Quote Originally Posted by meephis
Ok Why is the Paradigm Signature Servo $3200 American, and the Servo 15 is only like $1500 American? Did I miss something? The specs are almost identicle! WHY!!!??? Ok there must be some reason. Or, is this just another marketing ploy from Paradigm to get another couple hundred bucks out of people by slapping a different label on it? Ok I'm pretty confused can someone help me here?
Check again, the new version of the Servo 15 came out not too long ago and it now lists for $2,200. The previous version cost $1,500, and the new Servo 15 includes some major changes over the old version. The Servo 15 now uses the same amp and basic driver that comes with the Signature Servo. The most notable difference between the two is that the Signature comes with a real wood veneer and has that high gloss wood available as well.

With the Signature and Studio series main speakers, the main difference was that that Signature series has the real wood cabinets and uses highly modified versions of the Studio series drivers. The speakers have similar profiles, but the Signature series costs a lot more. In my comparison between the Studio 20 v.3 and the Signature S2, I did not think that the difference in sound quality was worth the extra money. Then again that's less a criticism of the S2 than high praise for the Studio 20 v.3, which I feel is one of the best speakers that I've heard in its price range.

Given that the price differential between the subwoofer versions is not nearly as huge, I'm not even sure if the Signature Servo uses a modified version of the Servo 15's driver. It might just be the cabinetry that's different. If you can detect a difference in listening comparisons, then it's up to you whether the differences are worth the price.

I've read that customers were not buying the Signature Servo when they purchased the Signature speakers. They were opting for the Servo 15 instead, so rather than lower the price of the Signature Servo, Paradigm opted to transplant the amp and driver from the Signature Servo and bump up the price by $700. You wind up with a comparably high performance sub, but it costs a lot more than before. The $1,500 price point that the previous Servo 15 occupied is now taken up by the Seismic models.