Are the Paradigm Founder Series really, really good speakers?

@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.

@dep14 . Thank you for your input. I am auditioning the 100 and 120 this week. I have at my disposal my beloved 4B Bryston and should I crave even more power I also have 2 Hypex Ncore500 mono blocks that I could use in a Bi amp configuration to pick up the low end on the 100fs. Alternatively I could keep the D class amps to power my whole home in ceiling speakers and keep the Bryston to use exclusively for use with either the 100Fs or the 120Hs. I will be auditioning a pair of Focal Kanta 2 as well although I have been hearing less favourable reviews  lately. Cheers

@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.

@todd1010 

If you like the sound but want more bottom end support, moving up to the 100F would be a good idea if the additional cost is worth it to “you”.  Simpler and probably cheaper than adding subs.