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| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen To the gentleman who heard a pair of the bookshelfs sound dull there is something wrong. Most metal tweeters sound bright regardless of them being aluminium, titianium, or beyrllium and are prized for their speed and clarity.Beyrllium is rated as ... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen Thanks you Gpg for calling out our bad behavior. You are the close minded type of person that doesnt understand the nature of the industry. Nor do you know any of our intentVery rarely do any of these Audiogon discussions lead to real sales.Nor do... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen You are also mistaking the fact that I was a big fan of the Infinitys of that time period. One of my favorite speakers was the Betas,I would say that by today's standards they are dated, the Persona's uncover way more detail and are built better | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen Oakteekid,The older Paradigms did not use a pure Beryllium tweeter, they were an alloy design. The new Persona's use a Pure Beryllium foil.Usher and Paradigm as well as numerous others have used alloys none of these drivers had the same level of c... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen Boy you guys are really nuts and I mean Oakteekid and GrpgruFirst we have a gentleman who is turned off by my friend Dave who is known in the industry as a man who knows his stuff and producing great sound, for recommending or extolling the virtu... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen One Ascend may make a nice speaker, but they do not have the engineering prowess or pocket book to make their own drivers from scratch, I mean no offense to the guy from Ascend but lets face facts. Two: The Beryillium tweeter in the Personas is pu... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen OkeeteekidThis is a thread on the Personas, not a thread on the older Infinity IRS products and of course a gigantic speaker is going to produce a scale that even a top notch speaker such as the Persona can not equil.I have heard the older IRS as ... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen No I never said they are a cost no object speaker, I said they compare and can compete with many of the best small boutique companies and can easily compete with with Magico, Rockport, Wilson, B&W, Focals and YG, models that are priced in the ... | |
| Looking for a Speaker Recommnedation If you are in our neck of the woods New York/New Jersey we have quite a large number of speakers that are fantastic in your price range and we have two of the models you are looking at:We have the Legacy Focus Signatures, the PSB T3, KEF R Series,... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen from Stone Studios: Beryllium. Used only by TAD-Pioneer in its professional drivers, beryllium is the ultimate metal for use in diaphragms. It stiffness to weight ratio is the highest of any known metal. Although its self damping is not inherentl... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen We have the KEF Blades on display as well, which use KEF's best drivers, the Blades Uni Q driver features a driver of Aluminium with a low mass stiffening ring, and the Personas are even more transparent. It is not just the stiffness and mass of ... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen The moving mass of a driver is important, you are missing one of the other major advantages of the material, ie Beryllium is self damping, aluminium is not. The purity of tone is what makes Beryllium so extraordinary.Also Ribbon tweeters have othe... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen The other thing to note is that many people use Seas or Scan Speak Beryllium tweeters but neither of these companies is making a pure Beryllium midrange driver.Why is Beryllium so superb it is extremely light, it is stiffer than Titanium, it is al... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen Actually no. Beryllium has almost never been used for a midrange driver. Usher has one but it is an alloy. TAD made a Beryllium midrange in their original series. Beryllium is a highly toxic and very difficult material to work with so very few co... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen Thanks Blackfly you summed up my feelings perfectly.All I can tell you guys is that both myself, long time engineer and hobbyist, and my friend Dave we go about things a bit differently.I have known Dave since meeting him at one of the early New ... |