Paradigm Persona series


I'm beginning to poke around and gather opinions and information about a "super speaker" to replace my aging Thiel 2.4s.  I like the idea of bass dsp room correction and I am a bit of a point source type imaging nut (thus the Thiels).  So among other choices I've been looking at the Paradigm Persona series specifically the powered 9H with room correction for the bass.  However I'm skeptical of the "lenses" i.e. pierced metal covers on the midrange and tweeter specifically because of Paradigm's claim that such screens "screen out" "out of phase" musical information.  The technology in the design seems superlative but I just can't get past the claim re out of phase information and the midrange and tweeter covers.  What could possibly be the science behind this claim?  It just seems like its putting a halloween moustache on the mona lisa given the fact that the company is generally a technology driven company.
pwhinson
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Troy:
Of course I said something nice about the Paradigms. They are good speakers--but not as good IMHO as you maintain. The only reason I bother to respond to your posts is not to criticize the gear you carry (I very much like T&A) but to criticize your constant selling and self promotion. Write like a regular human and you will probably never hear from me again.
@audiotroy
As per Sciencecop saying we never heard really expensive Magico’s at Goodwins


You are putting words in my mouth, have a bit of decency, will you.
Own your BS, although I know it is hard for you to keep up with all of them.
Also our main demo room is 26 by 20 with 10 foot ceiling, don’t think your dealer has a single room of that size.

They do. Don’t make assumptions and take underhanded jabs at other dealers. Everyone that works there is also a much less annoying human being.

Our demo room with the 9H uses echo buster panels on the walls behind the speakers, shakti hollographs, acoustic system resonators, stein harmonizers, a critical mass rack and center stage footers, Furutech NCF boosters, Audio magic power conditioning, Enklekin cabling and T+A electronics with a Light Harmonic Davinci Dac being fed by a $15k Baetis server.

Our approach is to use room tuning products, cabling, power conditioners and source components to bring out the qualities we want and amelerorate the qualties we don’t. There is an art to tunning.

Another garbage post. So now to achieve true reference levels with the Persona series one must use a series of complex resonators, footers, room harmonizers and other nonsense.

Some of us prefer to buy speakers that sound good-to-great in regular rooms with decent electronics and setup, with the potential to sound great-to-amazing in a proper room with better electronics and setup. Every one of your posts about the Persona series is always qualified with the "tweaks" required to make them sound even decent, much less amazing. That is not inconsistent with what those of us that don’t like them are saying: that the speaker is inherently flawed and there are better options available. One should not have to go through such great lengths with a pair of speakers that costs $10,000+. But because you have skin in the game, you’re willing to take these ridiculous lengths to defend them on the internet. We get it.

I’m tired of the arrogance in your posts. No matter the topic or thread you post in, there is always the sense that you think (1) you know more than everyone else and/or (2) that others do not hear the things that they hear. If your goal by posting on these forums is to generate sales, in my opinion you have failed miserably. You’ll never see a cent of my money, even I loved Paradigm speakers.
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