Niles Audio PR5, PR6 manual Introduction, Features and Benefits, Antiresonant Wave Bracing

Introduction

The PR or Performance group of in-wall loudspeakers offers speakers expressly designed for an optimum bal- ance of performance and value. They employ high performance components and materials that make them perfectly suited as primary speakers in bedrooms,

dens or living rooms; as main or surround speakers in home theaters.

A PR5/PR6 Speaker Kit; and the cor- responding Bracket Kit (5 or 6) is required to install one pair of PR5/PR6 in-wall loudspeakers in either new or existing construction.

Features and Benefits

Features and Benefits

Talc-Filled Polypropylene Woofer with Butyl Rubber Surround and Custom Debris Screens

The Niles PR Performance series loud- speakers employ a high performance woofer made of vacuum formed polypropylene with talc added for stiffen- ing. The resulting cone offers low mass, good damping and superb musicality. Additionally, the woofer employs a Butyl Rubber Surround for improved midrange clarity as well as moisture resistance. Custom debris screens prevent insulation from coming in contact with the woofer.

3/4" Kaladex® Tweeter housed in a Precision Adjustment Mechanism

The PR Performance series Kaladex® Tweeter employs DuPont’s latest material technology to produce a dome tweeter with exceptional frequency response and low distortion. Highs are crystal clear and extended without the harshness often associated with polycarbonate designs.

The Kaladex® tweeter is housed in a preci- sion adjustment mechanism which permits the tweeter to be accurately positioned after installation for optimum performance with- out the diffraction distortion endemic to other speaker brands utilizing traditional pivoting tweeters.

Antiresonant Wave Bracing

The PR speaker’s baffle design employs specially molded ribs that increase the rigidity of the baffle and raise the resonant frequency so that less “out-of-phase” can- cellation takes place. Equally important, the ribs are curved and crossed to further shift vibration modes away from low-bass canceling frequencies. This keeps bass tones rich and dynamic.

Front-Mounted Bass & Treble Controls

Niles Performance speaker models feature baffle-mounted tone controls for Bass and Treble that enable instant fine tuning after the speakers are installed. This feature helps to lessen the effects of less than perfect placement or other room acoustics anomalies.

Snap-in Baffle Assembly

This proprietary Niles design enables installers to attach Niles loudspeaker assemblies to installed frames without addi- tional hardware or tools. Niles' Snap-in design makes it easy to upgrade Niles' speakers after installation without the has- sles associated with removal and re-instal- lation of traditional designs. Snap-in baffles make installation of Niles speaker baffles easier and faster than other in-wall brands.

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