Product Description
POLK RTi8 - Why settle for vinyl speakers when you can have the warmth and beauty of real wood at the same price, with speakers from the RTi Series. They are wonders of industrial design: real wood, radiant with metallic highlights and racing car lines. Classic Polk performance in a design that speaks to today's high-end home décor. Polk speaker cabinets are resonance-free. All wood cabinet Polk Audio loudspeakers are constructed of costly low-resonance MDF instead of the cheaper and more resonant particle board used by many competitive speaker brands. RTi Series Speakers feature additional anti-resonance strategies, like asymmetric braces. Efficiency 90 dB Crossover 2.2kHz, 12dB/Oct Low Pass, 18dB/Octave High Pass Inputs Dual (bi-amp) gold plated 5-way binding posts Unit Dimensions - Cabinet Size 41-5/8 H x 7-3/4 W x 15-1/2 D (105.73cm H x 19.68cm W x 39.37cm D) Enclosure Type Vented via Power Port - PowerPort bass venting for superior clean, low distortion bass that you can really feel Magnetic shielding for safe placement near video sources. Mylar bypass capacitors in the crossovers extend high frequency response and improve detail and transparency
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4905 in Consumer Electronics
- Color: Black
- Brand: Polk Audio
- Model: AM0735
- Dimensions: 41.63" h x 15.50" w x 7.75" l, 55.00 pounds
Features
- A single real wood floorstanding speaker with all MDF construction and resonance-free enclosures
- Equipped with dual 6.5-inch polymer composite cone drivers with rubber surrounds
- Features a neodynium magnet and a heat sink on the back of the magnet
- Equipped with one 1-inch silk/polymer composite dome tweeter
- PowerPort Plus bass venting ensures superior clean, low distortion bass
Customer Reviews
beautiful speakers
i'm not an audiophile. and i couldn't tell the difference among speakers once they reach certain level. this is a beautiful pair of speakers that works for me. sound is excellent. proportion is gorgeous.
not bad for a retail speaker...
...I disagree with the previous reviewer's advice to get the RTi10 instead because the RTi10 and RTi12 both require a much stronger amp to drive to their fullest potential, for not that much more benefit in terms of overall sound quality.
Actually the best course of action would be to get the RTi6 bookshelf speakers and put your savings into a quality powered subwoofer which will not only go lower and louder in terms of bass, but take a lot of pressure off your amp/receiver when crossed over, allowing the speakers' mids and highs to really shine. This is especially true if home theater use is your primary concern.
Generally your best price to performance value will come from Internet-direct manufacturers, particularly in the subwoofer department: a Hsu or SVS sub will effortlessly decimate any comparably priced store-bought sub from Polk, Infinity, Klipsch, Sony, Yamaha, etc. Also worth looking at Internet-direct speakers from Ascend, AV123 dot com, as well as Hsu and SVS.
Google is your friend: do your homework, read professional and user reviews, and you'll be far better off for it!
not bad at all
If you can get this on sale cheap then go for it because they are awesome, but in all honesty if you can afford to spend a little more then I highly recommend the Rti10's instead. You will be getting more for the money with the 10's than these.
Although I did own these at once and enjoyed them big time. They sound great but are a little bulky considering theres no woofers. I had to dock one star because of that fact, such a tall tower speaker and no woofers, only a pair of mids and a tweeter. Seemed kinda useless to have such a large cabinet for so little, like I said before you will be getting more for youre money if you go with the Rti10's.
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