Paradigm Premier 200B

The engineers and designers at Paradigm deserve nothing but praise for the Premier 200B. For a speaker that'll run you right at $1,000 per pair, you get performance that rivals speakers costing much, much more. The tweeter provides a crystal clear high end without coloration, while the mid/woofer adds depth, detail, and punch to what you're listening to, be it a track from Billy Joel or a film from Steven Spielberg 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, Paradigm found that the spot where the two meet can cause some unwanted distortion, particularly at high excursion points. They discovered that by "overmolding" the woofer cone to the surround, they could get 50% more excursion and far less distortion than traditional surrounds. Both the patented 1" pure aluminum dome tweeter and the 6-1/2" mid/bass woofer use Paradigm's PPA (...