noble@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Patrick Brewer) (12/13/90)
I am considering building my own speakers and would like to know something about the Polydax company. I have a parts catalog from a mail order company called Parts Express. It lists speaker components from a company called Polydax. It also says Polydax is a subsidiary of a French company called Audax. I would appreciate any feed back on the quality level of their products. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick W. Brewer President of CATT Program at NCSU noble@catt.ncsu.edu
bobb%gold.gvg.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Bob Bateman) (12/14/90)
In article <8304@uwm.edu> noble@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Patrick Brewer) writes: > > I am considering building my own speakers and would like to know >something about the Polydax company. I have a parts catalog from a mail order >company called Parts Express. It lists speaker components from a company >called Polydax. It also says Polydax is a subsidiary of a French company >called Audax. I don't claim any golden-ear credentials, so I have no idea how your home-builts will compare with the best offerings of your local audio boutique, but I have been listening to a pair of Polydax 1" dome tweeters in my home-builts for about ten years now. Actually, the current pair is fairly recent, since one of the originals had a voice coil integrity problem :-( of unknown cause a few months ago, and had to be replaced. Whether due to age or design change, the new set seemed to have a bit more high-end response. In any case, ten years is probably a fair lifetime for speakers, considering the long term stability of the materials. I won't get into subjective issues of how these particular drivers sound, except to say that they have the smoother type of sound you would expect from the treated cloth dome construction. The replacement pair was ordered from Parts Express, who I can also recommend from my few experiences ordering from them. The prices are very good. I can't name any names, but Polydax is a widely used supplier of speaker components for other manufacturers. Maybe the net can come up with a few representative models for you to check out. I know crossovers and packaging have a major effect on the overall sound of a combination of drivers, but particularly with midranges and tweeters, hearing the driver as it sounds in another implementation may give you some basic impressions. -- * Bob Bateman Grass Valley Group * bobb@gold.gvg.tek.com P.O. Box 1114 * 916-478-3562 Grass Valley CA 95945
shimizu@unix.sri.com (Dan Shimizu) (12/19/90)
>From what I've heard from Just Speakers (a driver mail - order place)
here in SF, Polydax are good quality drivers, but definetly not high
end. I've seen speakers constructed from Polydax drivers selling
for $180/pair (for a titainium tweet and 6" woof). If you're looking
for better drivers, try dynaudio, focal, mb, scan-speak, eton, etc...
Gluck,
DAN