Have a need for the best, and only the best? Need to upgrade your stereo speakers? Got $20,000? Of course you do, and Klipsch has the speakers for you.
Klipsch has come up with a whole bunch of reasons why you should buy the Palladium P-39F floorstanding speakers. For your money you get a horn-loaded tweeter assembly, a sophisticated inverted dome midrange and three high-output woofers. Hand matched drivers and networks are factory sorted to deliver consistency within 0.5dB. There is a bunch of other stuff too, but since you’re not gonna buy these anyways, I’ll just list it after the jump.
Not to be used with that crappy old YORX system you have.
• Acoustically inert, carbon-infused, thermoset composite 90 x 60-degree Tractrix Horns and
phase plugs
• 19mm (0.75-inch) titanium diaphragm super tweeter with twin N38H neodymium magnet motor
structure mated to 4:1 high-compression chambered phase plug
• 114mm (4.5-inch) inverted aluminum diaphragm midrange with triple N35H neodymium
magnet motor structure with dedicated sub-enclosure mated to 4:1 high-compression
chambered phase plug
• 3 x 228mm (9-inch) hybrid aluminum / Rohacell® / Kevlar® diaphragm woofers with triple
N35H neodymium magnet motor structures and dual Faraday aluminum shorting rings
• High-flow, low-restriction, die-cast aluminum midrange and woofer frames with integrated
heatsinks
• Optimized Tapered Array 3.5-way (4th order electro-acoustic) networks with high-linearity, low
insertion loss air-core inductors, Solen metalized polypropylene fast capacitors and ultra low
inductance power resistors mounted on double-sided, plated-thru PCB’s
• Tri-wire, gold-plated brass Klipsch binding posts with gold-plated bus bars
That’s great and all, but I have to wonder, can most of the listeners actually appreciate that much accuracy? I’ve found that after a certain point, it’s all about the marketing and fooling the buyer into getting something much more expensive that you can appreciate.
There was a study done where speaker wire brands were compared, with one of them being an unbent hanger. Guess which one? The coat hanger.
My point is that sure, this will have an amazing frequency response on paper. People will be jealous of your $20,000 speakers, but will you really get anything out of this? Spending 2-3k on speakers and getting an equalizer will probably help get rid of any major issues from the environment they’re placed in. The environment they’re placed in is a story of its own as well – even though these are amazing, place it in a bad room and it will throw things off a lot on paper.
My post is a lot of rambling but the basic point is that it’s nothing short of just wanting to create an image of being amazing even though it’s not really all that different than other speakers.
For those curious, I’ve spent a few thousand on my 2.1 setup, and have demoed higher end equipment, but never actually been impressed. I’ve wanted someone to show me how amazing their 5 figure setup is, but it just doesn’t change a lot after a certain point.
I’d agree. I’ve got $1500 home theater speakers that I love. I’ve never liked Klipsch speakers, so I’m biased. It’s hard to say people can hear a big difference when you look at the argument about speaker wire: a coat hanger vs top-quality interconnects –there was no difference in listening tests. It doesn’t surprise me. Human memory for sound is short lived at best for comparison. Yes, speakers all have their own timbre, but I don’t see it being that huge of a difference.