JSL you can’t be more wrong, "the fact that they have focused their marketing and product development efforts on mass market and mid-fi and ht products."
Paradigm has for years been getting rave reviews on both the Signature series and the Studio series.
We had the Signature S6 as well as the Studio 100, and both were good speakers. the Signatures actually sounded extremely good in their price range especially when driven by real high end electronics.
I would have to agree with you that they were good but were not amazing, they were competitive with the KEF and B&W and other similar products.
Paradigm realized that this series was getting long in the tooth and replaced both the Signature series and the Studios. The Studios were replaced by the Prestige series and the Signatures were replaced by the Persona series.
The Persona series are a dramatic step up from the Signatures, and in fact are the first time Paradigm has moved into the uber speaker class in a direct bid to challange the big players, the WIlsons, Magicos, YG etc
The Persona are full of remarkable technology: The line starts at a $7,000.00 set of bookshelf speakers, a $10,000.00 set of small floorstanders, a $17,000.00 set of larger floorstanders, and a $25,000.00 set of large floorstanders, going up to a $35,000.00 set of flagship floor standing loudspeakers with active bass drivers and on board room correction.
http://persona.paradigm.com/persona/
Paradigm spent $4 million dollars to develop this line, and it shows, from a state of the art custom painting facility, state of the art pure Beryilum drivers for both the tweeter and the midrange, unique long throw bass drivers, a phase aligning lens system.
(This is the only pure 7 inch Beryilum driver currently on the market. )
The top of the line floorstander the 9H uses four, long throw woofers, two which face out, and two which are internal which vent out through a real grill.
The bass drivers are powered by 2 sets of amplifiers, each being 700 watt digital amplifiers, the real kicker is that the speakers utilize the Anthem Room Correction system to flaten bass humps and eliminate valleys with the idea being to create a totally flat in room bass response.
The 9H have alot of really wonderful advantages:
1: They are reasonably sized
2: They play loud
3: They are 96db efficient
4: They have bass down to 19HZ
5: They have self amplified bass with room correction
6: They have pure Beryilum drivers for the midrange and tweeter
This is a fantastic line of speakers and the press is acknowledging it:
http://www.tonepublications.com/
as well as receiving a similar accolade in the Absolute Sound.
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/2017-golden-ear-awards-anthony-h-cordesman/
When driven by great electronics these are some of the most transparent and holographic sounding speakers you will ever hear.
We have the 9H, the 3F and the B or bookself models on display in Audio Doctor showroom in NJ.
Dave owner
Audio Doctor NJ
Paradigm has for years been getting rave reviews on both the Signature series and the Studio series.
We had the Signature S6 as well as the Studio 100, and both were good speakers. the Signatures actually sounded extremely good in their price range especially when driven by real high end electronics.
I would have to agree with you that they were good but were not amazing, they were competitive with the KEF and B&W and other similar products.
Paradigm realized that this series was getting long in the tooth and replaced both the Signature series and the Studios. The Studios were replaced by the Prestige series and the Signatures were replaced by the Persona series.
The Persona series are a dramatic step up from the Signatures, and in fact are the first time Paradigm has moved into the uber speaker class in a direct bid to challange the big players, the WIlsons, Magicos, YG etc
The Persona are full of remarkable technology: The line starts at a $7,000.00 set of bookshelf speakers, a $10,000.00 set of small floorstanders, a $17,000.00 set of larger floorstanders, and a $25,000.00 set of large floorstanders, going up to a $35,000.00 set of flagship floor standing loudspeakers with active bass drivers and on board room correction.
http://persona.paradigm.com/persona/
Paradigm spent $4 million dollars to develop this line, and it shows, from a state of the art custom painting facility, state of the art pure Beryilum drivers for both the tweeter and the midrange, unique long throw bass drivers, a phase aligning lens system.
(This is the only pure 7 inch Beryilum driver currently on the market. )
The top of the line floorstander the 9H uses four, long throw woofers, two which face out, and two which are internal which vent out through a real grill.
The bass drivers are powered by 2 sets of amplifiers, each being 700 watt digital amplifiers, the real kicker is that the speakers utilize the Anthem Room Correction system to flaten bass humps and eliminate valleys with the idea being to create a totally flat in room bass response.
The 9H have alot of really wonderful advantages:
1: They are reasonably sized
2: They play loud
3: They are 96db efficient
4: They have bass down to 19HZ
5: They have self amplified bass with room correction
6: They have pure Beryilum drivers for the midrange and tweeter
This is a fantastic line of speakers and the press is acknowledging it:
http://www.tonepublications.com/
as well as receiving a similar accolade in the Absolute Sound.
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/2017-golden-ear-awards-anthony-h-cordesman/
When driven by great electronics these are some of the most transparent and holographic sounding speakers you will ever hear.
We have the 9H, the 3F and the B or bookself models on display in Audio Doctor showroom in NJ.
Dave owner
Audio Doctor NJ