Palladium® Owner’s Manual

READ these instructions. KEEP these instructions. HEED all warnings. FOLLOW all instructions. DO NOT use this apparatus near water. CLEAN ONLY with dry cloth. DO NOT block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. DO NOT install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce heat. ONLY USE attachments/accessories specified by the manufacturer. USE only with a cart, stand, tripod, bracket, or table specified by the manufacturer, or sold with the apparatus. When a cart is used, use...

Getting Started Connection Procedure: Please follow the unpacking instructions fully and in the order shown below. These loudspeakers are heavy! Do not lift or move these speakers by yourself. Always have someone help you. There is a specific procedure to be followed: Open the carton flaps Lightly tape each flap to the box with short pieces of tape Remove the top packing piece Carefully invert the carton Remove the Grille box Remove the Accessories box Remove the Owner’s manual and gloves Switch off and unplug the amplifier/s and all source electronics from the mains power. Place both loudspeakers...

Positioning Loudspeakers - Stereo Positioning Loudspeakers - Home Theater Never allow objects of furniture to impede the loudspeaker or place objects between the loudspeakers and the listening position. The generally accepted norm is that the loudspeakers should be as far away from each other as they are from the listener. This places the listener and the loudspeakers at the points of an equilateral triangle. Well-designed horn loudspeakers have “controlled directivity” - the dispersion pattern is tailored to provide the ideal image at the listener’s ear. This is in contrast to conventional speakers,...

Positioning Center and Surrounds Cables, Crossovers and Connections Center Channel Positioning For best results, connect your loudspeakers with purpose-designed loudspeaker cable. The cables to both loudspeakers should be of equal lengths and be of a gauge sufficient to drive the speakers comfortably without any loss of power in the bass at high volumes. The P-27C is a dedicated center channel speaker that should be placed as close as possible to the center of your video display. In installations with large projection or display screens, the speaker is traditionally placed immediately below the...

As supplied, positive and negative terminals of the high and low frequency terminal pairs are strapped together with a two-way strap. This is how you should prepare the terminal panel for each wiring option. Bi-wiring reduces unwanted interactions between the bass drivers and the midrange and treble units. True bi-wiring is connecting separate cables from the bass terminals and the midrange/treble terminals to a common connection at the amplifier. Several cable manufacturers produce specialized cables, where one cable jacket contains four cables, thus enabling bi-wiring within one cable cluster....

Final Adjustments Fitting Spikes (P-38F and P-37F only) The Palladium Series loudspeakers have a phenomenal frequency response and superb dynamics, so playing large orchestral or rock music will be an awesome experience, but may not necessarily be the best guide in setting up the speakers. Your listening tests should be performed with a wide range of music, including unaccompanied vocal and solo instrumental recordings with as little processing on the source as possible. A natural solo cello recording will reveal much about the bass characteristics of your room and positioning. The best position...

About Your Loudspeaker Bass Drivers The Klipsch Palladium Series has drawn on engineering, design and manufacturing resources from all over the world. In addition to our formidable team in the USA, we have used European industrial designers, British theoretical physicists and manufacturing and production specialists from China. The woofer utilizes a low mass hybrid Aluminum/Rohacell®/Kevlar® cone with an over hung voice coil. Even under massive dynamic demand, the driver retains linearity and low distortion. A three-part high intensity neodymium magnet is used with a main magnet, plus rear and...

Treble Compression Driver Low distortion, high sensitivity, wide bandwidth and neutral tonality have been, in this ground-breaking design, pushed beyond the standards for any previous Klipsch driver. Functionally, any loudspeaker enclosure provides a mechanical placement of each transducer, a method for suppressing acoustical radiations and a resonant chamber to extend low frequency performance. The Palladium Series is an artistic blend of beauty and functional performance. Its industrial design was guided by the global consultancy of BMW Group DesignworksUSA. Built around a .75-inch titanium...

Care and Maintenance Very little maintenance is required. To maintain the finish of the loudspeakers, wipe them carefully with a soft lint free polishing cloth. Occasionally, and to remove fingermarks etc., wipe the cabinets with a barely damp clean soft cloth and finish with a lint free polishing cloth. NEVER use any form of spray, furniture polish, saturated polishing cloth, or the like. Doing so will dull and streak the fine finish of the cabinets. Do NOT use a vacuum cleaner to clean the grilles while they are installed on the cabinet. To clean the grilles, remove them, brush them out by...

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