The original PowerPort was all about bass performance and to avoid port noise,” Polk personnel apprised us at a special presentation to EISA editors. “The port on a loudspeaker helps to get more lower frequencies and to increase sensitivity of the speaker – but maybe nobody told you that this comes at a price.” Reserve’s sleek cabinetry hides a world of audio innovation. Cabinets are carefully cross-braced to best eliminate unwanted interior resonances. Rounded exterior corners help disperse sound broadly around the room with minimal diffraction, creating an open sound stage.

The least ideal user profile for the Polk Audio Reserve Series R200 2-Way Bookshelf Speakers is someone looking for an audiophile-grade or high-end listening experience. The sound quality is decent overall, but I would like to see some improvements in the mid-range clarity and definition as well as the high-end brightness. Polk Audio Reserve R200 Review: Conclusion

Polk Audio Reserve R200 Review: Sound quality

These Turbine Cone drivers have also been adopted in the unaltered version from the Legend series. That is - it applies to the 5 ¼ and 6 ½-inch versions - the four-inch in the R350 and R900 is not available in the Legend series. POWER PORT + X-PORT If you get some wine associations by the name Reserve, you`re in good company. The name Reserve is inspired by the wine industry, and was created by Michael Greco, who holds the title of Senior Director of the Loudspeaker Category. He is a dedicated wine lover, and believed that Reserve was a proper name for this new series.

The Listening Window is a spatial average of the nine amplitude responses in the ±10º vertical and ±30º horizontal angular range. This encompasses those listeners who sit within a typical home theater audience, as well as those who disregard the normal rules when listening alone. Base surface area of a loudspeaker may become a determining factor when the space in your room or desk is limited.The top model L800 is a very special model, and is a continuation of Polk Audio's classic SDA concept, which in this latest incarnation involves two rows of treble and midrange elements angled apart mounted in a baffle where the upper part has a bend in the middle. The floor model R600, which is a 2-way construction for NOK 16,599, - for the couple. It has two 6 ½ ”Turbine Cone for midrange and bass. This is the floor model we chose for the test. The acoustic instruments in the arrangement of Missy Higgins’ Nightminds became almost recessed, such was the prominence and crispness of her vocal. On Sweet Arms of a Tune it was the acoustic guitar which was thrust forward, with Higgins’ vocals almost too insistent; the R200s don’t forgive an edgy production. But when she is more truthfully captured, as on Greed For Your Love, the realism was tangible.