Eat less outdoors, save the money, and buy something better please! Still, without equalization and lots of playing around with that I don't see this being a useful speaker to live with, monetary savings be damned. is this the most broken thing Polk could design? No, that would require a lot of distortion as well which I did not find. The Polk Monitor 40 Series II is a great example of what you have to do to bring the cost down to crazy low yet keep the showroom appeal high. Power handling was excellent because there is essentially no sub-bass reproduction so my killer tracks of this kind did not do much to Monitor 40. It was still bright but likely if you add a sub, it would balance it out. This is a quick and dirty correction to make the sound bearable. This so called spinorama shows us just about everything we need to know about the speaker with respect to tonality and some flaws: Likewise listening tests are performed per research that shows mono listening is much more revealing of differences between speakers than stereo or multichannel.Īcoustic measurements can be grouped in a way that can be perceptually analyzed to determine how good a speaker is and how it can be used in a room. Measurements are compliant with latest speaker research into what can predict the speaker preference and is standardized in CEA/CTA-2034 ANSI specifications. I performed over 1000 measurement which resulted in error rate of less than 1% or so. In a nutshell, the measurements show the actual sound coming out of the speaker independent of the room. Both of these factors enable testing in ordinary rooms yet results that can be more accurate than an anechoic chamber. It also measures the speaker at close distance ("near-field") which sharply reduces the impact of room noise. This is a robotic measurement system that analyzes the speaker all around and is able (using advanced mathematics and dual scan) to subtract room reflections (so where I measure it doesn't matter). Measurements that you are about to see were performed using the Klippel Near-field Scanner (NFS).
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