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The Legend Lives On
As a long-time fan of Polk Audio products, I was pleased to see the company re-enter the mid-high-end speaker market with its Legend L800 SDA Pro-equipped loudspeaker and read Al Griffin’s review in Sound & Vision’s December 2019/January 2020 issue with enthusiasm. It made me reflect on my own journey with Polk Audio that started in 1985 with the Monitor 10B at a now-defunct Denver chain store named Soundtrack. When the store’s salesman removed the grille covers on the speakers and cranked up a song on CD from a new supergroup called the Power Station featuring Robert Palmer, I saw the dual 6.5-inch mid-bass drivers and the 10-inch passive radiator thump away and light up the room with music. Even as a semi-broke 23-year-old, I couldn’t write the check fast enough. I’ve held onto my Monitor 10Bs through three moves and they’ve endured many bumps and bruises. Thirty-five years later, they still sound beautiful in my garage.
My first experience with SDA was with SRS 3.1TL tower speakers. I bought a close-out model pair in the mid 1990s—again from Soundtrack—and they were my left and right main speakers when my DIY home theater was featured in magazine in June 2003. All speakers
