Paradigm Monitor 9/Monitor Center 3/Monitor Surround 1/ Sub 10 5.1 Home Theater System

Design

4-driver, 2-1/2-way bass reflex, quasi-3rd-order resistive port, floorstanding model

Crossover

3rd-order electro-acoustic at 2.0 kHz, 2nd-order electro-acoustic at 700 Hz (lower bass drivers)

Frequency Response   On-Axis

±2dB from 46 Hz - 22 kHz

Frequency Response   30° Off-Axis

±2dB from 46 Hz - 18 kHz

High Frequency Driver

25-mm (1 in) S-PAL™ dome tweeter, ferro-fluid cooled and damped

Mid/Bass Frequency Driver

140-mm (5-1/2 in) S-PAL™ cone, 25-mm (1 in) high-temperature voice-coil, oversize ceramic / ferrite magnets, GRIP™ chassis

Low Frequency Driver

Two 140-mm (5-1/2 in) carbon-infused polypropylene cones, 25-mm (1 in) high-temperature voice-coils, oversize ceramic / ferrite magnets, GRIP™ chassis

Low Frequency Extension

31 Hz (DIN)

Sensitivity   Room / Anechoic

91 dB / 88 dB

Impedance

Compatible with 8 ohms

Suitable Amplifier Power Range

15 - 200 watts

Maximum Input Power

150 watts

Finishes

Black Ash, Heritage Cherry

Weight

42 lbs. (19.1 kg)

Dimensions   HxWxD

MONITOR CENTER 3

The Building Blocks: Monitor Drivers

Advanced S-Pal™ Satin-Anodized Pure-Aluminum Bass/Midrange Cones. First seen in our Paradigm Reference lineup, very high stiffness-to-mass ratio and outstanding internal damping. The result? Remarkable midrange clarity, superb extended bass response and freedom from unwanted resonances and distortions. In an affordable audio category – unbelieveable quality!

Advanced Carbon-Infused Injection-Molded Polypropylene Bass Cones. The high mineral content and injection-molding process have created a durable and rigid cone with affords us bragging rights for cone consistency and repeatability.

Advanced S-Pal™ Satin-Anodized Pure-AluminumDomes with powerful neodymium magnets and ferro-fluid cooling for increased power handling! Highs are more soaring and spacious, crystal clear and undiluted even at the higher bandwidths.

Wire Mesh Tweeter Guard and WaveGuide™. More Reference technology, ensuring a smooth, wide panorama of audiophile-quality sound. Wire mesh protection for the pure-aluminum tweeter. 

Sophisticated crossovers in an affordable audiophile product! Again, it’s almost unheard of: polypropylene film or bipolar electrolytic capacitors, air core and laminated core inductors, high-power resistors. Crossover topologies are first and second-order with corresponding acoustic slopes of second and third-order providing optimal bandwidth and seamless integration as drivers cross over.

Long-Travel Motor/Magnet Structures. Despite fewer drivers than in previous series’, floorstanding and center channel speakers actually plumb deeper. This is, in part, attributable to the advanced motor/magnet structures: high-temperature copper or aluminum wire voice coils (varies by model) wound on Kapton formers, oversized magnets with all components FEA-optimized.

Foam-Rubber Elastomer Surrounds. Reference Studio Series geometry!
Help achieve that play loud AND play deep effect by allowing longer, expertly controlled cone travel.

Baffled about Baffles? Don’t Be!

For those of you who are wondering. A baffle is the surface on which the speakers or drivers are mounted. It prevents the front and rear sound waves from interfering with each other causing sound cancellation, as well as to absorb sound energy, particularly problematic reflected sound. So a speaker baffle is pretty darn important.

The new Monitor Series 7 baffle is a work of art – worthy of a spot in the arches of a colosseum. It boasts …

A clean aesthetic, nothing to see but the the beautiful drivers, no screws or fasteners visible

• Thick and rigid ¾˝ MDF across the lineup
• FEA-optimized (including a stress analysis) to overcome the limitations of the physical materials.
• A modal frequency analysis allowed us to deliver the most resonance-, vibration- and coloration-free Monitor Series cabinet to date!
• Critically tuned to the rest of the cabinet

MONITOR SURROUND 1

The Building Blocks: Monitor Drivers

Advanced S-Pal™ Satin-Anodized Pure-Aluminum Bass/Midrange Cones. First seen in our Paradigm Reference lineup, very high stiffness-to-mass ratio and outstanding internal damping. The result? Remarkable midrange clarity, superb extended bass response and freedom from unwanted resonances and distortions. In an affordable audio category – unbelieveable quality!

Advanced S-Pal™ Satin-Anodized Pure-AluminumDomes with powerful neodymium magnets and ferro-fluid cooling for increased power handling! Highs are more soaring and spacious, crystal clear and undiluted even at the higher bandwidths.

Wire Mesh Tweeter Guard and WaveGuide™. More Reference technology, ensuring a smooth, wide panorama of audiophile-quality sound. Wire mesh protection for the pure-aluminum tweeter. 

Sophisticated crossovers in an affordable audiophile product! Again, it’s almost unheard of: polypropylene film or bipolar electrolytic capacitors, air core and laminated core inductors, high-power resistors. Crossover topologies are first and second-order with corresponding acoustic slopes of second and third-order providing optimal bandwidth and seamless integration as drivers cross over.

Long-Travel Motor/Magnet Structures. Despite fewer drivers than in previous series’, floorstanding and center channel speakers actually plumb deeper. This is, in part, attributable to the advanced motor/magnet structures: high-temperature copper or aluminum wire voice coils (varies by model) wound on Kapton formers, oversized magnets with all components FEA-optimized.

Foam-Rubber Elastomer Surrounds. Reference Studio Series geometry!
Help achieve that play loud AND play deep effect by allowing longer, expertly controlled cone travel.

Gladiators of Surround Technology

HIGH-PERFORMANCE LOW-PROFILE BI-DIRECTIONAL DESIGN

• Will appeal to the audiophile eager for an affordable high-end 5.1 music and home theater experience that includes Paradigm’s sought-after “surrounded-by-sound” experience in a dedicated high--performance surround speaker of compact dimensions.
• The low-profile is application-friendly: perfectly suited for today’s multi-purpose listening spaces.
• In recording studios, discrete multichannel mixing is the order of the day. Bi-directional in nature, the new coherent surround technology reproduces the surround experience exactly as the sound engineers envisioned. The speakers add size and dimension to the soundstage while enveloping you in non-localized sound.
• The bidirectional technology also ensures extreme placement flexibility! It is more forgiving in areas where room dimensions, characteristics and/or room configuration (or all of these!) may not be optimal for a music and home theater setup. In multi-use rooms where traditional surround speaker placement is neither possible or practical, Monitor Surrounds should be your first response.
• We call them surrounds, but of course, they’re also ideal as rear speakers in a 7.1 setup.

40" × 6.875" × 10.5"
(101.6cm × 17.5cm × 26.5cm)