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Good job Polk. Own several Polk speakers and love them all.Mounting bracket is sturdy and well designed to hold speaker in any position.
My setup easily fills my 30'x20' camper lot with quality sound, however, this setup will not provide ear splitting sound levels.I was very impressed with the weight of each speaker; I was also impressed with the build quality of the enclosure and the gold plated 5-way connectors.Overall - The Polk Atrium 45s are an outstanding value. Since the Atriums are 8 ohm speakers, I get less than 20 watts/channel. If I were buying an amp, I'd buy one with more power, but I had the Aiwa lying around. I purchased these speakers to mount outdoors, under my permanently camped 31' travel trailer. I would highly recommend them. Don't get me wrong, you won't mistake these speakers for a 15" subwoofer, but they sound very full and solid for small speakers with 4.5" woofers that I paid only ~$120 a pair for. I am very pleased with the sound quality and am surprised at how good the bass response is. I am driving them with an Aiwa CDC-X504MP car stereo that puts out ~20 watts/channel into 4 ohms.
I've only had them for a little over a month so i have no idea how long they will hold up or if they will make it through the winter. These speakers sound great for the price.
For some perspective, let me say that I ran my white Polk 45s on the B channel of an NAD receiver, with a pair of nice (but by no means extravagant) Wharfedale Diamond 9.1s on the A channel. Now, for a bit more perspective, one does need to consider how these speakers are to be used. Given that an outdoor environment comes with its own background symphony of noise, my quibbles with the quality of the sound may be taken with a grain of salt. Folks, let's not get overheated here. I am sure we will be happy using these guys outdoors on our patio. I was impressed by the bass for speakers of this size, but ultimately found the sound to be comparable to a decent set of computer desktop speakers with attached subwoofer. But given the limitation in sound quality, that's precisely where they will stay.
Absolutely no comparison. The brackets and grills are stout. They are visually attractive and just the right size to produce decent sound while remaining relatively inconspicuous. The full audio range was better represented on the Diamonds. They seem incredibly solidly built with good engineering all around.
The reviews salivating over this product are a bit long on hyperbole and bit short on perspective. If you intend to use these outdoors, they may be perfect for you. The mids are muddled, the highs a bit too tinny. No comparison. Put bluntly, running these guys against a set of true speakers made the Polk's deficiencies far more apparent.
I would recommend these to anyone looking to enhance their backyard with some tunes. These are great speakers for the money.
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