Glad you are happy with your purchase, but honestly, there is no best in class. Only best for whomever owns them. That's the reality. Looks too are subjective also. That's reality.
As I posted on a Paradigm forum on another board, they are nice speakers. I have heard them enough times to make a good judgment for MYSELF. I'm glad they got a nice review, but just like reviews for Vandersteen's (my market winner) they are from reviewers in their system and should be taken that way. It's a great start to a search, but a great review does not really 'validate' any component. We all want our own buyers validation though and it comes out in many peoples post, including mine. That's human nature and isn't changing anytime soon.
BTW Troy, you really need to go back and read your post about first order crossovers. A few of the things you say are true of them, but they can be done properly, it's just that it's so hard and very expensive to do. Vandersteen, Avalon and a few others over the years have done a great job and not that the tech can support it even better, you can get some great speakers using it.
Sell on as that's how your posts come across. Sorry, but they really do and they don't have to. There are many dealers who are on these boards and they aren't selling like you seem to do (off the board I've spoken with others who feel the same way I do, but they don't post and before you ask, only a couple own Vandersteen's or Ayre or Basis or any other gear that I love. I actually told one to go to the local store here to audition the 9h's as he's in this price range.).
Overall it's the best effort by Paradigm and if it wasn't for Vandersteen's, I'd have brought a pair home to see how it worked in my room even though my wife hates how they look (she want's zero drivers to ever show), but it's still kind of my room, lol.
As I posted on a Paradigm forum on another board, they are nice speakers. I have heard them enough times to make a good judgment for MYSELF. I'm glad they got a nice review, but just like reviews for Vandersteen's (my market winner) they are from reviewers in their system and should be taken that way. It's a great start to a search, but a great review does not really 'validate' any component. We all want our own buyers validation though and it comes out in many peoples post, including mine. That's human nature and isn't changing anytime soon.
BTW Troy, you really need to go back and read your post about first order crossovers. A few of the things you say are true of them, but they can be done properly, it's just that it's so hard and very expensive to do. Vandersteen, Avalon and a few others over the years have done a great job and not that the tech can support it even better, you can get some great speakers using it.
Sell on as that's how your posts come across. Sorry, but they really do and they don't have to. There are many dealers who are on these boards and they aren't selling like you seem to do (off the board I've spoken with others who feel the same way I do, but they don't post and before you ask, only a couple own Vandersteen's or Ayre or Basis or any other gear that I love. I actually told one to go to the local store here to audition the 9h's as he's in this price range.).
Overall it's the best effort by Paradigm and if it wasn't for Vandersteen's, I'd have brought a pair home to see how it worked in my room even though my wife hates how they look (she want's zero drivers to ever show), but it's still kind of my room, lol.