Polk Audio portable CD Player?

**steveinaz** · 01-06-2005 01:57 PM

Would you buy an "audiophile grade" Polk Audio portable CD Player if it were available?

**Danny Tse** · 01-06-2005 02:05 PM

I voted "Yes, if under $75.00". Provided it sounds good. There are a number of very good sounding portable CD player out there for about $55.00.

**dorokusai** · 01-06-2005 03:27 PM

No.

**AsSiMiLaTeD** · 01-06-2005 03:30 PM

IMO, Polk should just stick to making speakers. Seems that when companies start branching out to make various products, quelity suffers.

I'm sure this isn't always the case, and don't want to start a war of opinions on the topic, that's just my two cents.

**2+2** · 01-06-2005 03:31 PM

IMO, the key to portable devices sounding good are the ear/headphones..... Over the years, I found I like Sony ear buds alot compared to other headphones out there.

**VR3** · 01-06-2005 03:53 PM

No

**madmax** · 01-06-2005 04:19 PM

No... I would prefer SDA's

madmax

**VR3** · 01-06-2005 04:35 PM

How bout SDA headphones?

**RuSsMaN** · 01-06-2005 04:43 PM

All headphones are SDA already.

I'd buy a Polk CDP, sure. Esp if had a dig coax output.

Cheers,
Russ

**AsSiMiLaTeD** · 01-06-2005 04:48 PM

I'm thinking though...I wouldn't really see any need for Polk to make one of these....but...if they did actually manufacture it, I'd end up buying it anyway...

**PolkThug** · 01-06-2005 07:00 PM

The market is so flooded with CD players, it doesn't seem worthwhile. I'd rather Polk focus on speakers, and making better subwoofers.

**dorokusai** · 01-06-2005 08:03 PM

Originally posted by PolkThug
The market is so flooded with CD players, it doesn't seem worthwhile. I'd rather Polk focus on speakers, and making better subwoofers.

Yea, no kidding, I agree.

**Shizelbs** · 01-06-2005 08:05 PM

Yeah, I'd buy it.

Later I would hook it up into my Panasonic tube car stereo.

**mrmusicman** · 01-07-2005 12:17 PM

I would like a portable sacd- dvd audio player so i could spin these disks someplace other than my livingroom.

**polksda** · 01-07-2005 02:54 PM

I think the poll is flawed. You assume that the max anyone would pay is $100. What if I'm willing to pay more than $100 for a true audiophile-grade portable unit?

The idea of a portable SACD unit is an interesting idea as well (although fitting 6 analog outputs would be interesting :D :D)

**steveinaz** · 01-07-2005 04:00 PM

Nah, you and I and Polk know you could build one hellava Portable CDP under $100, with a real good profit margin still there.

Remember, there are $39 DVD players out there now....

**bknauss** · 01-07-2005 04:07 PM

Originally posted by Polkmaniac
IMO, Polk should just stick to making speakers. Seems that when companies start branching out to make various products, quelity suffers.

And given the current market for speakers (amount of money spent on speakers by consumers is on a definite decline), if you don't branch out from speakers, a company the size of Polk will either not grow or will lose money. You can see Polk is morphing a bit with car amps and the XM tuner.

Another company that has been booming lately that is also branching out is Adire. They used to be almost exclusively subs, then added mid/high drivers, and now have amps, along with trying to branch out a bit more with electronics.

**Danny Tse** · 01-07-2005 04:43 PM

Originally posted by bknauss
And given the current market for speakers (amount of money spent on speakers by consumers is on a definite decline), if you don't branch out from speakers, a company the size of Polk will either not grow or will lose money. You can see Polk is morphing a bit with car amps and the XM tuner.

Another company that has been booming lately that is also branching out is Adire. They used to be almost exclusively subs, then added mid/high drivers, and now have amps, along with trying to branch out a bit more with electronics.

Yeah, even Boston Acoustics is branching out to high-end home theater receivers. BA is introducing 2 receivers at the CES right now.

**Toxis** · 01-07-2005 05:40 PM

Originally posted by PolkThug
The market is so flooded with CD players, it doesn't seem worthwhile. I'd rather Polk focus on speakers, and making better subwoofers.

EXACTLY!

**F1nut** · 01-07-2005 07:23 PM

NO!

Originally posted by polksda

The idea of a portable SACD unit is an interesting idea as well (although fitting 6 analog outputs would be interesting)

You do know that SACD plays in 2 channel don't you.

**polksda** · 01-07-2005 11:11 PM

Originally posted by F1nut
NO!

You do know that SACD plays in 2 channel don't you.

Yeah, I was just taking it to an absurd extreme (I should have put a smiley in there or something).

**F1nut** · 01-07-2005 11:24 PM

Oops, forgot mine.....:)

**brettw22** · 01-08-2005 01:02 AM

Originally posted by F1nut
You do know that SACD plays in 2 channel don't you.

I was actually gonna ask what the point of a portable SDA unit would have been with just 2 speakers.......*shrug* haven't bought one, haven't heard one.......

**Danny Tse** · 01-08-2005 01:24 AM

Actually, an audiophile portable CD player (PCDP) may not be a bad idea. Especially if it decodes SACD. I mean, people are willing to spend several hundred dollars to buy a clock radio with CD playback, so why not an audiophile PCDP? Sure, it will not appeal to those teenagers with cheapo PCDPs or those with MP3 players, but I think there's enough of an audiophile market for such a product. After all, if someone can successfully market a $20.00 marker that can improve sound quality of CDs....

**dorokusai** · 01-08-2005 01:54 AM

Yea, I dream of the day when I can listen to SACD when I'm taking a dump in Home Depot.

SACD and the like media, is a niche market and will be for some time....too many confusing formats being introduced for anyone to realize wtf is going on.

I mean, the uneducated consumer...which is essentially 80% of the customer base.

Dream on little dreamers, latch onto what you want, just make a choice and stick with it, does it really need endless discussion? Is your singular argument about the benefits of one or the other going to matter to the manufacturers....let me answer that, no.

**steveinaz** · 01-08-2005 09:15 AM

I'd like to see more HDCD releases, they sound fantastic on standard Redbook players, and even better on HDCD decoded players...

SACD and DVD-A are a dead-end.

**amulford** · 01-08-2005 09:49 AM

What alot of you aren't realizing is that although we see ourselves, i.e. "audiophiles", as a large group, the reality of the matter is that we are a very small group in terms of the "mass market". WE might buy it for the quality of playback, but you average joe doesn't know the difference. How do you think Monster got to be so big? Because the average consumer doesn't really understand enough about the technologies they are buying to know a difference...

Sorry folks, hate to say it. But were all a bunch of "Audio Nerds". Might as well face it.

As for me, I'd buy one. But I'm a geek

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