If you missed other speaker deals, Polk monitor 60 $100/ea

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cytoSiN

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Sigh, waiting until February to set up another surround...hope there are still deals like this going on.
 

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<3 my polk monitor 60s
the polks show up rather frequently (every 1-2 months), with the 60s usually around 100-120
 
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wirednuts

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for the price theyre not bad just for the enclosures... a new set of cones and crossovers and those towers could blow your mind. and set you back another $500 of course
 

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ditto. i dont know how they rank overall, but i am very impressed at the frequency response range of the speakers.

they probably sound like most tower speakes in this price range. definitely good enough for most 'mp3 quality' audio that most of us have handy, or the sound you get with compressed or streaming movies, and a heck of a lot better then any home-theater-in-a-box type stuff, but you certainly can go a lot higher in clarity then what these can do.

38hz-25khz is an acceptable rating, and its hard to tell how speakers sound just by those numbers, but generally the 38hz rating means its loud at 100hz and trails off fast, and 25khz high end means a nice clean sound but still quite a ways from being crystal clear. they also have a max 200w power rating, which by looking at how many cones are in each tells me they are probably pretty weak at best. the sort of stuff that lasts for about 10 years at most, then cones start to fry out because they are made so thin... of course it all depends how you use them too.

i forgot to mention the crossovers in these are going to be extremely simplistic and likely somewhat limiting the overall sound too. like i said, for $200 this pair of towers is worth it just for the enclosures. use them for awhile as they come, then when the warranty runs out and you want to upgrade just replace the cones in these and hold onto your ears.
 
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reallyscrued

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they probably sound like most tower speakes in this price range. definitely good enough for most 'mp3 quality' audio that most of us have handy, or the sound you get with compressed or streaming movies, and a heck of a lot better then any home-theater-in-a-box type stuff, but you certainly can go a lot higher in clarity then what these can do.

38hz-25khz is an acceptable rating, and its hard to tell how speakers sound just by those numbers, but generally the 38hz rating means its loud at 100hz and trails off fast, and 25khz high end means a nice clean sound but still quite a ways from being crystal clear. they also have a max 200w power rating, which by looking at how many cones are in each tells me they are probably pretty weak at best. the sort of stuff that lasts for about 10 years at most, then cones start to fry out because they are made so thin... of course it all depends how you use them too.

i forgot to mention the crossovers in these are going to be extremely simplistic and likely somewhat limiting the overall sound too. like i said, for $200 this pair of towers is worth it just for the enclosures. use them for awhile as they come, then when the warranty runs out and you want to upgrade just replace the cones in these and hold onto your ears.

Seeing as how these are geared toward HT applications, I'd argue the 38hz low end figure is nothing more than a novelty. Most set ups will have a subwoofer that takes care of all frequencies below 80 hz (crossed-over properly) so trailing off fast at below 100hz is a bit of a non-issue. Who in their right mind even expects a 5.25inch speaker to make a sound that low that powerfully?

And the 25khz high end...do you mean to tell me you can actually pick up sounds past 20hz? You must have the hearing of a 4 year old baby. I know the dB scale is logarithmic and after a certain point on an SPL meter or frequency response chart, most speakers trail off exponentially in the high end but I'd say this is more than acceptable for $99 a speaker. You can always go "higher in clarity" if you had the cash to back it up.

Thanks for also knocking all the "mp3 quality" audio we have lying around...I suppose you could tell apart a lame v3.99 320kpbs VBR joint stereo file with a flac/wav through ABX testing? Well...I guess if you really do have the ears of a baby, I'd believe you.

No need to threadcrap dude. You sound like a guy who paid 100% more for your speakers for 2% more performance and are trying to justify it. Whatever helps you sleep at night I suppose.
 
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