particular.
Tell me about them.
My exposure to Polk is limited to living with Polk's (big boxes on short stands) for a couple weeks on loan in the early 1980's, they were nothing special (flawed) compared to other speakers and way overpriced in my opinion. Flat and shallow sounding but could take some power, the moderate listening levels were un-involving to put it nicely.
Compared to the similarly sized but 1/2-1/3 the cost Audio Lab (Fisher drivers) speakers I had, I liked my overly warm speakers much better.
My other experience was at a hi-end store in the early 1990's, it was one of their larger floor standers, it sounded like flat cardboard to put it nicely. The Polks were a total embarrassment compared to the B&W and Martin Logan's in the same price range. The store was trying to decide if they were going to pick up the line or not, they decided against.
So when come car guys started talking about loudspeakers and Polk came up 3-4 times and had to think that maybe I was missing something.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1028881-looking-speaker-recommendations.html
What did I miss?
Did Polk ever make any good speakers?
I'm thinking of the Polk SDA in particular.
Tell me about them.
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