SIZE, QUALITY AND FULLNESS OF FULL RANGE

COVERS ARE HARD TO REMOVE AND FLIPPING THE POLK EMBLEM WITHOUT DAMAGING IS A TRICK

I USE THIS PRODUCT IN A ROOM WHERE MY POOL TABLE IS, IN THE BASEMENT. I DO NOT NEED A TON OF VOLUME I JUST NEED CRISP TONES FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF MUSIC AND ACROSS A WIDE SPECTRUM OF RANGES. THOUGH I DO NOT NEED A LOT OF VOLUME, BEING A PRODIGY OF THE 70'S EVERY NOW AND THEN I JUST HAVE TO CUT LOOSE. WOW THEY HANDLE THE WATTAGE AS WELL AS M5 JR'S THAT I HAVE HAD SINCE WE CHUCKED THE BIG JUNK FURNITURE SPEAKERS.
EXCELLENT CHOICE FOR THE COLLEGE STUDENT ON A BUDGET OR WELL ESTABLISHED MUSIC JUNKY THAT JUST NEEDS SOME SATTELITE SPEAKERS TO CRANK OUT THE TUNES.

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LONG TERM POLK USER

Cool wedge design and convincing ads

Cheap

I was fooled by the Polk Audio magazine ads with Matthew Polk in his little lab coat. I always heard that Polk Audio made great speakers. This may have been true about 15 years ago. Apparently Polk has sold-out to mass marketing and production like Nakamichi and McIntosh.

Both speakers drivers crapped out on me and I had to get them repaired. I mistakenly attempted to use them as a rear-recovery speaker. Do not this mistake. I would recommend these to a beginner or someone with very limited space.

I guess for Tweeter, Good Guys or Circuit City these would be a nice line to carry. However, go to a higher-end store and they'll laugh you out of there.

I will never purchased Polk Audio products again. I will put them in the same category as Bose speakers. Don't believe the hype and the nice ads.

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B&W DM17

great sound for the price

mounting brackets a little weak

I stopped in at a local store just to look around. I wanted to replace my little 4" surrounds with a two way speaker. I saw this pair on sale(only on sale because they are a 3 year floor model) and decided to ask the salesman to hook them up. I also saw a similar pair of Boston's for the same price which were brand new. The Polk's sounded so much more alive than the Boston's for being 3 years. I got them home and hooked them up to my home theater and pumped a little Dolby Digital into them and they performed great. I can't complain considering the price I payed and would recommend them to anyone for surrounds.

Sweet sound

none yet!

Went to the store to complete my home theater (the Kenwoods I had never were any good). Since all of my other speakers were Polk (monitor 5s, cs245, sub), I figured that one of the RTs would fit the bill. After listening to them I was disapointed. Polk sound has significantly changed over the years. My monitor 5s sound so much better than the current crop (crap!!) that polk is putting out these days. You have to spend some serious $$s to get close to the quality in my "old" speakers. Anyway I listened to the m3s expecting even less high frequency (due to the spec sheet). I was wrong these sounded so much better than the larger speakers and mated well with my current speakers. Maybe there's still hope for polk. I highly recommend these speakers for the surround or main use -- just don't expect much bass, you'll need a sub.

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RT 25, RT 15 and some cheap Kenwoods

I recently decided to put stereo in my very formal living room. I have a Phase Linear DRS-900 amp, P3800 preamp, and T5200 Tuner driving Clarke Precedent speakers. This is OK in the family room not for the living room.
I decided to go satellite/subwoofer and listened to several, including Bose AM5 since it is only for stereo and not video. After listening to systems with passive subs, I quickly discovered that they have no base.

I then auditioned the Polk M3 II. It sounded great and looked great. There was more base than the passive sub systems but I added a Polk PSW 120. The speakers are wall mounted and driven by an Akai 65 watt/channel receiver (my first) Playing a Teac 5 disc CD. I didn"t want to fry them with by Phase Linear.

The systrem sounds and looks excellent in a room that is 16 by 29 and it was $150.00 cheaper than Bose.

Purchased these at a superstore about a week ago. These speakers are quite nice. The good clean sound coupled with the built-in bracket made these speakers my first choice. These speakers can be mounted in almost any direction and it is very easy to mount.I have these for about 60%HT and they sound great as radiating rears.
Even if these speakers do nto sound as nice as some others---you can not beat the mounting capabilities expecially if you have a crazy mount in mind.
Looks good, sounds good, mounts good..........is good!

I Recently bought 4 of these speakers to add to the Polk PSW 120 Sub. It is a small room and I needed a small, wall-mountable speakers. The speakers have a great rich and full sound. I still have a pair of fairly new Bose 100's and I got to tell you, after an a/b comparison it's not even remotly close. The bose sound terrible next to the polks. I am not trying to bash Bose, I have a bose stereo in my car and it sounds great, but the 100 are being sent outside to my covered patio until the humidity kills them, then I will replace them with an all-weather speaker. I originally wanted the Polk M5's which are a little larger, but they have been discontinued and NOBODY had them, (especially in white). I don't feel that I made any compromises by going with the M3 II's, and remember, this speaker comes in and indoor and an all-weather version. The All weather has plastic Grills and costs $100.00 more for the pair, I have them both and there is no real sound difference. (Didn't mean to buy the all weather but Circuit City was out of the indoor ones and gave me the all weather for $199.95 a pair).

Good power in small size, extremely versitile mounting.

I am rinning a pir of M3 II's as my main speakers (hey, i'm in college, no $ yet), powered by a new sony 100 watt/5 channel amp. These are great speakers - tons of output, great clarity from a bookshelf/surround type speaker. I have a klipsch 8" sub and two cheap-ass radio shack speakers as surrounds, and the system kicks ass.

I listened to the polks against some similar bookshelf-type Infinity (those speakers were trying too hard for bass - come on, leave that to the sub) and Bose (hurt my ears), and the polks sounded much better from the midrange on up.

As soon as I get some $ to burn I'll get a pair of decent (RT55?) front speakers and a center channel, and the M3 II's will be 'retired' as surrounds. These are extremely durable, great sounding versitile speakers.

When I was looking for surround speaker to match my main RT400, center CS245 and PSW650 of corse wanted a pair of RT25 or M5.
Then I listened to all of them alonside the M3 II and I was convenced right away that these were the ones to get for Dolby Digital or DTS surrounds, They sound great, I couldn't be happier.

Great flexibilty, you don't have to buy speaker brackets good overall sound, good bass response for its size

The highs don't sound as natural as they should

Ported bookshelf speakers need to be placed usually on a stand to give optimal performance. For that matter, it really doesn't pay, because a floorstanding tower will take up as much room as the bookshelf and stand. However, these MP3II's can be placed anywhere without compromising the ability of its sound. The mid bass and upper lower bass is tight and punchy. It is not thick sounding, but its full enough to satisfy a quest of speaker placement where ther is none. And that is the beauty of this speaker. The tweeters should be replaced with something that is less artificial sounding. The highhats and cymbals sound like drum machine sounds rather than its natural timbre. If Polk was to make a change in this we would probably have a real classic, because the flexibility and unobtrusive mounting still hasn't been matched. And for certain rooms in the house, it is completely necessary. Otherwise the other alternative is to run in walls.

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