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Great Product from Polk
Written By
, San Jose, CA on Tuesday, January 12, 2010
I purchased these speakers for an in-wall application in a "music room" in my house. This is a room that is a bit narrow with a high vaulted ceiling. They are powered by a low end Sony stereo receiver, and they replace a couple of Bose bookshelf speakers that were hanging high up on the wall. The Bose speakers sounded decent, but the Polk RC85i speakers perform much better. No "home theatre" application here, just straight music listening. Installation was very easy; my son was up in the attic to ensure the clips rotated behind the drywall as I secured them in place. Because they are mounted up on the wall where the attic space is behind them, I was thinking I would have to enclose the backs of them, but there's no need. I was also thinking that I would have to add a powered sub-woofer to the set up, but these Polks put out plenty of low end bass.
The only knock I have on them is that the mid-range is a little bit weak. But at this price, they are an excellent buy. So, 4-stars just for the mid-range weakness. I would not hesitate to buy these again. I am now seriously planning to purchase the RC55i or RC65i for my home theatre set up in the family room.
Great job, Polk. And great service from Crutchfield.
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5
out of 5
Impressive Speakers!
Written By
T. Allen, Prescott, AZ on Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Bought these in-wall speakers to replace a pair of old, smaller in-wall
speakers high up in our great room which are paired to an older "shelf"
stereo system.
Installation was easy, once I enlarged the wall openings.
We only use these speakers for music (our TV is in another room), and
they sound great! WOW! Plenty of crisp highs, and solid bass--and a huge
improvement over the old speakers.
Since these speakers are up high, I couldn't really aim the tweeters down
enough to point at our listening area, so I aimed them up at the ceiling
instead (to bounce down to the listening area), and they sound awesome!
One other note: These speakers are in a wall which backs onto a small
"attic" area, not in a smaller wall cavity between 2 studs. I was
worried that the area was too large to be an effective speaker "cabinet," but
was pleasantly surprised to find out that this issue doesn't seem to effect
the sound at all. (Can't wait to see how they sound once i can afford a new
receiver!)
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5
out of 5
Simple and clean
Written By
Chris, Twin Cities, MN on Thursday, October 29, 2009
Have a very low key home theater. My wife did not want speakers all over our basement. These installed very easy and once the grills were painted, they basically disappeared. I accompanied these with the RC65i. Nothing earth shattering but it sounds very clean which is what I wanted. For the price it's a great buy.
I also have to say that the templates Polk provides were very nice, not flimsy or cheap like another brand I used for my center channel.
FYI Grill painting tip: I hosed one of my grills trying to paint it using a dry brush technique. (which I read online) I probably was moving to fast, or used to much paint, and the paint just did not lay right (first time ever doing it so)..I finally just went and found a spray paint color that closely matched our wall color and this worked a lot better, looked like they were done from the factory. Or they have those spray cans than you can put your wall paint into that will spray, but I heard mix reviews on those so.
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5
out of 5
Great Speaker for the price
Written By
, Ohio on Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Speakers were very easy to install and sound great with my Denon receiver.
Some say these may not sound good do to the fact they use the wall as the speaker
box. If your wall is insulated like mine the wall makes the perfect cavity. I simply
removed the insulation from behind the speaker then the cavity made the perfect
speaker box.
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5
out of 5
Polk Audio RC85i
Written By
pham, cherry hill, nj on Friday, September 25, 2009
excellent speaker for the bathroom. great sound and nice bass. didnt
know it would sound this good. shape goes well with the shower shape
and skylight. very easy install.
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