Quote Originally Posted by RGA
If I say something good about a Paradigm speaker - and I do often no one says anything - say something bad then wow everyone goes on a tirade. Other people like Kex says some $300.00 speaker blows his 40V2's out of the water and no one says anything.
Oh geez, I did say that, didn't I....Destroy, or blow out of the water is too strong. But they are significantly better....I'm sorry guys, please don't flame me...uhh...go Paradigm go!
Want another one, I bought a really cheap (though heavily modified) BIC America DV-62CLRS speaker that outperformed my cousins CC-370 and Monitor 5's in a head to head audition, and wrote some reviews...waiting to get flamed for that too...

Actually I find Paradigm is quickly becoming the next JBL as someone else on another forum mentioned to me. It seems in this industry, any time someone enjoys mass success, particularly among knowledgeable people, the audiophile community rejects it as being mainstream and inferior for a whole bunch of odd ball reasons. And vice-versa, more exotic gear is often deemed better just because it's not as popular. Paradigm's definitely at that stage now.
I don't think Paradigm makes a bad sounding speaker. They make some great values, and some not so great values (Signatures, Monitor 7's, 11's, Studio 100's) IMO. What I don't like is money to someone else though.

I've really only heard a few speakers I can genuinely say I did not like at their price point, and quite often they were sold in Sears, Best Buy, or Radio Shack. Oh, and then there's Bose.

As annoying as RGA gets, constantly bashing every Paradigm except the Atom v.3 (which is identical to v.2 other than production date from what I've heard), you have to respect that he's heard a bunch of Paradigm stuff, and decided against it.

I'm almost ready to ask for a rule requiring no more "this vs. that" threads...they always lead to flame wars between owners, non-owners, and brand-bashers. I'm not sure if this is really adding any value anymore...