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JoeDotCom's confused smattering of toys.

JoeDotCom

JoeDotCom

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A friend of mine came over this weekend to play with my new to me Avid 103's I took some photos to share w/ ya'll....

I am going to come back and type out the model info for all the toys in a bit. photos first. :)

I borrowed a Crown CE 1000 Amp to play with. But I needed a preamp, so i had a Numark EM-360 that we hooked up. This room is normally the kid's play room, so this setup only lasted for the night then got broken down.
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Denon Turntable (that my friend brought over for us to listen to)
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Avid 103 (Manufactured July 12th 1977)
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Polk RTA 12b (thanks for the identification help tx_polkhead) The original owner had a wooden lid made for the speakers to keep their cats from ruining the top grill. (it looks like it would be really comfy up there if I was a cat.)
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Office / Gaming room (PS3)
Sony Sony STR-DB830 Receiver and Dell 5.1 speaker system
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Installing the correct fuses
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The 103's safe in my office for movie time.
Panasonic 47" projection screen Model PT-47WX53G
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Thanks Rome. I love the Polks. :)

Last weekend was really the first time i was able to really open them up. Living in a townhouse w/ my kids upstairs makes it tough to really rock out. I was really impressed w/ the Polks. (The Avids held their own too). The crown did not blow me away though. I expected it to be way too powerful for the speakers. Its twin ce 1000 drives all the speakers on our football field, loud! So, i was surprised when i was able to turn it up to 100% and not need to pick chunks of the speaker surrounds out of my teeth.
 
Joe-
your sig says 'Polk RTA 12(C?) ' I am pretty sure they are 12B's by the look of the tweeter, also what does the crossover board say on the right edge (looks like a B to me but the pic is a bit blurry)? My C's have the SL2000 silver voice coil tweeters (less desirable than yours) and the CO boards say 'RTA 12 __ ISOPHASE CROSSOVER where the blank should have A B or C written in, I guess.
 
Wow TX, you Rock!!! I was pretty sure they were C's based on my google image searching. I can't believe it said the model right there. Wicked, thanks for the discovery.

So from what I have read, the B's have a diffrent (as you said, more desirable) tweeter. What is the diffrence? And why would a presumably later model (C comes after B) have a lessor driver?


Thanks again for A) looking and B) for the tip!!!

-Happy Joe



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The earlier Polks with the Pearless tweeter have quite the following. The SL2000 Silver Coil tweeter is said to have a spike that some find harsh, it sounds good to me. The later SL2500 'black dome' tweeter found on some later models is an improvement over the silverss, but I don't have any pearless to compatre them to.
You can see my RTA's here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/aas.sanchez/PolkAudioRTA12C?feat=directlink
Some day I'll think about updating the crossover parts.
 
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Reorganizing the office/media room. Pulled the CV VS-120s out to play with. Been a while since I have played them.
 
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OMFG!!!! When I was maybe 19 and broke I saw and heard a pair of those in a guys basement in Waynesville MO and I just thought those were the coolest ever. I have not seen another pair since. Anywhere, even online. Thanks for the trip.
 
System update July 2nd 2011

Just adding some updated pics and model numbers:

PHONO: Technics SL-QD33
CART: M12E-U
GAME: PS3 Slim (BFBC2 FTW!)
CLAN: Team MP (The Parents' Playground: teammp.net)
SACD: MARANTZ DV6600
RECEIVER: Onkyo SR705
PREAMP: Numark EM-360*
SUB / 5.1: Altec Lancing 5.1 THX PC Speaker system**
SPEAKERS: Polk RTA 12B
TV: Panasonic rear projection

*It appears that the phono input on the SR705 is dead. no signal from a phono source, and even tried a known working CD player to verify signal presence with no luck. so the Numark is my preamp for now.

** the PC 5.1 kit is just here to supplement until i can figure out what to use for my rear channel for gaming. :) I do not have the front speakers on Altec system plugged in. only the center and rears are connected.


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reorganized a bit. Got my pioneer sx 980 back up and running. and stacked my avid 103's on top of my freshly repared pioneer cs-63dx's. (only listening to 1 pair at a time, both sound awesome)

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Gotta show off the new goodies / arrangement:

tube amp: Grant Fidelity MS-2A3 (one of only two in existence)

squeezebox (How did I live without this thing?)

Currently the SX-980 is only acting as a phono pre for the turntable.

I packed away the Avid 103 and the Pioneer CX-63DX pairs for a bit.

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Sent (and possibly poorly voice-to-text transcribed) on a mobile device. :)
 
I like it! You've got some very nice equipment there, with some great looking layouts.

I'm surprised I didn't see the Sherwood RX-5502 in there someplace. :)
 
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I like it! You've got some very nice equipment there, with some great looking layouts.

I'm surprised I didn't see the Sherwood RX-5502 in there someplace. :)
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Thanks Bill.

The Sherwood never made it into my listening room since it was dead to the world until you were able to work your magic on it. (Plus I try to avoid posting pics of my cluttered "workbench" area where my non-working toys live.)

:)
 
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