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When it comes to home theater, although the size and quality of
the video picture are important, it takes an accurate high-performance
speaker system to really bring movies to Life!
And not just movies.
Increasing numbers of artists are releasing music in multi-channel
DVD-Audio and SACD. When recorded and engineered aesthetically, multi-channel
music accurately reproduces the full dimension of the original acoustic space
with realism that could never be achieved with conventional two-channel recordings.
Movies and music do not require different types of speakers. Musically accurate
speakers have the sonic precision needed to reproduce music as well as movie
dialogue and special effects cleanly and naturally. The proven musical accuracy
of Paradigm speakers satisfies the critical demands of both music and movies!
Paradigm - SURROUNDS THAT SURROUND YOU ::
Movie theaters use multiple arrays of surround / rear speakers to keep
viewers from being distracted by the sound of any single one.
Conventional forward radiating speakers cannot reproduce movie theater surround
sound in your home. If they are loud enough for their sound to blend with the
front speakers they draw attention to themselves. Turn them down so they don't
distract you and they won't blend with the fronts.
 So
how can you hear all of the glorious surround sound you're supposed
to? With reverberant sound field surround / rear speakers placed to
the sides and the rear of the listener.
Like movie theater surround speakers, reverberant surround / rear speaker envelop
you in sound without drawing your attention away from the movie you are watching.
They add size and dimension to the soundstage and ensure a seamless transition
when sound and effects move from the front and center to side and rear speakers.
Like movie theater surround speakers, reverberant surround / rear speaker envelop
you in sound without drawing your attention away from the movie you are watching.
They add size and dimension to the soundstage and ensure a seamless transition
when sound and effects move from the front and center to side and rear speakers.
They're just as important for multi-channel music. Because of their ability
to create a localized sound field. They contribute multidimensional realism
to the reproduction of the original recording's acoustic space.
The diffuse sound of reverberant surround / rear speakers turns your
listening into a magical experience - They put the "Theater" in home theater
and make music sound "live".
LEND US YOURS EARS
The fundamentals of natural sound travel uniformly in all directions a
piano, for example, distributes sound throughout a room.
Our hearing favors speakers that reproduce sound in the same way. Wide-dispersion
speakers sound more real because they too fill the room. Limited-dispersion
speakers sound less realistic because they beam, or project sound into only
one area.
 Wide
dispersion throughout a speaker's bandwidth is difficult to achieve.
Most high-frequency and bass/midrange drive units have good dispersion
at the lower limits of their frequency range, but they naturally start
to beam as they reach their upper-frequency limits. With high-performance
high-frequency drivers beaming occurs beyond audibility. Beaming from
midrange drivers, however, occurs within the audible range. Speakers
with beaming problems will not sound the same in all areas of a room.
They may sound balanced in one area, hut nasal, dull, or even harsh
and shrill in other areas.
Midrange beaming can be reduced by lowering the crossover frequency. The high-frequency
driver's lower range will then provide wider dispersion and the bass/midrange
driver's output can be rolled off before its dispersion narrows. This is an
effective approach but requires the use of high-frequency drivers that can
handle the vast amounts of power it takes to reproduce these lower frequencies.
This driver must be very robust and as a consequence, will be expensive In
produce. Many speaker companies are unwilling to incur the cost of high-power
high-frequency drivers, thus not all speakers have uniformly wide dispersion.
When we hoar sound only some of it reaches us directly. The rest we hear
after it reflects off room surfaces.
Imagine listening to a saxophone in a club. Direct sound gives us the ability
to locate that sax in the center of the stage, for example, in front of the
drummer with a guitar on one side and a bass on the other.
Now imagine listening to a singer in a concert hall. Reflected sound provides
us with information about the acoustic environment in which we hear the voice
(for example, a large hall with a great deal of ambience). Speakers have to
recreate both direct and reflected sound. Direct sound provides localization
cues it helps us identify the location of individual instruments, voices and
sound effects within the soundstagc. Reflected sound provides spaciousness
a sense of the acoustic environment (or of the 'virtual' sonic environment
created in a recording studio).
Moreover, the balance of direct and reflected sound is critically important.
Too much direct output results in a narrow soundstage. An over-abundance of
reflected sound makes it difficult to localize individual voices, instruments
and effects. An accurate balance provides a sonic image so real it can make
us forget we're listening to speakers.
For more than two decades the National Research Council (NRC) in Ottawa,
Canada, researched the nature of the relationship between how speakers sound
and their measurable characteristics.
In hundreds of scientifically controlled double-blind tests with all different
types of music, both novice listeners and experienced audiophiles were asked
to grade speakers on their sound. Speakers were then grouped by listener preference
and measured.
NRC researchers analyzed the results and concluded that there was a direct
correlation between good sound and good measurements in three principal areas
(see below). They further concluded that in order of priority, all listeners
clearly favor.
:: Paradigm Home Theater Stereo Surround Sound Speakers & Subwoofers ::
Paradigm Main Home Theater Stereo Surround Sound Speakers
Paradigm Reference Stereo Surround Speakers
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