Paradigm Introduces Founder Series Premium Loudspeaker Series

Canadian audio specialist Paradigm launched its Founder Series, a six-model range of premium loudspeakers that brings high-end performance and luxurious style to hi-fi and home cinema systems. Designed for today’s modern living spaces, the Founder Series is a foundational development of all speaker design aspects aiming for precise control and game-changing dynamics in music and media reproduction. Every single speaker features totally new driver designs.

I frequently learn about new products from brands large and small, which sometimes remain unnoticed for multiple reasons (and I don't mean by the press) regardless of how innovative they are. That's a topic in itself to be addressed in a separate editorial one of these days... This week, I spent some time looking at a few speakers that I think deserve a spotlight. Please note that I have not heard those speakers. I just think they are interesting products that deserve a mention.

Following the introduction of its completely new Excel Graphene Woofer Series with the W16NX003 (E0073-08), followed recently by the 19-series W19NX001 (E0076-08), SEAS Fabrikker announced the third product in the line, the W18EX003 (E0074-08). According to SEAS, the new line is designed for truthful high-res audio reproduction with outstanding clarity and dynamic capability in mind, and the new W18EX003 represents a successor to the famous W18EX001 (E0017-08) model. All Excel Graphene drivers feature a graphene-coated magnesium cone.

In this edition of Test Bench I characterized a transducer from Tang Band (TB) Speaker, the 25-2234SD, a new 1” high-resolution dome tweeter with response to 40 kHz. The 25-2234SD is a compact tweeter that features a 1” aluminum/magnesium inverted dome, a neodymium motor structure, an injection-molded faceplate, a protective grill, and a rear cavity with magnetic fluid in the motor gap for cooling. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, June 2018.

Periodic Audio will celebrate their first anniversary at CanJam NYC 2018 (17-18 February 2018) with new product introductions and some headphone measurement education. After a highly successful first year that saw launches of their trio of in-ear monitor (IEM) headphones -the Be, Ti, and Mg - Periodic Audio returns to the Big Apple to launch the first amplifier product, the Nickel (Ni) portable amplifier, initially previewed at RMAF 2017, and which is now available at an MSRP of $299.

These Test Bench samples came from Germany. From Eton I received the 29HD2, its neodymium motor tweeter, with a fairly rich feature set that includes an aluminum faceplate, a 28 mm diameter magnesium diaphragm with a ceramic coating on both sides protected by a cosmetically attractive grill/phase plug, and driven by an aluminum former wound with round copper-clad aluminum wire (CCAW). This article was originally published in Voice Coil, April 2017.