Kingsley, russ69, and millercarbon, If your questions are directed at me, I would politely counsel you to actually seek out and listen to a pair of Polk RT-2000p’s or RT-2000i’s before you so causally dismiss Polk’s RT-2000p’s as “mediocre.”
For example, it would be ludicrous for me to offer an opinion on how millercarbon’s new Teckton Moabs sound: I’ve never heard any so how could I possibly offer an opinion on how they sound? Doing so would make a poser and an audio store cowboy.
I would wager none of you never have actually listened to Polk RT-2000p speakers and are simply trashing them like many people who pile on and trash Bose speakers without having ever actually listened to any.
I managed a very high-end store back in the 70’s and early 80’s. Our store actually took in a pair of the early 901’s Series 1 (A rather inefficient acoustic suspension version supposedly better than their latter bass reflex models) in mint condition with undamaged surrounds to the small individual drivers as a favour to a customers spending a very large sum with us. He was moving from a Sansui receiver powering his 901’s to Mark Levinson electronics, a Sequerra tuner, a Linn LP-12, and full size Magnaplanar speakers. We waived the hefty sales tax as his 901’s trade in value. It was a sweet deal for all as he was amazed at the magical sound of his new speakers driven by his new electronics.
We only had one problem: I can truthfully say these 901’s were the worst sounding $1,000+ speakers any of us in the store had ever heard. But as my brother-in-law who owns some car dealership says in the car business they say there’s an ass for every seat.🤪 And sure enough, we sold them for a slight profit a week after we finally opened in our new location to a student who always wanted a pair but could not afford new ones. He (and we) were ecstatic when he took them off our hands.
Now, a bit of backstory explaining why we thought they sounded terrible. Our store was built from scratch inside a former A&P grocery store our owner purchased. We completely gutted the store even down to removing SIX layers of tile that had been put down over the 50 year+ life of the store.
And the owner spared no expense making it a incredibility good sounding store. He hired acoustical engineers to design three fantastic listening rooms we had surge protection at the three breaker boxes necessary to power the store, and we ran multiple individual 30 amp/120V circuits to each of our showrooms, even including the service shop. The electrical contractor told us it his first ever job where he never installed any 15 amp or 20 amp 120V circuits.
We even put up a big-ass multi-element yagi FM antenna on a ten foot tower with a rotator running multiple powered FM feeds to each show room as we sold a shitload of FM tuners because we were in a central physical location from the student FM stations at Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State University, and Shaw University in Raleigh. And I remember we had at least 3 complete commercial album rock FM stations , two classical music FM stations, and we even had an album-oriented Modern Jazz station in our area. It was the absolute best FM environment I’ve ever lived in.
l’m going into all this detail because we actually listened to the 901’s under the best possible conditions and we tried numerous placements in our new location after we finally opened in October. We played them on high powered SS and tube electronics and nothing we did could make these things sound good. You just cannot puts lipstick on a pig. 🐷
So when people trash brands like Bose or Polk or JBL or Klipsch or Sony, etc. the first thing I want to know is did they actually listen to what they’re trashing or are they just an audio store cowboy who’s just another poser.
If you’ve actually listened to what you’re trashing then I can at least respect your opinion even I may have a different one. But if you’re a poser trying to fit in and/or be accepted by other audiophiles, you’re just spewing verbal diarrhea, your opinions are vapid and meaningless.
As always, YMMV 😎
