I purchased all of the Polk Monitor XT speakers for evaluation as an entire model lineup (except the Atmos speaker). I was able to do so out of my own funds with support from my Patrons and donations. If you’d like to help out with future reviews please see the bottom of this review.
Read moreI purchased all of the Polk Monitor XT speakers for evaluation as an entire model lineup (except the Atmos speaker). I was able to do so out of my own funds with support from my Patrons and donations. If you’d like to help out with future reviews please see the bottom of this review.
Read moreThis speaker was loaned to me by Emotiva. They did not see the review before it was published.
Read moreI tested this speaker over a year ago when I did not have the Klippel Near Field Scanner. I wanted to test it again with the Near Field Scanner so I could have comparable data with my more recent reviews. Neumi was kind enough to send me a pair out to review again. The results do differ from my previous review (link) namely in the midrange where my old results were more linear by about 1.5dB (or so) but I’m not too bothered by this. I verified with Neumi that the speaker hasn’t changed so most likely the lower resolution of my old method lead to less than perfect matching between my ground plane method and farfield gated response. That combined with the higher resolution of the NFS yields a more representative result today. For what it’s worth, I tested the passive speaker from the powered set on the NFS and got practically the same result as this speaker.
Read moreI purchased these speakers myself with funding from my Patrons.
Read moreThis speaker was loaned to me by the owner. I was only loaned a single and was therefore only able to conduct listening tests in mono.
Read moreThe review on this website is a brief overview and summary of the objective performance of this speaker. It is not intended to be a deep dive. Moreso, this is information for those who prefer “just the facts” and prefer to have the data without the filler.
Read moreThese speakers were loaned to me by Emotiva. They did not see the review before it was published.
Read moreThese speakers were sent to me by Dayton directly. I sent them back before I had the chance to take photos of my own.
Read moreThe review on this website is a brief overview and summary of the objective performance of this speaker. It is not intended to be a deep dive. Moreso, this is information for those who prefer “just the facts” and prefer to have the data without the filler.
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