Hey I'm JR, and I'm here today to talk about the new Polk Legend series of
speakers, the best speakers Polk has ever built. It's their flagship line of
speakers right now, and it is a full line of speakers including two bookshelf
models, the L100 and the L200, two floor-standing models, the L600 and the
L800, a center channel speaker, the L400, and height speakers that can be added on
top of the floor standing speakers, that's the L900. The Legend series of
speakers is available in two different colors, the black ash and brown walnut
finishes. Both look amazing, very elegant, very nice. All of the speakers feature
Polk's new redesigned Pinnacle ring radiator tweeter. They've been using a
ring radiator tweeter in their best speakers for years now, they have
redesigned it with a new waveguide that gives you a broader sweet spot and plays
higher. You could consider them high-res certified, playing all the way up to 38 kHz.
Polk has also designed a new mid-range or mid-woofer speaker with a
turbine design, and those turbines aren't just there to look cool, they actually
reduce distortion in that critical mid-range where your ear can really pick
them up the best. The mid-range woofers use a foam core to keep the material
lightweight and stiff and rigid, giving you good clean sound. All of the speakers
in the Polk Legend line also use Polk's newly redesigned power port, they improve
the geometry on it so it does an even better job of reducing port noise or
"chuffing", so less distortion and more bass. Polk has also done a really nice
job of cabinet design. Not only do they look great, but they are internally
braced and shaped in a way to reduce internal standing waves and to not add
any extra resonance to the sound. The Legend speakers all have a 4-ohm
impedance, and a sensitivity rating of between 85 to 87 dB. All of that means
you really should use a nice, strong high-current amplifier to make them sound
their best. We've been using a Marantz Ruby CD transport along with a Marantz
Ruby integrated amp to power these speakers, and that's a lot of power,
especially for the little bookshelfs, but it is perfectly matched for the
large floor-standing L800 speakers. They really sang for us
as we demoed them with all sorts of music in several different rooms, and we
absolutely love them. And as you may notice, there's something a little
different about them. There are indeed two sets of tweeters and two sets of
mid-range speakers, that is Polk's Stereo Dimensional Array. It is a technology
designed to make sure that the stereo image is perfect. Your right ear hears
the right, your left ear hears the left. With traditional speakers that don't use
this, your right ear will hear some of what's coming out of the left
speaker, and the same thing for your left ear, hearing what's coming out of the
right speaker. SDA seeks to reduce that interaural crosstalk, which could be a
form of distortion, and allows a broader, wider stereo soundstage. Really, we've
tested this in several rooms and it really does give a nice stereo image
pretty much anywhere, whether you're sitting in the sweet spot or well off
axis to the left and to the right. It also allows you to put your speakers
even farther apart, so if you if you can't set up a perfect two-channel
listening situation, or if you have a larger room, don't worry, they're gonna
fill the room and create great stereo imaging at the same time. The L800s
also come with an extra cable, and that's there to make Stereo Dimensional Array
work. And each left and right speaker comes with a 15-foot cable. You can use
just one if all you need is 15 feet, or you can put the two cables together to
create up to 30 feet of space between your left and your right speaker. You may
also notice that where the tweeter and the mid-range are that's an angled
baffle, or the the front of it is at a 15-degree angle with the speakers facing a
little to the left and a little to the right. The speakers facing in are
specifically that way so that they can be naturally toed in or pointed at you
in your sweet spot listening position. The bass on these L800s is
incredible, deep, heart-pounding bass, hits all the way down to 24 Hertz thanks to
the two 10-inch woofers, and the huge power port on the bottom of these speakers
really gives you great bass anywhere in the room. Both the L600 and the L800
can be bi-wired or bi-amplified, so if you want to throw even more power at
them you definitely can. You will be rewarded. Thank you so much for watching,
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