Tyler Acoustic vs. Paradigm

Loose,

What about the Epos 12 do you like?

I've never heard a Tyler speaker but have heard a number of Paras. Two neighbors in my 'hood have floorstanders and I recently auditioned a pair of the high end stand mounts with the beautiful finish. None of them drew me in and the stand mounted was actually a little irritating, a little brittle.

the midrange on the entire paradigm line is as flat as a pancake(measured as such). also compare them to the tyler.

The question is - Which is most important to you - How a speaker sounds, or how a speaker measures? hmm....

actually loudspeakers that measure well tend to sound lackluster in an in-store audition when compared to speakers that focus on exagerating certain 'pleasing' frequencies. you will find however that speakers that measure well, tend to stay in your system longer and allow you to play all catagories of music and favor none. a well designed speaker can also be paired to a variety of quality gear, without disasterous results. how a speaker sounds to you will also change as you age. The best sounding paradigm speaker i ever heard was a model called the 'export'. to my ears it is still better than anything either of these companies makes today. a classic.

Measuring a loudspeaker at a given input volume of, say 85 db input, from 10Hz to 20Khz does not necessarily give a realistic picture of the corresponding dynamically measured output of the speaker. For example, how different would that same data look, if one were to show the same frequency sweeps with graphs at various input/output levels, using fairly disperate input spl's. This should explain why two speakers which may measure virtually the same with an almost static input of one 'typical' spl (again 85db, across the span of 10Hz to 20Khz)may, (and oftentimes do) sound remarkably different. This is why the audition with real music is invaluable to the consumer.
This is one consideration as to why, when two people hear supposedly 'similar' speakers, similar from a 'measurement' standpoint, that they can sound so different from one another when music is applied under very different evaluation circumstances.