Klipsch Palladium P-39F Loudspeaker Review
It ain’t the stuff you don’t know that trips you up, it’s the stuff you know that ain’t so. When, at the 2007 CEDIA Expo, I encountered Klipsch’s startlingly new Palladium P-39F loudspeaker ($20,000/pair), I was impressed by its looks. Tall (56″), as beautifully contoured as the prow of a canoe, and clad in striking zebra-stripe plywood, the P-39F is possibly the best-looking speaker Klipsch has ever made. The Klipsch rep, too, was enthusiastic: “This is a loudspeaker that PWK would have approved of!” (Yes, seven years after the death of Paul W. Klipsch, employees still refer to the founder...