Paradigm Persona 9H

$74,999.00

Special Order Only! ETA 6 Weeks. Sold In Pairs

Persona® 9H, the flagship of the Persona Series, is the most advanced, highest-performing loudspeaker we have ever designed.

6-Driver, 3-1/2 Way Hybrid Floorstanding with Active Bass Acoustic Suspension.

“They may be big, expensive and undeniable heavy, but Paradigm’s Persona 9H speakers are outstanding in every respect, from the superb quality of build and finish to their scintillating sound. Don’t be fooled by that modest power requirement and seemingly benign impendence: partner them with a high-quality, high power amplifier, and prepare to be dazzled by a design fully justifying its flagship status.”
— Andrew Everard , Hi-Fi News & Record Review (UK)

99.9% Pure Beryllium

Can luxury be a value? We believe so. One of the keys to Persona’s luxury and value is our use of Beryllium. Beryllium is the absolute best diaphragm material, and Persona features Truextent® Pure Beryllium foil, specially formulated to be exponentially stiffer and significantly lighter than other premium diaphragm materials. It delivers superior transient response, virtually transparent performance, and vanishingly low audible coloration. Also, it’s a material usually found only in much more expensive speakers. Luxurious? Yes. But also a surprising performance value in Persona.

Beryllium: Welcome to the cult of high performance.

Beryllium is a rare chemical element (Be) with low mass, high tensile strength and high thermal stability. It is incredibly rigid and lightweight; everything an audio engineer desires in a speaker cone.

In fact, Beryllium has been used in the audio industry since the 1970s. But because of its use in only the finest (and most expensive) audio equipment, it has retained a certain “cult” status.

Precise control of the Truextent manufacturing process produces pure Beryllium foil with a highly uniform grain structure; this is many times stiffer, yet far less dense, than more common cone materials. In industry testing, our Beryllium cone material exhibits substantial improvements in durability, speed, and reduced interference. It can add more than an octave of distortion-free output.

In the Paradigm’s Persona, tandem matched Beryllium drivers reveal the full range of high performance. Persona is the only loudspeaker in its class to utilize Beryllium material for both midrange and tweeter drivers.

Every model in the Persona Series features dual Truextent Beryllium driver systems, and each model achieves a truly unexpected level of high-resolution detail, depth and dynamics thanks in part to rare, extraordinary Beryllium.

Proudly Crafted in Canada

The Persona Series is completely designed, engineered, and built at our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility just outside of Toronto, Canada. It’s made by people who love great audio (just like you). From the hand-chosen, specially engineered components and materials, to the precise workmanship of the non-resonant cabinets with their beautiful premium-grade finishes, Persona is truly hand-built for performance.

Sure, we could say “Made in Canada,” or “Manufactured in Canada.” But we believe that building loudspeakers is an art. Everyone at Paradigm shares a passion for crafting speakers, and it’s from this intense passion that “Crafted in Canada” was proudly born.

Partnered with the NRC

Paradigm is partnered with Canada’s world-renowned NRC in ongoing research to reveal the true nature of sound and human hearing. Findings influence design and performance specs, resulting in a uniquely realistic listening experience, backed by sound science.

DESIGN 6-driver, 3-1/2 way hybrid floorstanding with active bass acoustic suspension
CROSSOVER 3rd order electro-acoustic at 2.4 kHz (tweeter/mid), 3rd order @ 400 Hz (mid/front bass), 2nd order @ 200 Hz (rear bass)
AMPLIFIER Each woofer pair is powered by a separate DSP-controlled 700 W RMS amplifier for a total of 1,400 W RMS (2,800 W Dynamic Peak)
FREQUENCY RESPONSE ON-AXIS ±2dB from 19 Hz – 45 kHz
ROOM CORRECTION Anthem Room Correction – ARC™, with included calibrated microphone
HIGH FREQUENCY DRIVER 1″ (25mm) Truextent® Beryllium dome, ferro-fluid damped / cooled, Perforated Phase-Aligning (PPA™) Tweeter Lens, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) optimized pole piece assembly
MIDRANGE FREQUENCY DRIVER 7″ (178mm) Truextent® Beryllium driver with Inverse Differential Drive Neodymium motor, Perforated Phase-Aligning (PPA™) Lens, SHOCK-MOUNT™ Isolation Mounting System, 1.5″ high-temp voice coil
LOW FREQUENCY EXTENSION 15 Hz (DIN)
LOW FREQUENCY DRIVER Four 8-1/2″ (215 mm) ultra-high-excursion X-PAL™ drivers with Differential Drive motor, overmolded Active Ridge Technology (ART™) surrounds, SHOCK-MOUNT™ Isolation Mounting System, 1.5″ high-temp dual voice coil
SENSITIVITY ROOM / ANECHOIC 96 dB / 93 dB
FREQUENCY RESPONSE 30° OFF-AXIS ±2dB from 19 Hz – 20 kHz
SUITABLE AMPLIFIER POWER RANGE 15 – 500 watts
MAXIMUM INPUT POWER 400 watts
IMPEDANCE Compatible with 8 ohms
DIMENSIONS HXWXD 51.75″ × 11.875 × 20.5″ (132cm × 30 × 52cm)
WEIGHT 190 lbs. (86 kg)
FINISHES High Gloss: Vanta Black, Harmony White. Metallic Gloss: Aria Blue, Sonic Silver
SPIKE/INSERT THREAD (THREAD SIZE/THREADS PER INCH) 0.75″-16

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