Are the Paradigm Founder Series really, really good speakers?

I don't often like Paradigm, or agree with @audiotroy.

But I've demo'd the 100's a couple times now.  Easily the most impressed I've been with a Paradigm speaker in years, maybe ever.  Not perfect, but even the bass from those triple 7's - damn good.

I imagine those 120H's are awfully good.

I'm actually quite interested to somehow demo the active Legacy Signature XD and Focus XD vs the 120H.  

The founders did indeed have a huge soundstage which I like.  They are more forgiving than the Persona's also.

While my current speakers do not have active woofers, I'm pretty convinced it's the way to go in the future.

I am interested to compare soundstage size of the Founder 120H vs the Legacy Speakers. (I admit to liking a huge, almost exaggerated soundstage at times).

@mdhowes I have the 120H, it is an excellent speaker.  It should fill a pretty big room without much of an issue.  Great speaker, I really dig mine.  Huge soundstage, excellent imaging and the EQ'd bass with the big class D amps is tremendous.  

I would tell you they put you in the front 10 rows of a concert so to speak, some like to sit a little further back. So, I would give you that as the caveat.  But I really like them.  I've not loved most paradigm in the past, but these are excellent and don't take much to drive them.  I'm using a solid state amp to push the mids and highs, if you wanted to play with that part of the sound a bit, you could easily use a tube amp, or integrated amp also.  They are not EQ'd up top.  Just 300hz down with the class D amps.

@mdhowes 

The demo is relatively worthless if they haven't properly EQ'd the woofers.  Without it, you will hear prodigious bass out put with the 120's, but just know that the EQ works really well.

While the woofers look the same, I believe the 120H woofers are larger also.

if my system was 2 channel only these days, I would probably play around with integrated amps to slightly shape the mids and highs that way.  That said, using a Paradigm A31 and they sound great.