Paradigm Persona series

The digital artifact is gone. I also retubed the Aesthetix Janus tube preamp with NOS RCAs from Vintage Tube Services (high recommended) which helped alot. I still believe that the Personas were simply passing along whatever was in the signal...they are that revealing and neutral. I could never make those work in my room....because I’m easily able to pull the Maggies 5 feet into the room and still put my listening position at 12 feet I’m getting a really good smooth response from the Maggies. They measure in room slightly lumpy without dsp but I would only add some very light dsp bringing down the peaks, not punching anything up but to be honest with you they sound so good without EQ that I’m likely not to do any DSP on them. I think their dispersion pattern being more a line source (figure 8 dispersion pattern) keeps the room effects down. I have alot of depth in the room but only about 2’ on either side of the Maggies. I really do think part of problem with the Personas was their wide dispersion characteristics but problem may go deeper than that. I really respected the engineering and the build quality of the Personas. With the Maggies there is a sense of tremendous coherency across the range...the drivers blend absolutely beautifully.

It seems to me that differences in speakers swamp differences in amps, and introducing the even order harmonics from high end tube amps is a difficult and indirect way to try to EQ a speaker into sounding more natural.    I'm listening to an entirely solid state signal path now (Mahler 2nd Symphony) and it does not seem harsh in the least.

pwhinson

Excellent! Good to read that you can sit back and enjoy the music w/o any digital glare.  Happy Listening!

pwhinson...There was definitely some incompatibility with the your room/equipment and the Personas 9H.
My room has a huge problem at 40 Hz and the DSP Arc in Persona solves that nod perfectly.
The upper octave is very even without any digital artifact (in my ears) but I know my Triode 845 and Ayon DAC helps a lot!

Good listening with the Maggies!

Nabcs we just put out an Innous Statement the difference in musicality is huge with the Persona 9H yes this is an expensive servers just shy of $14k however once you hear one you will not believe that digital can sound this much like analog.

And yes your Triode 845 and Ayon Dac do help, from our experience the Personas need a warm sounding matching of gear to bring some additonal warmth to the sound. 

The Personas do not hold anything back so if you are looking for transparency and holographic imaging, tight deep bass a touch dry, the speakers are magical. 

We have spent two years tweaking our 9H demo after trying out many different electronics packages, cables, power conditioners and digital front ends till we created some real magic with the 9h.

As we said the addition of the Statement has taken the sound of the Personas into a completely different level of sound quality. 

It is hard to believe that a computer server can alter the sound this much the Statement is a quantum leap over anything we have tested.

The soundstage is bigger, there is a sense of flow that is super impressive, and notes have much greater sense of sustain, the bass is better, sometimes it is spooky how realistic singers can sound.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Persona and Innous dealers