Paradigm lanserte nylig sin satsing i det øverste High End segmentet; Persona Serien. Målsetningen var å utvikle en serie høyttaler med et tilsvarende pris/kvalitetsforhold som Paradigm har blitt kjent for.
Med toppmodellen 9H har Paradigm hatt som mål å konkurrere med langt dyrere produkter. Dette har de også klart, skal vi tro den siste omtalen i The Absolute Sound, hvor Persona 9H overgår anmelderens sine egne referansehøytalere + hans 2 dedikerte subwoofere på flere punkter. Dette er velkjente høyttalere som koster fra 860.000,- avhengig av finish. Subwooferne kommer i tillegg.
Utdrag fra The Absolute Sound:
"Let me begin with the conclusion. The Paradigm Persona 9H is a new assault on the state of the art in speaker design by one of Canada’s leading companies. It may cost some $35,000 a pair, but it’s one of the best speaker systems I have ever had the opportunity to listen to or review."
"The treble and midrange drivers are also exceptional and as important to the 9H’s success as its bass drivers, power, and room correction”
"I got better and smoother bass out of the Paradigm Persona 9H in a variety of room locations than I have with any other system that did not have room correction. Moreover, it outperformed any other pair of speakers—or pair with separate subwoofers—that did have room correction. It measured better; it did a better job with a wide range of bass warble tones; and, most importantly, it sounded better with organ, jazz, rock, and the kind of sonic spectaculars you may hate as music but can’t resist using to test your system."
"The Paradigm Persona 9Hs not only provide the best overall bass response I’ve had in my listening room, it did so when playing back deep bass at subwoofer frequencies and loudness levels. It virtually eliminated the mountain-sized bass resonance peaks that are inevitable in most real-world listening rooms, and it filled in much of the equally deep valleys in bass response."
"Summary — One of the best around. Highly recommended."
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