About Your Loudspeaker
An International Project
The Klipsch Palladium series has drawn on engineering, design and manufacturing resources from all aver the world. In addition to our formidable team in the USA, we have used European industrial designers, British theoreti- cal physicists and manufacturing and production specialists from China.
The Palladium series is the culmination of over 60 years of research and engineering advancements, having been designed with the most advanced computer aided design (CAD) tools available, rigorously evaluated using our own in-house proprietary software, built to the most stringent quality standards and voiced by a panel of our most experienced listeners. No Klipsch loudspeaker has ever had more care and attention to every detail lavished on it than your Palladium series loudspeaker.
Although building one pair of loudspeakers is relatively straightforward, building hundreds of loudspeakers is challenging. Measurements play an important role in analyzing loudspeaker characteristics, but the human ear is the ultimate test gear for evaluating its reproduction quality . At Klipsch, every loudspeaker design is strictly evaluated using listening tests designed to expose even the very smallest weakness. All final voicing is performed under blind conditions, using trained listeners and standard audio sound tracks selected based on their particular area of auditory excellence. All information is tabulated and reported back to the designer for analysis. In almost all cases, Klipsch products are evaluated against similarly priced competitive models. It is only in this manner that Klipsch can truly rely on the quality of feedback received, eliminating skewed data that may result due to influ- ences caused by price, brand recognition, or visual appeal.
Design
The P-38F, P-37F, P-17B and P-27C are a 3.5-way bass-reflex full range loudspeakers with high sensitivity and extremely low distortion. The drivers consist of either 7-or 8-inch woofers, an advanced 4.5-inch horn-loaded compression midrange driver, and a .75-inch titanium horn loaded compression dome tweeter. Each driver was designed by the Klipsch Engineering team and optimized for superior performance within each transducers bandwidth. Accu- rate driver design minimizes the need for driver corrections in the crossover network. Thus, the crossover is a straightforward design, with extremely high-quality components ensuring minimal insertion loss. By presenting a simple load to the amplifier, overall system perfor- mance is enhanced, a phenomenon rarely found with conventional designs. Each compo- nent used in the crossover, from the air core inductors to the polypropylene capacitors, has been selected to provide an undistorted transition between transducers. The superior com- ponents used in the Palladium series is complemented by the unique horn and enclosure design and highlighted by the elemental performance of the industrial design. The massive laminated MDF enclosure is based on a curved non-parallel wall structure for minimal reso- nance. Both the tweeter and midrange compression drivers are integrated into a common molded two-element horn optimized for bandwidth, clarity, and efficiency.
