Polk Signature Elite ES60

LOUDSPEAKERS FLOORSTANDING SPEAKERS OF THE YEAR UNDER $5000 Moving up in scale to floorstanders now, we can immediately boggle at the value on offer from speakers that are here loaded with a 25mm terylene tweeter and a line of three 6.5-inch mica-fortified polypropylene woofers, with a tower-style cabinet 113cm high, and coming in at $2799 the pair — so undercutting either of our winning standmount designs. How can this be? You might point to pricier drive units in the standmounts, but you might also highlight Polk’s market power. Even before Sound United bought Boston Acoustics and B&W, its two speaker brands Definitive Technology and Polk Audio made it the largest supplier of hi-fi loudspeakers in North America. The resources behind the brand are substantial, and its scaling effective at creating…

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