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Congratulations! Thank you for choosing a Performance In-Wall Loudspeaker from Niles. With proper installation and operation, you'll enjoy years of trouble-free use. Niles manufactures the industry's most complete line of custom installation com- ponents and accessories for audio/video systems. For a free full line catalog write: Niles, Catalog Request, P.O. Box 160818, Miami, Florida 33116-0818 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 FEATURES AND BENEFITS 2 INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS 4 SPEAKER PLACEM
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Limited Warranty Limited Warranty Niles Audio Corporation ("NILES") warrants its loudspeaker products to the original purchaser to be free of manufacturing defects in material and workmanship for a period of five years from date of purchase. This Warranty is subject to the following additional conditions and limitations. The Warranty is void and inapplicable if NILES deems that the product has been used or handled other than in accordance with the instructions provided by the manufacturer, inc
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WARRANTY REGISTRATION CARD Model Purchased______________________________ _____ ________________ _________________________________ Serial Number_____________ ____________________ ___________________________________________________ Date Purchased (month/day/year)_______ _____________________ ______________________________________ Dealer Name and Location________________ _____ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________ _________ _________________
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Features and Benefits dens or living rooms; as main or surround Introduction speakers in home theaters. The PR or Performance group of A PR5/PR6 Speaker Kit; and the cor- in-wall loudspeakers offers speakers responding Bracket Kit (5 or 6) is expressly designed for an optimum bal- required to install one pair of PR5/PR6 ance of performance and value. They in-wall loudspeakers in either new or employ high performance components existing construction. and materials that make them perfectly suite
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Features and Benefits No-Strip Speaker Terminal tions simple and fast. A supplied template Niles patented No-Strip terminal enables assures fast and accurate hole cutting. The speakers to be connected without strip- bracket slips behind the drywall and the ping the speaker wire. No-Strip terminals screws secure the frame to the bracket, eliminate fumbling with wire strippers and sandwiching the drywall between them. input terminals. They are color coded and The speaker baffle attaches to the fr
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PLEASE FILL OUT THE WARRANTY REGISTRATION CARD ON THE REVERSE SIDE, DETACH, AND MAIL TO: Niles Audio Corporation Warranty Registration Dept. P.O. Box 160818 Miami, Florida 33116-0818 DETACH HERE
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Installation Considerations Figure 1 Model HD8 Shown New Construction Wings Bracket Frame Speaker Baffle IR Knockout Grille Installation Considerations Recommended Amplifier Power Incorporating a Local Volume Control For satisfactory performance, we recom- In a multiroom system there is one indis- mend an amplifier with a power rating of pensible device for true convenience—a ten to one hundred watts for the PR5; and local volume control. It allows you to ten to one hundred twenty-five watts fo
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Installation Considerations er, so you must connect the wire from the An IR sensor requires that a 2-conductor amplifier to the volume control and then shielded wire (West Penn D291 or equiva- from the volume control to the speaker. lent) be home run from each sensor loca- tion to the main equipment location. This Speaker Wire wire is normally run beside the speaker Use 2-conductor speaker wire when con- wire at the same time. Typically, the sen- necting PR speakers to your receiver or sor is pl
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Specifications Specifications Model PR6 Driver Compliment 6-1/2” Talc-Filled Polypropylene Woofer with Custom Debris Screen and Butyl Rubber Surround 3/4” Kaladex® Tweeter Housed in a Low Diffraction Precision Adjustment Mechanism Design Principle Infinite baffle for large and varying air volumes Recommended Amplifier Power Ten to One Hundred Twenty Five Watts per Channel Nominal Impedance 8 Ohms Frequency Response 60 Hz to 20,000 Hz, plus or minus 3dB (on axis) Dispersion Pattern 90 degrees
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Specifications Specifications Model PR5 Driver Compliment 5-1/4” Talc-Filled Polypropylene Woofer with Custom Debris Screen and Butyl Rubber Surround 3/4” Kaladex® Tweeter Housed in a Low Diffraction Precision Adjustment Mechanism Design Principle Infinite baffle for large and varying air volumes Recommended Amplifier Power Ten to One Hundred Watts per Channel Nominal Impedance 8 Ohms Frequency Response 70 Hz to 20,000 Hz, plus or minus 3dB (on axis) Dispersion Pattern 90 degrees Horizontall
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Speaker Placement the front of the speaker. To determine the Speaker Placement best position, measure the “listening” dis- tance between the ideal listening position Placement for Critical Listening (your favorite chair or couch) and the wall If you like to imagine that the band or in which you plan to install the speakers. orchestra is playing in front of you as you Try to place the speakers so that they are listen to music, or you are very conscious of equally distant from your listening spot
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Speaker Placement The Boundary Effect You can make listener position still less Corners can affect the bass response of critical by using mono rather than stereo. the speaker powerfully! This is called the This can be difficult to achieve with nor- boundary effect. You will emphasize par- mal stereo amplifiers. However, Niles ticular bass frequencies and cancel out manufactures Systems Integration other bass frequencies when you place Amplifiers which enable one room to be speakers close to the
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Operation R O S N K E N S Removal of Speaker Operation and Grille Listening at Higher Volumes It requires more power to achieve a reason- Removing The Speaker able volume of sound in a large room than If the grille is already installed, remove it by it does in a small room. It is possible (even if using a bent paper clip or the tip of a you are not a teenager) to turn the volume corkscrew and pulling it away from the frame. so high that the amplifier runs out of power. This creates “clipping” d
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Installation of the Speaker and Grille in New or Existing Construction Adjusting the Tweeter The tweeter is housed in a precision adjust- ment mechanism which enables precise aiming of the directional high frequencies to provide optimum performance. To adjust the tweeter: 1. Carefully grasp the tweeter housing by placing your thumb and forefinger in the indentations provided. 2. Rotate the tweeter housing either clock- wise or counter clockwise as required. The mechanism is indexed at equal inte
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Speaker Placement soundtrack to envelope you in the envi- the rear speakers, stay within five to eight ronment on screen. They will place back- feet of the listening location. If you are ground music, rain sounds, traffic noise, using a 25 to 50 watt amplifier you can etc. on the “surround” soundtrack. In a mount the speakers 10 to 15 feet away home with a single pair of speakers it is from the listening location and still easy for the jungle sounds to sound like achieve reasonably high volume l
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Installation Fundamentals Side-by-side wiring is unavoidable in par- Installation ticular spots in every house, just move the speaker wire route away as soon as possi- Fundamentals ble. If construction forces a side by side run for more than ten feet, install metal Running the Speaker Wire in New conduit or shielded speaker wire. Low- Construction voltage wires such as doorbells, inter- If you have doubts about whether you are coms, telephone, security, or television capable of installing a Nile
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Installation of the Speaker and Grille for New or Existing Construction 1. Stand half way between the two speakers. 2. Play some music with the amplifier or radio set to Mono. 3. Listen to the richness of the bass and the loudness of the sound. 4. Turn off the amplifier and reverse the con- nections on one amplifier channel only. 5. Repeat the listening test with the same setting of the volume control. When the sound has a richer bass and is slightly louder the speakers are working together or “
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R Installation of the Speaker and Grille for New or Existing Construction O S N K E N S O C D Installing the Speaker 5. Place the speaker baffle If the grille is already in the frame by inserting installed, remove it by the tabs at the base of the using a bent paper clip or speaker baffle into the the tip of a corkscrew and corresponding holes in pulling it away from the the frame and pushing frame (See Figure 13). the speaker forward until Figure 13 the snaps engage (See 1. Separate the speaker
