So, im upgrading my ~10 years old Dynaudio DM 2/7 to polk r700. Always wanted floorstanders, but lived in an apartment before.

Also my yamaha as701 to rotel rc-1572 with a D-amp NCore NCX500 modules.

This will be my endgame. In the long run it will be prolly fine, but having abit buyers remorse now.

  • DaytonaDemon@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Polk doesn’t seem to be a brand that makes much of an impact in the audiophile world. But maybe they make a couple of terrific speakers that can play with the big boys — I don’t profess to know…

    A Stereophile review of an affordable speaker from Polk started like this:

    Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re thinking: “Polk? You’re reviewing a speaker from Polk? Get ready for the flames!”

    And it ended as follows:

    It’s a lot of speaker for the money. It never sounded bad—the slight tendency toward warmth and slight loss of HF sparkle were certainly not offensive traits, and could even work in the speaker’s favor when it’s teamed with inexpensive electronics.

    You can pick up the hint: that’s a reviewer trying very hard to write nice things about a product he didn’t like.

    The magazine also did a more positive review of the $1,200/pr Polk L100s, so I could be talking out of my rear end.

    Dynaudio is a legendary brand, but in the end that may not matter. I’d let my ears be the judge.