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Session 5

Session 5

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Brace yourself, Alberta: the unseasonably warm weather is coming to an abrupt end.

Temperatures across the Prairies are expected to plunge this weekend by up to 40 degrees as the jet stream dips south, bringing with it a mass of cold Arctic air.

"It will be the coldest weather so far this winter across the Prairies," said Danielle Desjardin, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Desjardin predicts there will be extreme cold warnings issued across much of the region.

"For the city of Edmonton, a roughly 30 to 40 degree temperature drop is expected," said Global Edmonton weather specialist Phil Darlington
 
Oooff. That's rough.

We are having crazy temperature swings here, from 34 degress F just before dawn to 73 at lunchtime yesterday.
 
Session 5 said:
Brace yourself, Alberta: the unseasonably warm weather is coming to an abrupt end.

Temperatures across the Prairies are expected to plunge this weekend by up to 40 degrees as the jet stream dips south, bringing with it a mass of cold Arctic air.

"It will be the coldest weather so far this winter across the Prairies," said Danielle Desjardin, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Desjardin predicts there will be extreme cold warnings issued across much of the region.

"For the city of Edmonton, a roughly 30 to 40 degree temperature drop is expected," said Global Edmonton weather specialist Phil Darlington
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That's the crap we are getting here beginning on Monday, Norm

Like 6 F at night.
 
Cadorman said:
Eh, it's only -18F here at the moment. At least the snow is super solid.
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Cadorman, I remember the winter of 1984 when I was 20.

I spent a couple weeks in WVa in January where the temps were around -24 with -60 windchill. That was the coldest I have ever experienced here in the East.
 
Cadorman said:
On the positive side I did just pick up some 1982 (I believe) polk audio monitor 11s
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That is about when I was first learning of Polk Audio.

If I remember right, Polk was started near me. Just googled and I was right.

Polk Audio was founded by Matthew Polk, George Klopfer and Sandy Gross in 1972. The three first met one another while attending classes at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. After graduating in 1971, the team collaborated on producing a sound system for a local bluegrass music convention. Polk designed the speaker system, and Klopfer built the cabinets. After it was discovered the producers of the convention could not afford the system, Klopfer designed a logo for Polk Audio and attached it to the speakers. Gross organized the marketing of Polk Audio and helped build Polk's worldwide dealer network.

After spending a short period of time dabbling in professional audio, Polk Audio turned its attention to affordable high-performance home audio. With the release of the first successful model in 1974, the Monitor 7, Polk Audio was gaining recognition in audiophile circles. Polk Audio used a two-way configuration on almost all its speakers, such as the popular Monitor 10 and Monitor 12, typically with 6.5-inch mid/bass drivers with rubber surrounds and passive radiators. The Monitor 12 was quite capable for its day, having bass response to 18 Hz, a free-air mounted tweeter, and 500-watt RMS power handling. Later Polk speaker models used arrays of drivers—Stereo Dimensional Array (SDA)—to cancel the crosstalk from the left speaker to the right ear and from the right speaker to the left ear, so as to expand the stereo image beyond the space between two stereo speakers. The SDA effect is used in some current Polk speakers. The company also makes automobile speakers.[4]

In early 2015, most or all of Polk's non-technical jobs were moved from the Baltimore office to the headquarters of the parent company, Sound United, in Carlsbad, California. At that time, Polk's engineers joined with those of Definitive Technology, and the Audio and Acoustics Research and Development [ARAD] center was established in Owings Mills. ARAD remains the center for most loudspeaker development by Sound United, which also owns the brands Bowers & Wilkins, Classé, Definitive Technology, Denon, and Marantz.


Products​

  • Passive Component Speakers for Home Theater and Hi-Fi Listening
  • Powered Subwoofers
  • Soundbar Systems with Wireless Subwoofers and Surround Speakers
  • Outdoor, All-Weather Speakers
  • Car and Boat Audio
  • In-wall and In-Ceiling Architectural Speakers

See also​


References​

  1. Polk, Matthew, Soundstage! Interview with Matthew Polk, retrieved 2008-01-12

External links​

 
Chili I have been using Polks since I was in high school. These were recapped last week and sound frickin awesome
 
Cadorman said:
Chili I have been using Polks since I was in high school. These were recapped last week and sound frickin awesome
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Awesome bro,

I had a Middle School friend who started off with Cerwin Vega's and turned me on to Pink Floyd when we were like 13.
When I went to get my first really nice stereo speakers, I went to a small audiophile shop that carried Polks, and some others, I seem to remember Boston Acoustics, Infiniti, Bose, JBL, Klipsch, and a few others, Heck I didn't get the Polks, but opted for another cool kind I forget here at 4 AM.

It will come to me HAHA.

Oh yeah, I wound up with an old pair of Cerwins at an auction for a few bucks. The speakers need refoaming, but I have done that before.
When my brain fog clears, I will remember my main speakers name.

Edit : Advent Legacy speakers are what I got and still have. If I am not mistaken, I may have acquired a set of Polks somewhere and the next time I go up to my house, I will see if I buried them somewhere I can put my hands on them.
 
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