Polk Audio Reserve R600

The Polk Audio Reserve R600 features a solid, minimalist design, and that build quality — inside and out — is part of what makes it sound great. Two 6-1/2" Turbine Cone™ midrange/woofers are ensconced in a carefully braced cabinet. A down-firing Power Port 2.0 offers reduced noise and increased bass response. And the 1" Pinnacle ring radiator tweeter delivers clear, crisp highs, with an integrated waveguide to improve dispersion and help create room-filling sound. A pair of R600s are an excellent choice for a stereo music-listening system, or they can shine as the front left and right channels in a voice-matched Reserve Series surround sound system. Here at Crutchfield, we like to get hands-on and ears-on with as much gear as we possibly can. To that end, we set up a demo system in our training room that featured a pair of Polk Audio Reserve R600 speakers, powered by a Primare I35 Prisma integrated amplifier. Our primary music source was a Marantz SACD 30n SACD/CD player with network features. We made the ...