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THE NEW POLK LEGEND SERIES

I recently read Dennis Burgers' review in Hometheaterreview on the smallest bookshelf model from Polks' new Legend series, the L100.
Ignore the review. This guy has a brain the size of a walnut. In the review he states " I plopped them out of the carton and put them up on the shelves", then proceeded to hook them up for listening evaluation and concluded the tweeter
performance was on the cool and bright side. No burn in time whatsoever to the crossover network.
Another typical "politcal" review to damage the sales of the new lineup. We all know that you never evaluate a good high end designed speaker unless its burned in at least 200 to 500 hours so the crossover components can reach their maximum synergy of performance. Having owned their top bookshelf in 2005, the LSI 9's, the tweeter performance of the Vifa ring tweeter was excellent and anything but cold and bright. At the time my kit included the Pass X-1 preamp and the Parasound Pl 2000 preamp , and the Nuforce Reference 9 mono's hooked up with Harmonic Technology cables. At the time, I sold my Paradigm Active 20's. The Polks' smoked the Paradigms. And now they have a new crossover designer, Scott Orth, who worked on the Lsim series, whose current work is superior to their previous crossover's. Look forward to honest, legitimate reviews in the near future of the new series and keeping my eye on the new L600 towers.
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yakbob
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I was originally very excited about the new legend series and seriously considered the new L800 for my next speaker. It would have been the first Polk product in my home but ruled it out when I saw the bobsled seating arrangement used in demos...in. every. single. demo.

While the SDA engineering makes sense, these speakers appear to have a sweet spot about 8" wide at the listening area.

Its odd that they market/demo the L800 as a 2-channel product, when many of the features appear to have value for home theater users. The drop in "height modules" for one, the required stadium/theater seating arrangement another. I suppose the surround and height speakers needed for surround playback would make up for the narrow sweet spot. I just wonder why they aren't going all in on the HT crowd, and demo the L800 with a full compliment of surround speakers. There's certainly a larger market.

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