All NEW Paradigm FOUNDER SERIES...Could they be Paradigm's best speakers yet ?

"I predict the AL-MAC and AL-MAG and Carbon Drivers in the Founders will sound better to the ears than the Beryllium Drivers in the Personas" !..

Pretty sure Paradigm is smart enough to not make their cheaper speakers sound better than the flagship but who knows.

I look at the Prestige as a replacement for the Studios. I would guess these would be on tier of the Signatures and then the Persona are more of the cost no object (to a point) design? Anyway I will seek these out to hear once they are in the wild.  

Doug Schneider's first impressions on the Founders 100F speakers  
 
https://www.soundstageglobal.com/index.php/blogging-on-audio/133-doug-schneider/947-arriving-unboxing-looking-my-first-impressions-of-the-paradigm-founder-series-100f-loudspeakers 

 

I’ll be hanging out at the paradigm dealer and a customer would come in and have their minds blown by the persona only to be gut punched by the price so paradigm needed a bridge, a believable step and the previous price gap between lines was too wide to help customers believe they could get comparable quality for less money. Maybe paradigm will satisfy the spinorama crowd and offer a bridge to their flagship product in the new speakers.

Some say the Persona Series gets you close to the sound quality of the top of the line Vivid Audio Giya Series and the Giya Series are best sounding speakers that Doug Schneider has ever heard !