polk look alikes?

[eugene65]

guys look at these speakers.... kinda looks like the lsi models

http://www.unitedhomeproducts.com/id61.htm

[tonyv1]

My best friend has Audes Soul speakers in his 2 channel setup. Solidly built, made in Estonia in a factory that use to make MIGs. Smooth sounding and not bottom heavy sounding at all. Checkout the speaker terminal, those things are huge! Standard dual bananas need not apply.

[Tour2ma]

Polk's not making six-footers anymore that I am aware of. Very strange looking with only two mid/bass drivers in a cabinet that tall.

Pretty tube mono-blocks, tho. And the Orpheus model is reminiscent of an old speaker line, whose name escapes me, but I remember it use the Heil air motion driver... It'll come to me...

[dthomps]

Hey Tour-
I agree, kinda weird looking speakers with that much space around the drivers. They remind me of Coneheads! :lol:
Not to diss the speaker, just found the look funny.
All current Polk's are shy of the 6 foot mark by a few feet, too bad I love the look of the monsters.

Are you referring to ESS? They look a little like a model by them called the AMT 1D. They also vaguely remind me of Wilson Audio too, don't know why.
Enjoy guys. Mike

[Tour2ma]

dt,

Yup ESS be the one. Thanks for the recall... It's the leaning back of the front of the speaker that reminded me of the ESS.

I believe Heil Air Motion Transformer was the full name of the driver it employed. I used to have a white paper on its design, but seems to be long gone, as is my memory of its design principles.

[dthomps]

Hey Tour, Thought that might be the one.
Check this out-
http://www.tricell-ent.com/Oskar.htm
Pretty interesting stuff.
Take it easy. Mike