damonrpayne Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 You can view a "story" of unpacking these guys here, preview screenshot of what you'll see below: {Edit: this link requires the Silverlight browser plugin. Its a small download and its totally worth it!!} {Edit 2: Fixed for Firefox! Firefox seems to have some issues with the paths to the images, I will post a fix this week.} http://www.klipschcorner.com/PalladiumZoom.aspx?model=p39f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill H. Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Damon, Thanks for the Fix ! Awesome toy ...........Silverlight ! Neat Pictures. Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted July 27, 2008 Author Share Posted July 27, 2008 Listening Impressions I typed "Listening Impressions" and then stared at the screen for a while. I didn't know what I was going to say besides "these things are freakin astounding". The first track I played was Beethoven's 9th, and I immediately decided my particular recording wasn't good enough so I threw in Steely Dan Aja and punched up "Home at Last". I was immediately taken away. I've listened to this song nearly every day since discovering it but the astounding sparkle from the symbols and the clarity of the mid range was suddenly magical. I quickly pulled out Aja and threw in a greatest hits so listen to "Do it again" and "Reelin' in the Years". I quickly pulled this out and put in Sting's "Fields of Gold". I quickly pulled this out and put in Lorena McKennit, then Voices of Light, then Bizet's "Carmen", then Type O Negative, then Metallica's Black albu, then the Led Zeppelin BBC sessions, then the Sweeney Todd soundtrack, then "Lesium", .... I think you get the picture. For a while I couldn't force myself to listen to a whole song as I scrambled to hear every track I've ever loved on these speakers. It's harder to find well-recorded bass tracks, but with "L'immortal" and some tracks off of the black album I quickly heard that the bass was just as articulate, just as dynamic as the midrange. About the time I realized I was listening to the system, not the music, on some of the poorly recorded albums (ahem, talking to you "Raising Sand") I had to return the dolly I'd rented to haul these monsters and eat when I came back. By then people had started arriving and I ran through some of the nicer tracks again (I'm going to Home-At-Last people do death) and proceeded to part-BS and part actually listen until about 10:30 when everyone had to leave. I finally had time to run the Audyssey setup for multichannel and check out some movie clips. As Kate Blanchett narrate's the begging of "The Fellowship of the Ring" and what's his face screamed at the Spaaaaaaaaaartan's I was pleased to see that the P-27c was keeping up much better than when my guests were over: it's a couple of feet closer and 2.5 db hotter and now blends well with the P-39F. I threw in Casino Royale to listen to Chris Cornell's opening track (that man has some vocal chops) and ended up sitting through the whole movie. The amount of machine gun punch and gentle wine glass clinking detail in the uncompressed 5.1 PCM soundtrack just wasn't what I remembered. My sound panels are in the wrong places and the speakers are not quite positioned where I think they'll ultimately have to go. I don't think I could lift one of these speakers myself (spikes make it hard to slide) if you put a gun to my head, so I'm going to have to requisition help to play with placement. Obviously I'm pleased. Looking back at some of the things I've written in the past years I realize I'm much better at objectively describing the qualities and features of electronics than of speakers. I've never been so excited to just find a few minutes to run down there and play a couple of songs. My wife says they're very pretty. Over the next week I'm going to continue to rediscover my music collection and stash a notebook down there to keep track of any "oh that was cool" moments. Check out the "Palladium listening party" thread if you're interested in hearing for yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted July 27, 2008 Author Share Posted July 27, 2008 Damon, myself, I was Not able to open the Posted link. However when i went directly to klipschcorner.com I was able to see your setup and very nice Chairs ! Congrats and good luck. Bill: you will see a blue "Get Silverlight" image on the page, click on that. I edited the original post to provide warning. Trust me, the image program I threw together is pretty slick if I do say so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest srobak Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 You think they sound astounding now - wait til they are broken in! <insert peanut gallery here> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted July 28, 2008 Author Share Posted July 28, 2008 If you used the zoom app, it would tell you this already.... All the drivers get some break in before they leave the factory. I've put at least 12 hours on these speakers by now, I'm not sure what counts as "break in time" ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 You think they sound astounding now - wait til they are broken in! <insert peanut gallery here> I remember Trey saying something about breakin which the palladiums get but he said something in the line of there is no difference in breakin or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtnfoley Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 The first track I played was Beethoven's 9th, and I immediately decided my particular recording wasn't good enough so I threw in Steely Dan Aja and punched up "Home at Last". I was immediately taken away. I've listened to this song nearly every day since discovering it but the astounding sparkle from the symbols and the clarity of the mid range was suddenly magical. I quickly pulled out Aja and threw in a greatest hits so listen to "Do it again" and "Reelin' in the Years". I quickly pulled this out and put in Sting's "Fields of Gold". I quickly pulled this out and put in Lorena McKennit, then Voices of Light, then Bizet's "Carmen", then Type O Negative, then Metallica's Black albu, then the Led Zeppelin BBC sessions, then the Sweeney Todd soundtrack, then "Lesium", .... I think you get the picture. For a while I couldn't force myself to listen to a whole song as I scrambled to hear every track I've ever loved on these speakers. It's harder to find well-recorded bass tracks, but with "L'immortal" and some tracks off of the black album I quickly heard that the bass was just as articulate, just as dynamic as the midrange. Your taste in music is just as psycho-eclectic as mine! I'll take some of the tracks listed as recommendations [] and see how they fare in my al-heritage theater/listening room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Amy Posted July 28, 2008 Moderators Share Posted July 28, 2008 Damon, Beautiful shots, nice work! I wasn't able to get silverlight to work in Firefox, but it was fine in IE. I hope you'll take some time to post a few shot in some threads for all to see? Thanks for the great feedback! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Looking forward to hearing more as you get used to them. Also.... very cool how you can drill into the pictures! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted July 28, 2008 Author Share Posted July 28, 2008 Fixed in Firefox! Firefox didn't like "width=100%", it wanted "width=1024"; [6] damn browsers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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