Which one from paradigm and monitor audio? I mean, you base a judgment on being "pretty sure" you heard them 20+ years ago, and you are "pretty sure" measurments would confirm? please.... I do own a monitor audio silver subwoofer in my setup and it does it's job. It's a good sub, not a great sub but I cross over very low, just looking for that 6o Hz down oumph, The two models I refer, I am sure, not "pretty sure" I have heard them, and I am sure the wind did not exist in the early 2000, the forest may have. And I am definitely sure they are way more hi fidelity than what Paradigm have always been doing, very generic low cost with the cheapest drivers they could find to get a semi flat response with a software generated low cost component crossover.
One thing that helps is to have kept some gear for many years. I still keep my 30 year old Luxman amp and my first high quality (German) tower speakers. I will rotate them in for fun, and I am amazed by how enjoyable they stil are. And I *have* compared that gear side to side with a Benchmark DAC and power amp combo, NAD Ncore power amp, and quite a few top speakers over the last 10 years.
And yes, I have done blind testings (thoroughly hateable as they are from a music enjoyment POV) with friends, on occasion also augmented with measuring gear to match stuff... but on long listening sessions, I think that the enjoyment factor (fuzzy as it maye be) is the more revealing aspect - rather than establish if I hear an extra 0.2% of castanet clarity somewhere or so, ugh.
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