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In Reply to: RE: speakers for classic rock and blues posted by 430cruz on April 13, 2015 at 14:36:35
430Cruz,
what brand/year/model are those speakers?
Thanks.
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which loudspeakers did you buy?
fantja(a) , I did listen to Klipsch Heresy from a local seller, and found a pair of Polk Audio SDA-1C at a local hifi used store,and , after listening to those, went with the Polk.
Got a hold of Polk and they send me information on upgrading crossover, and tweeters, which I am in the process of.
I liked the fact that the Polk were a little smoother than the Heresy, and when I play some mellow blues, it sounded better to my ear.
however, I did get the bug, started reading a lot on web sites about building your own speakers, and I think I am going to try that.
Thanks for asking.
You made an intelligent and well considered choice. Trust your ears. When someone designs a loudspeaker, there's hundreds of variables that mostly all interact. Throw in cost and it gets really complicated. The result is that a designer chooses a series of compromises that end up giving the speaker a characteristic sound, one that best meets his/her design goals plus those of the Suits selling speakers. You get a "house sound" in many companies that have stable sets of goals, like you can always tell it's a Stratocaster, yea?
There are some speakers that sound great with all kinds of music, at high and low levels. In my experience, these are mostly expensive. Occasionally a modest price design really gets it almost all right. Going back to about 1980, the Polk Model 10 was an example. I just hooked my friend up with a sweet pair for $50- an amazing value. I've heard the big Polk SDA's and would say they get excellent results on an increasing scale but still have the Polk house sound, which is pretty fine.
Glad to see that you found a pair of 1C so close and quick too!
Also glad to see Polk offering support still.
Did they have the umbilical cord for between left and right speakers?
Periodically I look at the Polk forum and have seen guys talking about upgrades and updates to the old classic line. I may have to get some updated tweeters and stuff from them while they have it. After your thread, it got me thinking about my pair of 1C that my father is using (barely as he's almost deaf now) and I offered him a replacement speaker for my old Polks.
His response was priceless! "After all the speakers you've had in your house over the last three decades and I finally get an upgrade?"
Top ones are the Polk Audio SDA-SRS, there was also a Gen 2 called the SRS 1.2
Bottom ones are the Polk Audio SDA-1C, there was another variant with tweeters side by side instead of over top each other. The side by side version never sounded right to me, blurred the sound but the over/under version with tweeters turned 90 degrees sounded much better. It gave it more of a line source like the big SRS models.
The link lists the models and if you dig around that site look for the technical explanation of how they work.
I gave my father the SDA-1C speakers back in '92-'93 and they are still playing well to this day. Every time I go there I turn them on for a listen and remind him that if he ever wants to get rid of them that I am first dibs on getting them back.
Both these speakers throw a huge sound stage that sounds great anywhere around the room BUT, when you sit in the sweet spot they do something that few other speakers will do.
And J. Hirsch sums it up well.
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