As you see above they have a full line in Persona going from the 9H to their bookshelf. Most of this review is about the 9H with the H standing for hybrid. It has a powered bass unit with importantly has Anthem Room Correction (ARC) applied below 500 Hz. The others are all passive and the bookshelves that I heard had nothing to write home about. The star, and I mean that literally, was the 9H shown in the opposite corner of the room.
This review highlights something very important: that
you want to do business with a company that not only knows how to make speakers, but understands room acoustics. So many crimes were committed at the show because the designer did not understand room acoustics. The Paradigm folks (and later Martin Logan) did in this instance. Room correction and then a +2 db boost was applied to bass frequencies in the speaker. And correction was then applied in the Anthem receiver above that. The combination produced one of the best sounds at the show!
I won't bore you with the details of what goes on in the speakers. You can read about them here and see some in the above photos:
http://persona.paradigm.com/persona/
Suffice it to say,
Paradigm has a hit on their hands with the 9H. Whether they can break out of their mold of being a mid-tier speaker manufacturer, I don't know. And oh, that presenter needs a big raise for doing a fantastic job explaining the technology and doing the demo and calibration. It was the most perfect execution at the show.
