Paradigm is known for its quality speakers that offer an “audibile difference.” For those not interested in shelling out a ton of money, these speakers are designed to offer a less-expensive option without sacrificing quality. Here Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity put one through its paces:
Paradigm has made a name for itself around the globe for delivering speakers that are consistently strong in accuracy, gigantic soundstage, very precise imaging, deep, powerful bass (which usually significantly increase the cost of other speaker manufacturers offerings) all while keeping the cost below the competition. They do all engineering in house, all speaker component manufacturing in house, all assembly in house and all testing in house. #1 Best Price/Value for 20 years in Inside Track Magazine and #1 Overall 6 times. The MilleniaOne is a satellite speaker that can be used in all five (or seven) channels, along with a subwoofer.
So how does it perform?
I initially ran the system in DPL IIx which employs all 5 speakers in the system but when critically listening to acoustic and solo vocal efforts I switched my Denon receiver to 2 channel stereo + sub mode which gives a significant increase to the front two speakers by cutting the power to the other 3. This extra amount of power really made the stereo pair sound dynamic, with much better clarity, detail and, ironically a phantom center that was much more expressive than when the center had actually been playing.
I think this system would benefit from a separate 5 channel amp pushing at least 125 watts continuous with all channels driven (and 150 would be even better). This speaker system really grew on me. I’m not sure how much of this is due to break in and how much is due to it being a really easy-listening natural-sounding speaker that does very little wrong and will really wake up when you want it to. On the other hand, after we put our twins to bed it also did an excellent job with low-level listening and allowing us to hear dialogue without blaring loud intermediates.
Read the complete review here at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity.
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