Technology, by definition, is the practical application of knowledge. When it comes to sound reproduction, no one knows more than Paradigm. When it comes to the practical application of that knowledge we’re committed to doing it better! Better measurements, better materials, better components always result in better sound … and better speakers.

While many speaker companies do not have the resources to design and manufacture their own drive units, Paradigm purpose-designs robust drivers for specific speakers.

 


 

To ensure superb consistency, our crossovers boast hand-selected precision parts.

Our high-power, high-current amplifiers with oversized power supplies and massive heatsinks deliver tremendous (and instantaneous) power output at all times.

Use your knuckles! Rap on our enclosures! As one reviewer asserted, they’re as dead as we claim in our literature! Acoustically inert high-density hardboard reinforced by strategically located radial braces limit unwanted resonances and increase enclosure stiffness. At other times, no bracing is even required on our speakers, even on our most powerful subwoofers as they pound out the deepest, loudest bass imaginable … it’s all in the design!

Custom speakers, often referred to as architectural speakers — designs hidden out of sight in a wall or ceiling (for those who don’t have the space or want a minimalist approach to music and home theater) — are growing in popularity. Again, Paradigm is leading the way in this area. When it comes to in-wall/in-ceiling speakers, there is no substitute for good design build on years of experience producing the very best sounding freestanding designs. More than 25 years of intensive research and design backed by cutting-edge technology, much of it proprietary, lie behind every custom speaker we produce. The result? Sound reproduction that rivals that of the very best freestanding designs.

Precision. Consistency. Long-term reliability. These are inherent characteristics of even the smallest Paradigm component part. Technology and design that represent true innovation in the pursuit of perfection in audio reproduction. Out of this come sonic accuracy and purity, a clean, detailed and transparent reproduction of the original performance, nothing more, nothing less.

It starts with knowledge, it ends with knowing, knowing that you’ve created a better product … an audibly better product. You hear it in every Paradigm speaker produced!

 

Advanced Design

Frequency response measurements clearly indicate the degree to which unwanted resonances and colorations have been brought under control. Thus, the ability to measure accurately is a fundamental part of building a better speaker.

At Paradigm, our concern with sonic accuracy led us to create research and development facilities that are among the most sophisticated and comprehensive in the world:

  • Two controlled double-blind listening room for repeatable, accurate subjective speaker analysis
  • 36,000-cu-ft (more than 1 million litres) high-resolution anechoic chamber
  • Highly advanced digital data-acquisition measurement system operated with software developed and written by Paradigm researchers (right)
  • PARC, the Paradigm Advanced Research Center, a facility dedicated to the design of state-of-the-art electronics, software and advanced technologies

We also take advantage of a number of highly advanced tools for component design. One of the most useful is a process called Finite Element Analysis, or FEA. FEA can be used to optimize drive units and enclosures, detect break-up distortion in cones and domes, monitor magnetic flow or heat dissipation, perform stress analysis, and more.

We use FEA to help design a magnet structure. First, a simulation of the structure is fed into the FEA program. After assigning detailed sets of material properties (simulating steel or ceramic, for example) to each of its components, the entire structure is broken down into a mesh of connected points, or elements. Our engineers can then enact "What if…" Scenarios, making "virtual" material substitutions or design changes and observing their effects on the magnet structure as a whole.

Using FEA and other such processes to optimize speakers, Paradigm engineers can develop prototype after prototype before actually building a single speaker. And since improving speakers is a continual experimental process, the ability to almost endlessly experiment helps us produce consistently better-sounding, more reliable speakers.

 

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