Niles Audio PERFORMANCE PR6 - Manual (Page 2)

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proper installation and operation, you’ll enjoy years of trouble-free use.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 2
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
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INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS 4
LOUDSPEAKER PLACEMENT 6
INSTALLATION FUNDAMENTALS 9
INSTALLATION OF BRACKETS, FRAMES AND GRILLES IN NEW CONSTRUCTION 13
INSTALLATION OF BRACKETS, FRAMES AND GRILLES IN EXISTING WALLS 15
INSTALLATION OF THE LOUDSPEAKER, SENSOR AND GRILLE IN NEW OR 16
EXISTING CONSTRUCTION
REMOVAL OF LOUDSPEAKER AND GRILLE 20
OPERATION 20
SPECIFICATIONS 21
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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 poly-
propylene 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 mate-
rial technology to produce a dome tweet-
er 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
without 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 assem-
blies to installed frames without additional
hardware or tools. Niles’ Snap-in design
makes it easy to upgrade Niles speakers
after installation without the hassles asso-
ciated with removal and re-installation of
traditional designs. Snap-in baffles make
installation of Niles speaker baffles easier
and faster than other in-wall brands.
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Features and Benefits
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.