polk monitor series....floorstanders and centre....any good?

[meccalli 1]

well ive been looking at these for quite a while i wanna do these with my current kenwood vr-60-rs receiver along with 2 18Q's ...........will these monitors be good and also..looking for a good house power amp to drive the Q's(sorry bout the posts about a car amp..ive had an epiphany)..lol..model are monitor 70 floorstanders and monitor cs2....heres a link...oh i almost forgot..this soundcard nice??http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000J1F1BI/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=A2R0FX412W1BDT&v=glanc e .........a pair of these http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...ER&v=glance ............and one o this...http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002MPNLC/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance

[JimJ 11]

Meh...I'm not that impressed by them.

[meccalli 1]

soo could you recommend a good pair of floorstanders and centre and also a home amp for the Q's?please....

Edited August 2, 2008 by mecalli

[chad.SQ 0]

soo could you recommend a good pair of floorstanders and centre

Are you looking to buy speakers? Or build your own...

and also a home amp for the Q's?please....

I'm assuming to want to power the Q with its full power handling. A Plate Amp or Rack Mount Amp that would be ideal is the Dayton HPSA1000 or the Dayton HPSA1000-R.

[meccalli 1]

im buying and i was thinking about the behringer ep2500 amp..

[chad.SQ 0]

Personally you should do a LOT of research before jumping into buying a set of floor standers. If you bought those Polk speakers I would only shake my head. HTIB is not the way to go.

[JimJ 11]

$500ish can get you usable speakers, but I wouldn't do my speaker shopping from Amazon.

Check out Audiogon.com...you might be able to pick up a pair of Vandersteen 1C's for $600, which would destroy those Polks. Maybe Magnepan MMG's, although they require a little more thought put into amplification and room placement.

[splmark 0]

i have the the monitor 50's cs1 and 2 sets of 30's for the back and they sound great to me, i used to have an onkyo HTIB and it sucked.

the monitors are not a htib just polks 2ed to lowest speckers.

[///M5 2,833]

I'd take a step back and let us know what you are trying to accomplish as your current selection isn't something anyone should ever buy.

[meccalli 1]

well..im looking to accomplish the best audiophile experience for around 800 -900 bucks...excluding amps/receiver/subwoofer

[///M5 2,833]

best audiophile around 800 -900 bucks

Do you want to be able to teleport too?

The best compromise will be to build your own and only 2 even then it is a bit of a stretch.

[chad.SQ 0]

Do you want to be able to teleport too?

LOL

[johnecon2001 82]

I personally hate that Behringer amplifier. Soo noisy, even as a sub amp.

[meccalli 1]

best audiophile around 800 -900 bucks

Do you want to be able to teleport too?

The best compromise will be to build your own and only 2 even then it is a bit of a stretch.

well..,where do i start ..i got mdf and materials..what about woofers/design.....?

[///M5 2,833]

Start reading on zaph's site and the htguide diy section. Both good places to get ideas.

[MikeS 0]

well..im looking to accomplish the best audiophile experience for around 800 -900 bucks...excluding amps/receiver/subwoofer

So you are basically saying you can spend up to 800-900 bucks for a pair of floorstanding speakers?

You live in a fairly large city? Maybe hit one those boutique audio joints.....not to buy anything....but to listen to some different types speakers, and get a idea of what is offered.

Then hit Audiogon......

There is many different types of speakers, and one has to figure out which one floats one's boat.

The best audiophile experience to you, may be someone else's worst audiophile experience.

We all hear different, and we all have different tastes in music. One guy may think cones and domes are boring and dull, where another guy thinks they sound smooth and balanced. One guy may think horns speakers are dynamic and lively, while another guy may think they are bright and harsh.

This is why cheap solid state amplifiers and horn speakers don't work well together, unless it's for PA use. Where it doesn't really matter about sound quality, and it's more about power/SPL/reliability.

So when you mention you are looking for the best audiophile experience in speakers for 800-900 bucks, you won't get much in the way of recommendations. Someone may chime in and say yeah, such and such a speaker was the best I ever experienced for that price range, but will it be for you?

For 800-900 bucks, you could make some rather nice kit speakers that would trounce the Polk entry level floorstanders.

[meccalli 1]

hmmnn........in trinidad.....................seriously...is F@c#in $hit..everyone here wants to get loud until your ears bleed..........thee are the special ones like me who try to bring back the true love of music.there are no good places that offer the comfort of listening to audiophile equipment since there is pioneer and boss in 85% of all cars and panasonic and sony and onkyo in their houses..there are a couple stores but u have to make appointments and polk over here can get a rich guy broke..lol,,,(over here)but anyways yeah..i see your point and thanks.

[///M5 2,833]

If you have a lack of shops, I'd really look into building some from either of the two sites I recommend. Both Zaph and J. Marsh have rather great designs that can fit any budget and will destroy the Polks. Plus you get the benefit of being proud of what you built and can have the fun of building them. There are lots of other designs too, but without other background from you those are two really great places to get started.

[chad.SQ 0]

And if you really don't have the patience or don't feel like putting in the effort of creating your DIY shopping list, go to www.partsexpress.com or and take a look at their Speaker Building Kits. You just click "Buy" and they give you everything you need to build some speakers. They even include an instruction manual

[Big E 4]

Personally you should do a LOT of research before jumping into buying a set of floor standers. If you bought those Polk speakers I would only shake my head. HTIB is not the way to go.

This coming from the person with a Sony receiver and KEF speakers? Hypocrisy at its best.

If you're solely looking to buy speakers, the Monitor 70's are a very nice floor standing speaker, and if you look at circuit city are being clearanced out so you can get a really good deal on them (getting the new TSI line up). Another set of great floor standing speakers are the Klipsch F3's (Better than the polk's, IMO).

[seanbw 1]

monitor audio rs6's are the best bang for the buck out there. i got a pair for my pops and he loves em, i also use their silver reference bookshelf (rs1) for my surrounds, they actually sound better than my front stage too :\ (klipsch rvx54's & rc25). but don't listen to me, just read any home audio reviews on the speakers, heres a start:

http://www.hometheatermag.com/floorloudspe...itor/index.html

got my pair for around 600.

[chad.SQ 0]

Personally you should do a LOT of research before jumping into buying a set of floor standers. If you bought those Polk speakers I would only shake my head. HTIB is not the way to go.

This coming from the person with a Sony receiver and KEF speakers? Hypocrisy at its best.

The receiver and KEF's were given to me. I would never be in his guys boat considering to spend several hundred dollars on Best Buy shelf speakers. I'm a true beginner but at least I know what not to buy...

[MikeS 0]

"plasma-friendly speakers"

WTF is a plasma friendly speaker? Good lord......reminds me of the "digital ready" trip they used to blather about when CD players first came out......

If I were to recommend modern Klipsch speakers, I'd stick with the Reference series line.

Some of the '80's-'90's Legend series aren't bad, either. I had Chorus II's. My audio buddy has Chorus I. Forte I or II would be a good speaker for the right price.

My Chorus II's stock had a hot midrange, with kind of thin but tight bass. They had 15" direct radiators in the back, and corner placement helped strengthen the bass. But I have chitty corners.....

I even went boutique on a crossover upgrade with caps, resistors, and inductors. But those Chorus II's always seemed hot in the midrange. I kinda wished I played with attenuation with respect midrange, before I sold them and bought '83 Cornwalls.

My audio friend picked up a pair of Chorus I's local for dirt cheap. He thought the midrange was hot as well.

He found the TS parameters for the 15" woofer used on Chorus I, (K-48) and quickly seen that the enclosure size is too small for that 15" woofer.

He ended up using polyfil in the enclosure and came out with lower and smoother bass response.

Cornwalls have a much more laid back midrange than the Chorus II, way more tolerable. They have a bit of a bump around 60ish Hz or so, which seems to work well with classic rock n roll. Cornwalls sound pretty good with about anything, except straight up grindcore or something....but that usually applies with all Klipsch.

Cornwalls are good bang for the buck Klipsch speakers.

One Legend series I would like to audition or own, would be the KLF-30's. If Klipsch has a speaker that can play rock n roll well, I'm pretty sure it would be the KLF-30.

Forget about Klipsch Heresy....unless you want the bass to promptly roll-off at 60Hz, with a screechy mid/top-end because the bass is so attenuated, that the midrange and tweeter seem accentuated.

Klipsch Lascala's with a mediocre solid state amplifier or receiver can sound absolutely wretched. But take the same LaScala's and hook them up a nice single-ended triode tube amp, and they turn into musical beasts of beauty......I never met more of a finicky speaker with regards to amplification......

Klipschorns tightly sealed in the corners for best bass response, and in the right sized room can sound rather nice with the bass. They can dig down like subwoofers, and can couple up a smaller room pretty quick with not much power. They are like LaScala's with actual LF response.......

I heard a pair with Trachorn's, Beyma tweeters, and ALK ES crossover networks. That was quite a refined sounding pair of Klipschorns. But even a stock pair of K-horns still sound great.

LaScala and Khorn throw off a big house filling sound. I have heard the Klipschorn Jubilees, and they throw off even a bigger sound that dwarfs the other two.

There is my blathering braindead lowdown on Klipsch...... See how all these speakers have their own sound characteristics....and it's just one brand.

Mike

[seanbw 1]

well..im looking to accomplish the best audiophile experience for around 800 -900 bucks...excluding amps/receiver/subwoofer

theres a budget for cable.......

[KU40 173]

"plasma-friendly speakers"

WTF is a plasma friendly speaker? Good lord......reminds me of the "digital ready" trip they used to blather about when CD players first came out......

If I would guess I'd say it's just a fancy way of saying they're shielded.