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    My New Speakers! (56k? RUN AWAY!)

    Bought a pair of vintage speakers a few weeks ago.













    Last edited by Bobsama; 08-26-2009 at 11:23 AM.

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    What are they? what happened to the left speakers right tweeter?
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    OMG Thats a lot of Bass for a house

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    Quote Originally Posted by psyconut713 View Post
    What are they? what happened to the left speakers right tweeter?
    Refresh. And they're original Polk SDA-1's. Technically a transitional model; before the standard Polk SDA-1's came on the scene.
    Quote Originally Posted by slim142 View Post
    OMG Thats a lot of Bass for a house
    They're actually not that bassy. Four 6.5" woofers and a 12" passive radiator. The passive radiator is just that; passive. It works as a diaphragm. They're quite well balanced, especially in the bass department. But yeah, it's plenty easy to kick the bass out of them with a little bit of EQ'ing.

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    yeah, the pics i saw before were just three with links to image shack, i see now, lol
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    KEF XQ-20 Khaya Mahogany:McIntosh Labs MA-6100:Monster M Series Bi-wire 2-4

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    Added a few more. THe first few were like the day after I got the speakers, the later are from a few days ago.

    Speakers: transitional Polk SDA-1 w/ RTA-style SDA cable
    Preamp: (unused): Kenwood KC-991
    Poweramp (dead!): Kenwood KP-991
    Integrated amp: Sherwood AI-1110
    Sources: Kenwood KT-591 (Radio tuner), DP-R891 (5-CD player), Apple iPod (4G) 16GB (/Aux.), Sony DVP-S360 (DVD player)

    Also shown are just some generic Sony speakers (missing two actually) running off of a few-years-old Sony AVR. I don't have the VCR or Beta players hooked up to either system, though the DVD player is hooked up to both. Using S/PDIF Optical to the AVR and RCA to the integrated amp.

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    Gigabyte EX58-UD3R | Core i7-920 (D0) | Stock HSF | G.Skill Sniper LV 4GB DDR3-1600 CL9 | Radeon HD 2600 Pro 512MB | WD Caviar 80GB IDE, 4TB x 2 (RAID5) | Corsair TX750 | XClio 188AF | Win 7 Pro x86-64
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    Little Dot DAC_I | Little Dot MK IV | Beyerdynamic DT-880 Premium (600 Ω) | TEAC AG-H300 MkIII | Polk Audio Monitor 5 Series 2's

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    These SDA-1's are matching serial numbers, by the way. Very lucky in that regard!




    The speaker wire used are 8' lengths of #16, tipped on the amp end with screw-crimp gold-plated pins and on the speaker side are bare copper wire.

    My toys:
    Asus Sabertooth X58 | Core i7-950 (D0) | CM Hyper 212+ | G.Skill Sniper LV 12GB DDR3-1600 CL9 | GeForce GTX 670-2048MB | OCZ Agility 4 512GB, WD Raptor 150GB x 3 (RAID0), WD Black 1TB x 2 (RAID0) | XFX 650W CAH9 | Lian-Li PC-9F | Win 7 Pro x86-64
    Gigabyte EX58-UD3R | Core i7-920 (D0) | Stock HSF | G.Skill Sniper LV 4GB DDR3-1600 CL9 | Radeon HD 2600 Pro 512MB | WD Caviar 80GB IDE, 4TB x 2 (RAID5) | Corsair TX750 | XClio 188AF | Win 7 Pro x86-64
    Dell Dimension 8400 | Pentium 4 530 HT (E0) | Stock HSF | 1.5GB DDR2-400 CL3 | GeForce 8800 GT 256MB | WD Caviar 160GB SATA | Stock PSU | (Broken) Stock Case | Win Vista HP x86
    Little Dot DAC_I | Little Dot MK IV | Beyerdynamic DT-880 Premium (600 Ω) | TEAC AG-H300 MkIII | Polk Audio Monitor 5 Series 2's

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