Paradigm persona vs. Monitor audio Platinum

Urbie you sound remarkably like Bo1972, please explain the properties of sound that you are mentioning.

As per the Monitors or even the Personas being in the top three loudspeakers in the world that is a good laugh. We would consider that both of these loudspeaker would be in the secondary class of great loudspeakers for the money, along with Kef, B&W, Dynaudio, 


Top three loudspeakers: by our ratings, Kharma Veryron series, Tidal/Vimberg, Wilson Alexx, XLF,  along with Rockport Arakis and a few others. 

We couldn’t  disagree more, with your pronouncements about the Monitors,

We had an original pair of the PL 300 MK 1 traded in and their top end was very hot, the redesigned second generation, MK II were too dull.

We heard a few pairs at Axpona, and at CAP and the speakers were good but hardly awe inducing.

Now to be fair the Paradigm Personas can also sound a bit forward, however when setup correctly they are more holographic and even more transparent with greater dynamics.

The Persona 3F are remarkable sounding when driven by good electronics we know of no other $10k speaker that can touch them for the price.

Perhaps you ought to listen to a pair well set up, you might be a bit surprised. 

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Persona dealers

Really Urbie, the Wilson Alexx is bettered by the PL 500? Sure.

How about the Kharma Veryon? 

How about the Focal Utopia series? 

How about the Tidals? 

Sure they are.

It is interesting that no one here other than Bo1972  feels like you do certainly feels like you are the same person.

We are not saying that the PL 500 aren't good speakers they are decent speakers but in the pantheon of world's greatest speakers they are not.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

Are you kidding me the Focal Utopias? that's a joke in fact the distributor of monitor audio in North America met dealer of focal here in Canada and he put every speaker series that they have bronze silver gold and platinum up against the equally costing Focals and the Focal dealer said that every monitor audio and every price category was better than the Focal and is now becoming a monitor audio dealer so if you're talking about  Focalyou don't know what you're talkin about,and as for the 500 going up against the Wilson Alexx I talked to somebody on here that put his 500 up against the Alexx and the magico and he said the five hundreds were better and just so you know what kind of system I have. Simaudio p8 W8 esoteric p10 transport wyred4sound 10th anniversary dac which is one of the most analog sounding dacs on the market right now. My wiring is all Harmonic Technology OCC single crystal wire and my new speaker is the Platinum 200 generation 2 which is way better than the three 5 or 7 from paradigm I don't care how you set those speakers up they will never be as three-dimensional and as deep and wide soundstage as the monitors and just read the post from the guy that had both and he said the monitors were way better in all those areas so like I said if you like bright edgy sound that's your choice I choose a speaker that sounds like it does naturally the human voice cymbols piano and I should know cuz I played French horn in the Vancouver symphony orchestra so I guarantee my ear is more tuned to what instruments sound like naturally than yours.