PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS & AWARDS

[Translated] Paradigm engineers succeeded in a real "tour de force": Persona 7F sounds so great that they can compete with speakers that are 2-3 times more expensive. Despite the considerable price, they can be safely given the title of Best Buy.

During my time with Paradigm's Persona 7Fs, they consistently projected a wonderfully open, detailed, effortless top end capable of communicating vast amounts of space, balance, drive -- and, inevitably, emotion. These all-important sonic attributes were matched only by the awe-inspiring depths to which the 7Fs could dig; never, without a subwoofer in play, had I heard in my room bass so deep or so articulate, or that so powerfully evoked my own emotional responses. And yet neither the 7F's effortless top-end nor its prodigious bottom-end reproduction was its most appealing quality; that accolade must go to the 7F's unfailingly neutral and natural-sounding midrange. In the Persona 7F, Paradigm has created an all-out assault on the high end. During my time with them, the Persona 7Fs have proven themselves a benchmark product at their price point, which makes granting them a Reviewers' Choice award a foregone conclusion. A damned impressive speaker!

'In the Persona 7F,' Aron concluded, 'Paradigm has created an all-out assault on the high end.' He felt that giving the speaker a Reviewers' Choice award was thus 'a foregone conclusion.' When we read that, we knew that adding the Paradigm Persona 7F to our list of Recommended Reference Components was another conclusion foregone.

In the Persona 7F, Paradigm has created an all-out assault on the high end.

[Translated] Like any other high-end speakers, Paradigm Persona 7F requires careful selection of the system and attention to accessories. However, the result obtained can exceed all bold expectations.

The Paradigm Persona 7F is one of the most enjoyable speaker sets that I’ve had the pleasure of auditioning in my home. Beyond being a visually arresting example of fine industrial design, they are also sonically satisfying reproducers of music and a worthy addition to the top tier of Paradigm’s offerings. They certainly have that elusive “alive” quality to their sonic fingerprint that eludes many speakers out there in the high-end marketplace. They not only sound the part but look it as well, with a modern yet still organic design that should satisfy any prospective owner for years to come. There is no doubt that Paradigm pulled out all the stops with this one, with the beryllium drivers, advanced cabinet design and other technologies that they refined over the years. They were looking to make a statement and boy, did they. If twenty-five grand just happens to be sitting in your mad-money account and you are itching for a pair of be-all- to end-all speakers, you owe yourself a listen to the Paradigm Persona 7Fs. Outstanding is an understatement!

At the Hi-Fi & High End Show in Moscow, Paradigm Persona 7F won the top prize in the category of the best acoustic systems.

Paradigm's director of product development, Oleg Bogdanov, explains how dual-voice-coil technology, found in flagship Persona speakers and the Seismic 110 subwoofer, eliminates or dramatically reduces sources of distortion in loudspeakers.

A 5.5-inch surround with carbon-infused polypropylene cone with a larger PPA lens handles the midrange frequency driver, and two 5.5-inch ART surround polypropylene cones provide the bottom end.