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dX Series
Polk Audio
dXSeries
®
Dynamic Balance Component Systems
Premium Performance Loudspeakers
Owner’s Manual
dX3055 System
dX3065 System
dX3000 Tweeter
dX5510 Mid/Woofer
dX6510 Mid/Woofer
5601 Metro Drive • Baltimore, Maryland 21215 • (800) 377-7655
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Polk Audio—A History of Excellence Polk Audio was founded in 1972 by Matthew Polk and George Klopfer. Their dream was to make speakers with the performance of the world’s best speakers, at a reasonable price. They did so by applying scientific principles to speaker design and by concentrating solely on the speaker business. That is how Polk became known as “The Speaker Specialists.” Today Polk Audio is still headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, and is now one of the world’s largest manufacturer
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® A Word From Matthew Polk The Story of Dynamic Balance Dear Music Lover, Your new Polk speakers employ Dynamic Balance, a technology which came out of a joint Thank you for purchasing Polk Audio speakers. research project between Polk Audio and Johns Hopkins University. This laser imaging Designing and building speakers is more than just a research enables us to view the entire vibrating surface of a driver or tweeter, allowing us to business for the people of Polk Audio – it is our passion. ob
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dX Series Component Systems Feature: Read this manual thoroughly first. If you have any doubts about your ability to execute any • Blue tri-laminate silk composite dome tweeters for more accurate response, superior of the installation steps, save yourself a lot of grief and contact a professional installer (your detail and high power handling: “Bright Without Bite.” Polk dealer is a good place to find one). • Dynamic Balance mineral filled polymer cone driver for clear, well-defined midrange If
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Installing the Components Installing the dX System Mid/Woofers in Factory Locations The dX System Crossovers Most cars have speaker grilles that blend with the rest of the car’s interior. Sometimes it is You will need to make wiring connections from your amp or radio to the crossovers and from difficult to determine how to remove these grilles to gain access to the speaker that you intend the crossovers to your mid/woofers and tweeters (Figure 1). Choose crossover box locations to replace. If y
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1. Cut a hole in the panel. The grilles supplied with the dX Series drivers can be used as a tem 5. With music playing, position the tweeters in different locations around the passenger plate for marking the cutout holes. compartment, listening for the differences caused from these placements. We recom- 2. Using the speaker grille as a template for marking the locations of the four screw holes. mend using vocals for this test. You will be able 3. Drill the holes with a 1/8" bit. to determine
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4. Insert front half of flush cup into the hole and Fine Tuning Your dX Component System manually push clamp ring (Figure 3) on until cup Now it’s time to fine tune your dX component system to get best sound quality possible. The is tight on front surface. dX systems are designed to allow you to adjust the sound to best suit your car’s acoustics 5. Put tweeter in bottom half of flush cup and twist and your personal taste. lock to front half of assembly created in step 4. Each of
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Crossover Frequency And Slope Tweeter Level The frequency point and slope of the low pass crossover may be adjusted. Remove the two The slide switch on top of the crossover box adjusts the level (volume) of the tweeter relative small Philips head screws from the bottom of the crossover box. Remove the top cover, to the mid/woofer. Start with the switch in the bottom position and listen. If you want a inside the box you’ll see a wire jumper “J2” (Figure 4). If your tweeter is right next to your
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Amplifier Power Requirements dX3055 comprised of dX5510 and dX3000 dX3065 comprised of dX6510 and dX3000 Your speakers will work well with a variety of electronic components. As little as 20 watts Specifications (RMS) per channel will deliver adequate listening levels in most cars. If you have a noisy car or intend to play your system at loud listening levels, more power is necessary to achieve db4510 dX5510 dX6510 dX3000 Recommended 5-100 watts 5-100 watts 5-100 watts the best performance. Cons
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® Dynamic Balance Series Mid/Woofer Technical Sheet dX Series 1 Year Warranty THEILE / SMALL PARAMETERS Polk Audio, Inc. warrants the original purchaser only This Warranty does not include service or parts to that this Polk Audio dX Product (the Product) will be repair damage caused by accident, disaster, misuse, dX5510 dX6510 free from defects in materials and workmanship for abuse, negligence, inadequate packing or shipping Freq. Response 60Hz-5.5kHz 45Hz-4.5kHz a period of (1) one y
