Hey man, Polk back in the day build some good stuff. I had Polks and loved them.
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If you had to choose only ONE pair of speakers for rest of your life ...
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Jack
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I also had Polk Monitor series speakers back in the day. They and the Boston Acoustics "A series" and the ADS L/II series were excellent sound for a fair price. My son still has my ADS L-810/II speakers from 1978 along with my Snell Type A/II's.
nbrowser
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In my bedroom stands a pair of original Monitor 5 bookshelf speakers with the Peerless tweeters, begging to be hooked up to the tube intergrated I recently acquired. Gonna try that thing on all of my speakers
Bavarian05
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Agreed!
I still have a pair of Polks that I use for our television and living room sound.
socfan12
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+1! Still have my Polks monitors. They sound awesome!
lallygagger
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What speaker would I choose if I had to choose one for the rest of my life? For me this is an easy question to answer as I already own them. They are the new Spatial Audio Holograms M2s. I have not heard a speaker that sounds more natural and true to real life than these speakers do, nor can imagine a speaker that could do more than these because these sound so real. How do you beat real?
Every performance parameter we look for in a speaker is satisfied by these speakers... in spades. And they are very easy to move and very very room friendly. In my room they sound great no matter where I place them.
While I know that one can never be absolutely sure of anything, I am much more than reasonably sure that I will stick with these from now on.
It is said that once you have experienced good open baffle speakers you never go back. Now THAT I am sure of (with respect to myself).
Even if cost were no obstacle for me, I would still choose these.
Every performance parameter we look for in a speaker is satisfied by these speakers... in spades. And they are very easy to move and very very room friendly. In my room they sound great no matter where I place them.
While I know that one can never be absolutely sure of anything, I am much more than reasonably sure that I will stick with these from now on.
It is said that once you have experienced good open baffle speakers you never go back. Now THAT I am sure of (with respect to myself).
Even if cost were no obstacle for me, I would still choose these.
MrAcoustat
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Ok i'm a panel guy so my choice will be panels, my friend Jocelyn's DIY Acoustat Spectra 8800s with those i wouldn't have to change my name and i haven't heard anything better BUT i'm sure there is because there always is.
MrAcoustat
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Well, this is encouraging to read. Welcome to Audioshark lallygagger.
MDP
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Welcome to AS !!
Mike has some Spatials coming soon, I can't wait for his thoughts on them !
lallygagger
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Hello and thanks for the welcome. i just joined yesterday and today I will go in and introduce myself. What prompted me to join is that i saw a thread where people were discussing the Hologram M1s, but no one had actually experienced them. I have had them for over a month now. I live in a place where I can let my system play all night at loud listening levels and not disturb anybody. So, I was able to break them in very quickly and I have had ample time to listen to them... and be amazed.
I had occasion to email Mike and he told me that he has the Lumina Statements coming. He urged me to write about the M2s. Later I intend to post a write up of my impressions on the Hologram thread.
I had occasion to email Mike and he told me that he has the Lumina Statements coming. He urged me to write about the M2s. Later I intend to post a write up of my impressions on the Hologram thread.
lallygagger
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Hello Mike,
I apologize for talking about you in the third person like that. I read the two posts welcoming me and responded before I checked to see who wrote them.
I apologize for talking about you in the third person like that. I read the two posts welcoming me and responded before I checked to see who wrote them.
That's ok. No big deal. We are glad you are here. I know Steve (Petro85) is keenly interested in the Hologram speakers.
lallygagger
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Hopefully I will get on it some time today. If not today, then tomorrow... I promise.
asindc
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They still do. Their current lineup is no joke. Heard a pair of their bookshelfs at an audio show two years ago. They were among the best I heard that day.
For life? I would not like to choose speakers I haven't heard, that would be somebody else's choice. So if it's speakers I've heard then it would be Harold Beveridge System 2's in a heartbeat. With space constraints I would have the Braun LV1020 Tri-amps. From my current 1/2 dozen pairs I will most happily keep the DQ-10's until my end. That said, I see all my choices are vintage. It's not that I'm opposed to new, I just need to get to some shows and hear some new stuff.
puroagave
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If I could choose just one it would be Sound lab ultimates, a fitting name for a great speakers. I owned JGH's reference, the sound lab A-3 for a number of years and i'm still on the lookout for another pair. For a small listening space, orig Quads ESL's ('57s) are peerless.
mep
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I know people speak of the ESL 57s in near reverential terms, but in reality it is a very limited speaker. No real bass, not much on the top end, and it's basically a midrange speaker that can't take much power at all before it arcs and blows holes in the panels. If you love chamber music played at low volumes, I guess they are OK. I like the original Quad II amps that were designed to go with the ESL 57s much better. Fitted with NOS Mullard KT-66 tubes and NOS Mullard rectifier and those little amps rock much harder than the ESL 57s ever could have hoped to.
Other than the above deficiencies, I think the ESL-57s are great!
