Paradigm Persona series


I'm beginning to poke around and gather opinions and information about a "super speaker" to replace my aging Thiel 2.4s.  I like the idea of bass dsp room correction and I am a bit of a point source type imaging nut (thus the Thiels).  So among other choices I've been looking at the Paradigm Persona series specifically the powered 9H with room correction for the bass.  However I'm skeptical of the "lenses" i.e. pierced metal covers on the midrange and tweeter specifically because of Paradigm's claim that such screens "screen out" "out of phase" musical information.  The technology in the design seems superlative but I just can't get past the claim re out of phase information and the midrange and tweeter covers.  What could possibly be the science behind this claim?  It just seems like its putting a halloween moustache on the mona lisa given the fact that the company is generally a technology driven company.
pwhinson
This has nothing to do with being flat or rolled off. The FR with wild swings of -/+ 5 dB indicates some serious issues, most likely from the midrange breakup area (5-8Khz).
Also, unacceptable THD in the upper mid.

@audiotroy - With all due respect regarding your post above, an anechoic chamber (an-echoic meaning "non-reflective, non-echoing, echo-free") is a room designed to effectively absorb any reflections of sound. So any "normal" (non-anechoic) listening room even with acoustic treatments will inherently have more reflective surfaces and therefore be more lively (brighter) than an anechoic chamber, not less so. If you’ve ever been in such a chamber it is an eerily quiet and dead sounding environment, so if a speaker is measured to have significant peaks in response anechoically it will only be exacerbated by the additional reflectivity of a non-anechoic room.
Mofojo, did you notice that Revel changed the tweeter from Titanium to Beryillium in the later incarnation of the Salon's did you ever wonder why, also there are very few people talking about them so if they were the class leader they would be generating a lot more excitement on these boards.

Bill_K you missed our point entirely, yes an anchoic room has no reflections and are designed to allow for good measurements. 

If you design a speaker with a rising top end it may mean that the designers felt that the speakers would sound more exciting for one, for two many audiophiles who are older have dips in their hearing and three many audio room are Living Rooms with lots of absorbtative furniture.

Would the Personas or any other super clean loudspeakers sound good in a sparsely furnished room probably not, the demo we did with the 3F was in a large room it had carpeting and drapes, and big couches and the 3F on the Naim gear sounded fantastic in that room without a lick of hardness. 

Remember one persons bright is another person's detailed and alive, one person's musical is another persons's dull and lifeless.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
I really wish bo1972 would find this thread. Then we could have a steel cage death match between Tru-Fi and Persona.
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