What we know about the measurement:
Polk Audio Monitor 40 Series II is a passive bookshelves speaker that cost around 200USD for a pair .
- Quality of the measurement data is high .
- Origin of the data is ASR .
- Format of the data is generated by a Klippel NFS .
- Sensitivity: 88.5dB (avg. 100Hz-1kHz for 2.83V measured at 1m)
- -3dB (resp. -6db) point v.s. reference is at 82.0Hz (resp. 67.4Hz).
- Reference level is normalised to 0.2dB computed over the frequency range [300.0Hz, 5000.0Hz].
- Frequency deviation is 2.7dB over the same frequency range.
- Directivity
- Horizontal directivity is (-50.0°, 50.0°) between 1kHz and 10kHz. Angle computed for +/-6dB.
- Vertical directivity is (-20.0°, 20.0°) between 1kHz and 10kHz. Angle computed for +/-6dB.
- Tonality (Preference) Score
- Tonality (Preference) Score is 2.4
and would be 5.1 with a
perfect subwoofer.
- Details: NBD: ON 0.56, LW 0.55, SP 0.47, PIR 0.49; SM: SP0.38, PIR0.11; LFQ 0.77, LFX 60Hz
- Tonality (Preference) Score is 5.6
with an EQ and would be 7.9 with a
perfect subwoofer and the same EQ.
- Details: NBD: ON 0.38, LW 0.35, SP 0.38, PIR 0.32; SM: SP0.93, PIR0.93; LFQ 0.77, LFX 51Hz
- Tonality (Preference) Score is 2.4
and would be 5.1 with a
perfect subwoofer.
- Link to Original review.
