STEREO LOUDSPEAKERS
Polk’s position within the Sound United stable of products has given it a new home in Australia alongside the rest of Sound United’s brands: Boston Acoustics, Bowers & Wilkins, Classé, Definitive Technology, Denon and Marantz. The change in distribution coincides with a new range — the Polk Reserve series of speakers, which sits just below the company’s flagship Legend series. Indeed the new speakers use the same custom-made drivers developed for the Legends, including the proprietary Pinnacle tweeter and ‘turbine cone’ midrange.
The new Reserve range is extensive indeed, with three floorstanding models, three centres, two standmounts and a pair of ‘Atmos’ height modules which can sit atop other Reserve series speakers or be mounted to the wall to deliver the height effects of Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. Needless to say, then, the Polk Reserve series caters to home cinema use as well as to stereo listening. All models are available here in Australia in matte black or a brown (walnut); a satin white finish will follow.
We began our introduction to the new Polk range with the larger of the two standmounting designs — the Polk Reserve R200, which arrived in their purposeful matte black
