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While many speaker companies do not have the resources to design and manufacture their own drive units, Paradigm purpose-designs robust drivers for specific speakers.

 


 

To ensure superb consistency, our crossovers boast hand-selected precision parts.

Our high-power, high-current amplifiers with oversized power supplies and massive heatsinks deliver tremendous (and instantaneous) power output at all times.

Use your knuckles! Rap on our enclosures! As one reviewer asserted, they’re as dead as we claim in our literature! Acoustically inert high-density hardboard reinforced by strategically located radial braces limit unwanted resonances and increase enclosure stiffness. At other times, no bracing is even required on our speakers, even on our most powerful subwoofers as they pound out the deepest, loudest bass imaginable … it’s all in the design!

Custom speakers, often referred to as architectural speakers — designs hidden out of sight in a wall or ceiling (for those who don’t have the space or want a minimalist approach to music and home theater) — are growing in popularity. Again, Paradigm is leading the way in this area. When it comes to in-wall/in-ceiling speakers, there is no substitute for good design build on years of experience producing the very best sounding freestanding designs. More than 25 years of intensive research and design backed by cutting-edge technology, much of it proprietary, lie behind every custom speaker we produce. The result? Sound reproduction that rivals that of the very best freestanding designs.

Precision. Consistency. Long-term reliability. These are inherent characteristics of even the smallest Paradigm component part. Technology and design that represent true innovation in the pursuit of perfection in audio reproduction. Out of this come sonic accuracy and purity, a clean, detailed and transparent reproduction of the original performance, nothing more, nothing less.

It starts with knowledge, it ends with knowing, knowing that you’ve created a better product … an audibly better product. You hear it in every Paradigm speaker produced!

 

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Micro Monitor

2-driver, 2-way bookshelf / stand-mounted


Overview

No Need to Give Up Fidelity to Get Loud!

Paradigm’s Monitor Series, with its proprietary SuperDrive™ technology, combines very high-efficiency with very high output and ultra-low distortion. Monitor speakers compete directly with the efficiency and output of major brands of horn speakers—they not only play as loud, their sound is authentically high-end. Even with moderately powered amplifiers, Monitor speakers deliver truly breathtaking performance. And in classic Paradigm tradition, unparalleled value too!

Advanced High-Efficiency M-ICP™ Minimum-Mass Injection-Molded Co-Polymer Bass/Midrange Cones teamed with advanced motor structures and oversized magnets provide exceptional sensitivity, superb power handling and truly tremendous output.

Advanced High-Power Carbon-Infused Bass Cones, highly damped and extremely rigid, provide tight, superbly defined and incredibly well-extended bass response.

Elevated Tweeter and Advanced WaveGuide™ Chassis foster exceptionally uniform response across a wide, deep listening window.

Low-Diffraction Magnetic Grilles fit like a glove! Perfectly centered over the baffle, when in position these stay-tight grilles won’t move ‘til you move them. Outrigger Feet on Floorstanding Models give added stability and stylish good looks. Nickel-plated screws add a high-tech touch.

Advanced H-PTD™ High-Efficiency Pure-Titanium Domes with ferro-fluid cooling encourage a winning combination of dome rigidity and low mass. Harmonics and air possess breathtaking clarity and accuracy. The result is performance that rivals far more expensive high-end speaker designs.

High-Pressure Die-Cast Aluminum or GRIP™ Glass - Reinforced Injection-Molded Polymer Chassis (varies by model) are exceptionally rigid to eliminate flexing and ringing, while also functioning as heatsinks for greater power handling.

NOTE: Micro Monitor differs in design from the other Monitor Series models. See specifications page for full details.

Specifications

SPECIFICATIONS
Design 2-driver, 2-way bookshelf / stand-mounted
Crossover 3rd-order electro-acoustic at 2.4 kHz
High-Frequency Driver 25-mm (1 in) PTD™ dome
Bass / Midrange Driver 140-mm (5-1/2 in) ICP™ cone,
25-mm (1 in) voice-coil
Low-Frequency Extension* 55 Hz (DIN)
Frequency Response:
On-Axis
30° Off-Axis

±2 dB from 89 Hz - 20 kHz
±2 dB from 89 Hz - 15 kHz
Sensitivity - Room / Anechoic 90 dB / 87 dB
Suitable Amplifier Power Range 15 - 80 watts
Maximum Input Power† 50 watts
Impedance Compatible with 8 ohms
Height, Width, Depth 24.7 cm x 16.5 cm x 23.1 cm
9-3/4 in x 6-1/2 in x 9-1/8 in
Weight (unpacked) 3.7 kg / 8.1 lb each
Finish Black Ash
Paradigm Stand (sold sep.) S-30

* DIN 45 500. Indicates -3 dB in a typical listening room.

† With typical program source, provided the amplifier clips
no more than 10% of the time.

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