Classic Hifi Care

I had to visit a friend's house to look at a deed affecting a local nonprofit's operation... took the rail trail to his house, on the bike. As I rode down my alley, I passed two small stand-mounted speakers in the trash position. When I came home they were still there so I grabbed 'em. Two Polk 2300 speakers, little guys intended as satellites in a 5.1 system. They've in very heavy, solid cast (some sort of resin product, I think) enclosures. Haven't tried them yet beyond touching leads to a 1.5V cell. They both make a noise. It's now late at night so I may delay listening until the weekend.

There were two extra stands there so I just went back snagged those too.

Chris Campbell

It's always good to find something for free.

Bill

The best things in life are free, no?

Free is good....

Rescuing an orphan is good as well....

I'm sitting here listening to Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane, a 1957 Carnegie Hall performance taped for Willis Conover (hero) to play on his VOA jazz program. The little speakers are hooked up to a tiny Radio Shack integrated amp and the source is my iPod via the headphone jack. The speakers sound pretty good. I'm tickled that they work at all. For the price I paid, I would not have been surprised if the voice coils had been burned up. But no, seems like the neighbors just didn't want them. I will say they are not bass-heavy. They were intended for use with a subwoofer and the LF driver is tiny, 3", and the whole enclosure is 7"x 4"x 4-1/2". They have pretty well balanced sound nonetheless, even with a flea-powered amp. I've got a Marantz 2270 here but did not want to connect unknown speakers to a really nice amp.

Chris Campbell