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High-Frequency Drive Units
Designed, engineered and manufactured by Paradigm in North America, these
remarkable drivers exhibit the timbral clarity and transparency otherwise
associated with the best electrostatic or ribbon designs. Sonic reproduction is
exceptionally smooth, detailed and free of spurious resonances.
• G-PAL
™
Gold-Anodized Pure-Aluminum Domes:
Exceptionally rigid low-mass domes with treated textile suspensions ensure
remarkably uniform and instantaneous power response. The elevated position
of the dome provides better ‘air’ and frequency response that is smooth, pure
and clear.
• Die-Cast Aluminum WaveGuide
™
Chassis and Phase Alignment Bridge:
Promote maximally flat response, wide dispersion and accurate phase across
a wide listening window.
• High-Pressure Die-Cast Aluminum Chassis:
Eliminate mechanical flexing and ringing and provide a heatsink for superior
power handling.
• Dual High-Power Ferrite/Ceramic Magnets:
Powerful ferrite/ceramic magnet structures promote an extremely high field
force in the magnetic gap and increase overall thermal mass for greater
power handling.
• Advanced Motor Structures:
Ferro-fluid cooling and damping, high-temperature voice coils and ventilated
Apica l
™
forme rs ensure sup erb accu racy a nd reliabi lity, as well as exception ally
linear response.
Midrange and Bass Drive Units
Designed, engineered and manufactured by Paradigm in North America, these
highly refined drivers are virtually free of unwanted vibrational resonances,
cone standing waves and micro distortions. They offer stunning midrange clarity,
superb resolution of inner details and outstanding definition and dynamics.
• S-PAL
™
Satin-Anodized Pure-Aluminum Midrange
and Bass/Midrange Cones:
Very high stiffness-to-mass ratio and outstanding internal damping. The
result? Remarkable midrange clarity, superb extended bass response and
freedom from unwanted resonances and distortions.
• Advanced Mineral-Filled Polypropylene Bass Cones:
Highly damped and tremendously rigid, the cones provide tight, well-defined
low-frequency response with a weight and authority that does justice to even
the most challenging music and movie material.
• Advanced Santoprene
®
Rubber and Synthetic Butyl Suspensions:
The elliptical-shaped Santoprene
®
rubber suspensions allowed us to achieve
even lower levels of distortion with deeper and louder bass performance.
Extreme linearity, the finest yet in Studio Series, is an important aspect of
this design.
• Heatsinks and AVS
™
Airflow Ventilation System Cooling:
Improve high-power handling, ensure ultra-low distortion and result in
greater long-term reliability.
• High-Pressure Die-Cast Aluminum Chassis:
Control mechanical flexing and ringing. Since aluminum is non-magnetic,
the possibility of magnetic loss is eliminated.
• Satin-Anodized Solid-Aluminum Phase Plugs:
The phase plug design promotes better airflow for improved cooling and
increased power handling while fostering extended frequency response.
Critically shaped to further contribute to the exceptionally accurate phase
response and wide dispersion.
• Die-Cast Aluminum Rear Damping Chambers:
Asymmetrically tapered shape eliminates internal standing waves. (Dedicated
midrange drivers only.)
• Oversize Magnet Assemblies with Symmetrical Focused Field Geometry:
Low distortion and exceptional linearity even under extreme conditions.
• Advanced Motor Structures:
High-temperature multi-layer voice coils with ventilated Apical
™
formers
provide tremendous accuracy, reliability and excellent linear response.