Paradigm Premier 100B

If you're looking to step up your home system's performance, you might be thinking you'll need to spend thousands to get to that next level. Luckily, Paradigm's Premier line was built to rival speakers costing much more. The Premier 100B bookshelf speaker is the smallest entry in the series, and it offers nuanced, audiophile-grade sound backed by careful research. Meticulously crafted in Canada, this speaker comes loaded with state-of-the-art drivers in a heavily braced cabinet with your choice of furniture-grade finish. The amount of research Paradigm conducts on sound and speaker design always impresses me. Take the ART™ (Active Ridge Technology) surround used in this speaker's woofer. In studying how woofer cones and surrounds interact, they found that the spot where the two meet can cause some unwanted distortion, particularly at high excursion points. Paradigm discovered that by "overmolding" the woofer cone to the surround, they could get 50% more excursion and far less distortion than traditional su...