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Review ADP-590 • SERVO-15 “OVER-THE-TOP IMPRESSIVE … … Amazingly Balanced … Limitless Depth of Bass … Awe-Inspiring Dynamics.” PRODUCT STUDIO 100 • CC-690 review ADP-590 • SERVO-15 “OVER-THE-TOP IMPRESSIVE … … amazingly balanced … limitless depth of bass … awe-inspiring dynamics.” Reprinted with permission from by Ken Taraszka, MD n an ideal world, we would all have of similar drivers in all the I hundred-thousand-dollar-plus systems Studio speakers allows www.avrev.com in our home theaters, complete with all of for precise timber the latest goodies. Most of us make do with matching; all the what we can afford and accept compromises drivers in the Studio “Phenomenal speakers offering a vast for our given price points, with a few line are mounted indulgences mixed in when possible. The using Paradigm’s dynamic range mated with nimble Paradigm Studio series of loudspeakers is IMS/Shock-Mount designed to eliminate, if not drastically system that employs a highs and full, deep bass … smooth reduce, any compromise you have to make unique butyl rubber transitions for multichannel audio and for a true reference-level home theater system to help decouple system at an affordable price. Paradigm has the drivers from movies … fantastic … awesome … been a leader in high-performance loud- the cabinets. speakers since 1982, and has recently released I can’t imagine needing or wanting the fourth generation of their critically The new Studio 100 more … a theater experience rarely acclaimed Reference Studio loudspeakers. is a sizeable speaker I received for review the Studio 100 floor- measuring 44-1/2˝ found at any price, let alone what standing speakers and two completely new (113 cm) inches tall, additions to the Studio lineup, the Studio 8-1/4˝ (21 cm) wide these sell for.” CC-690 center channel and Studio ADP-590 and 17 ˝ (43.2 cm) adapted dipolar surrounds. Paradigm also deep. It has a five- sent along a Servo-15 subwoofer to complete driver, three-way this 5.1 package. design housing with, from top to bottom, While the Paradigm Studio line has been a 1˝ (25 mm) G-PAL highly regarded and well reviewed, Paradigm tweeter with a chassis has not sat idly by collecting checks from that extends in a slightly Studio 100 dealers. The newest version of the Studio built-up dome onto the line now employs the G-PAL gold-anodized top of the speaker, a 7˝ pure-aluminum dome tweeter previously (178 mm) S-PAL midrange driver then found only in their Signature line, a new three 7˝ (178 mm) mineral-filled S-PAL satin-anodized pure-aluminum polypropylene bass drivers, the front port midrange and bass/midrange cones and and an arched kick plate. The driver new bronze-anodized cast aluminum driver chassis are all 7/16˝ (11 mm) thick and chassis, top plate, kick plate and feet secured to the speaker cabinet with to enhance the Studio 100’s physical multiple hex bolts; the tweeter and port appearance. The new Studio center channels chassis are textured. All the driver chassis, are three-way designs to improve off-axis the kick plate and feet attachments are in a performance and dynamic range. The use beautiful new bronze-anodized aluminum STUDIO 100 • CC-690 • ADP-590 • SERVO-15 finish. This process gives a subtle metallic- impedance and frequency response of 53 Hz built-in 1200-watt class D amplifier capable of green hue to the hardware and the color was so to 20 kHz, with bass extension to 38 Hz at 4500-watt peaks, it can reproduce bass down utterly cool to look at that I found it hard to minus three decibels and a sensitivity of 91 dB to 12 Hz at minus three decibels. The subwoofer keep the grilles on. The multitude of drivers in room. Available in Cherry, Rosenut, or offers plenty of flexibility and all controls are and the cool frames made for a great look Black Ash finish, the center weighs 69 pounds. located on a large black panel on the lower rear alone, but the way it all is put together adds a The center channel is the most important of the speaker. From left to right, you find the degree of industrial flair that will surely appeal speaker for movies and multichannel audio, power switch and power-on options; the to any man. The speakers have a monolithic and the fact that Paradigm has made a center subwoofer can be left on at all times or appearance, with only a slightly domed top, similarly sized to their top-of-the-line fronts triggered either by the presence of an audio with outreaching footer attachments to break shows me they are clearly in touch with the signal or 12-volt triggers. Both balanced and the otherwise pillar-like look. The sides and evolving A/V market. single-ended low-level inputs come next with back of the speaker come in Cherry, Rosenut, a switch to select your choice. Next are a or Black Ash finish. The top is made of an variable phase alignment dial from zero to arched charcoal rubber. Two pairs of gold- “… bass produced by the Studio 100’s 180 degrees, an adjustable cut-off frequency plated five-way binding posts are set into a impressed — going to the lowest dial from 35 Hz to 150 Hz to aid integration plastic cup with accompanying gold-plated with your main speakers, an adjustable contour jumpers on the bottom rear, allowing for depths needed for anything except dial of zero to plus six decibels at 60 Hz to aid bi-wiring or bi-amping if desired. Four feet perhaps organ music … I never felt with integrating the sub into different rooms extend out from the sides of the base of the and, finally, a main level control. The power Studio 100 and can use either included spikes shorted of bass … showed their cord attaches to the lower left of the panel. The or rubber-tipped feet to help level and isolate subwoofer’s amplifier is thermally protected the speaker from the floor. The grille runs ability to handle serious bass and and has electrical shorting protection as well. almost the entire height of the front and is complex passages simultaneously … The Servo-15 is available in Cherry, Rosenut rounded off on the top and bottom covering and Black Ash finishes. the tweeter on top and transitioning into the easily handled the keyboards, vocals kick plate on the bottom. The grille is solidly “… the Studios did an amazing job secured at multiple points and has a lattice- and the subtle strumming of the work of plastic bars inside to keep its slightly guitar, while keeping the bass solid.” keeping all these elements separate arched shape; this is absent over the tweeter to minimize interference. Paradigm quotes a and powerfully displayed — even The new Studio ADP-590 rear/surround frequency response of 44 Hz to 22 kHz with speakers can be placed on stands or wall- at the 100 dB level … Bass was so low-frequency extension at minus three mounted with the included hardware. While decibels to 28 Hz and a sensitivity of 91 dB in nowhere near the size of the other speakers in impressive that I checked twice to room. The speakers have an impedance of this system, they house similar drivers in a make sure I wasn’t using the eight ohms and weigh in at 81 pounds apiece. smaller package. These adapted dipolar speakers have 1˝ (25 mm) G-PAL tweeters subwoofer … Bass was simply “… scratching of the frets — seemed and a 4˝ (115 mm) S-PAL midrange driver facing out of each side, and a single 7˝ felt as well as heard.” so real … guitar came through with (178 mm) forward-firing polypropylene bass driver, measuring 8-3/4˝ (22 cm) tall, 14-3/4˝ SET-UP a sharp and plucky nature …” (37.5 cm) at their widest point, 6-5/8˝ (17 cm) As I was walking through the operating room deep and weighing 17.5 lb (7.9 kg) each. one afternoon, my cell phone rang. “Ken, did The new Studio CC-690 center channel is also Quoted frequency response is 85 Hz to 20 kHz, you buy something? There’s a truck outside …” pretty large, measuring 9-1/2˝ (24 cm) tall, with bass extension to 60 Hz at minus three It was my wife, and I had to think quickly. 36˝ (91.5 cm) wide (without the grille or feet decibels and an impedance of eight ohms. Had I bought something that needed to be attached) and 15-1/2˝ (39.5 cm) deep. A six- They are available in Black Ebony or White freighted and I somehow forgot? The new driver, three-way design, the Studio CC-690 and are single-wire only. Paradigm Studio speakers were on their way comes magnetically shielded and houses a to review, but they were almost a week earlier 1˝ (25 mm) G-PAL tweeter above a 4-1/2˝ Completing this package is the Servo-15 than I expected. That must be it. I told my (115 mm) S-PAL midrange driver. These subwoofer, a beast of a speaker, weighing in wife to pull my car out of the garage and ask drivers are flanked by two 7˝ (178 mm) S-PAL at 114 lb (51.7 kg) and measuring 20-1/8˝ the delivery men put the pallet there for the bass/midrange drivers and then two 7˝ (51 cm) high by 18-1/8˝ (46 cm) wide and time being. My weekend plans had just been (178 mm) polypropylene bass drivers. The 21-1/2˝ (55 cm) deep.
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