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Polk Reserve R200 Bookshelf Speakers Black

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R600: For some strange reason, the treble in the lyrical passages here is emphasized a little more with R600, while the bass is hefty in the Crescendo. Actually, it is also significant on the lyrical parts compared to R200. This tweeter comes directly from Polk’s flagship Legend series, and its ring radiator design means no central dome to enter break-up modes, so here achieving lower distortion within the listening range and indeed beyond, as the Pinnacle is ‘hi-res certified’. R600:As expected, a little more focus on the extremes with the floor model, but without it going to the detriment of the sound in Kari Bremnes' vocals. If you had the space and was thinking into getting speakers with very extended frequency reponse to take advantage of a large space where you can play loud, then it is an other conversation, but, you have a small space with neighbors.

The top model L800 is a very special model, and is a continuation of Polk Audio's classic SDA concept, which in this latest incarnation involves two rows of treble and midrange elements angled apart mounted in a baffle where the upper part has a bend in the middle. The On-axis Frequency Response (0°) is the universal starting point and in many situations it is a fair representation of the first sound to arrive at a listener’s ears. I have heard and used the Marantz PM8006 and currently own the Audiolab 6000A. Can give you some views on them. Below the tuning frequency, the output of the port and the transducer become out of phase with each another so that the bass drops off faster than for a sealed-box design. Above the tuning frequency, also, the open-ended pipe creates what are often called pipe-organ resonances that can cloud the midrange. So Polk’s new Power Port 2.0 works also to clean up the upper bass and midrange.The treble is combined with a 6½-inch for midrange / bass, and this in combination with a larger cabinet volume gives experience and naturally greater depth in the bass than with a 5¼-inch that the kid brother R100 is equipped with. On the other hand, there is often a very smooth transition between treble and midrange with a five-inch than a larger midrange / bass in a two-way speaker, so one should be a little careful about making solid assumptions about what is the better speaker of R100 and R200. And then of course we have the price factor, where a price difference of a couple of thousand kroner means that R100 must rather be defined as the upper part of the budget class.

I recently bought some Kef q150s. I'm playing them through a niles SI 2100 amp with a Sonos Connect plugged into it. I use the max stream setting in Spotify to stream to the connect. These Turbine Cone drivers have also been adopted in the unaltered version from the Legend series. That is - it applies to the 5 ¼ and 6 ½-inch versions - the four-inch in the R350 and R900 is not available in the Legend series. POWER PORT + X-PORTFortunately, now we have the Spinorama data for a bunch of quite popular speakers. Pierre Aubert put all this untidy data together and put it into https://www.spinorama.org/. This is a stunning source. Pretty valuable stuff from him right there.

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