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Anthem AV Solutions offers Paradigm high-end loudspeakers in the UK (7/4/2009)

Multi-award winning Canadian loudspeaker manufacturer with enviable R&D reputation appoints new UK distributor

Paradigm is a brand new to the UK, but it is set to become synonymous with high performance and R&D excellence. This Canadian engineering powerhouse manufactures a family of exquisite loudspeaker designs that deliver new benchmarks in sound quality and cabinet craftsmanship.

For over twenty-five years Paradigm has set the standard with state-of-the-art design, precision engineering, use of the finest materials, complete in-house manufacturing and exhaustive testing. Add in an ongoing partnership with The National Research Council (NRC) of Canada and you see that this is a company committed to building the very best loudspeaker it can at a specific price point.

Its Research and Development facilities are counted among the most advanced in the world. From these facilities concepts and designs are developed into concrete products to keep Paradigm at the leading edge of speaker technology. Its new Ontario-based factory designs and builds the company's own drive units, crossover networks, electronics, amplifiers, plastics and enclosures - and even its own tooling, production and testing equipment - to ensure greater precision and superior quality control.

While many speaker companies simply do not have the resources to design and manufacture their own drive units, Paradigm purpose-designs drivers for each of its speakers. The same goes for the cabinets - acoustically inert, high-density hardboard, reinforced by strategically located radial braces limiting unwanted resonances and increasing enclosure stiffness.

Products such as the Signature Series underline Paradigm's engineering expertise. The range includes the flagship six driver, three-way floorstanding £6999 Signature 8 - which weighs a back breaking 90.7kg - along with the C5, the six driver, three and a half way centre channel, and ADP 3, a five driver, three way rear effects channel for those a wanting the full surround sound experience. Low frequencies can be obtained from the monstrous Signature SUB 25, which is powered by 3000W of Class D amplification.

Equally impressive are the company's matching CI/pro designs such as the £999 SIG 1.5R-30 with angled drivers and pure beryllium tweeter. This is designed, as you would expect, to tonally match the rest of the Signature Series speaker line-up.

In the UK, Anthem AV Solutions, the newly appointed authorised distributor, will handle Paradigm products.

www.anthemavs.co.uk