I'm not a huge fan of sub satellite combos in this price range - just personal taste. It's not really right to compare live to a system - the recordings simply are not the same - finding a speaker that get the tone or timbre of an instrument correct is one thing to play it loud enough is another and then to play several at once another again. A two way standmount and a sub becomes a three way with one less woofer. Many of them have no real deep bass just play certain bass frequencies louder. Mostly it depends on the sub - I always hear a hick-up with subs.

The best thing to do is compare in your price range - say a Monitor 5 and sub combo comes to $1500.00Cdn and compare that to $1500.00Cdn speakers. For $1500.00 to $2000.00 US - you can afford to move up from the Paradigms. And plenty of excellent used/demo speakers are abound which should be fairly full range and more coherent top to bottom than sub satelites can muster.

Enjoy your hunt either way you go.