Paradigm Persona 5F Carbon Black Gloss

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Persona 5F - Passive Floorstanding Loudspeaker, with Tree 7” Bass Drivers

Designed, engineered, and Completely Crafted in Canada, Persona celebrates the technological abilities of Paradigm engineering, untamed. Its exceptional craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail makes a bold, beautiful statement. No other speaker in this class can match the performance innovation of Persona.

Precision components and superior materials, including Persona’s exclusive Truextent® Beryllium tweeter and mid-range driver system, allow Persona 5F to deliver unprecedented transparency and dynamic performance levels with a slightly smaller footprint.

Specifications

• DESIGN: 5-driver, 3 way floorstanding bass reflex
• FREQUENCY RESPONSE ON-AXIS: +/- 2dB from 45Hz - 45kHz
• 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 DRIVER. Three 7" (178 mm) high-excursion X-PAL™ drivers, overmolded Active Ridge Technology (ART™) surrounds, SHOCK-MOUNT™ Isolation Mounting System, 1.5" high-temp tandem voice coil
• SENSITIVITY ROOM / ANECHOIC: 93 dB / 90 dB
• IMPEDANCE: Compatible with 8 ohms
• FINISHES: High Gloss: Vanta Black, Harmony White Metallic Gloss: Aria Blue, Sonic Silver
• WEIGHT: 95 lbs. (43 kg)
• DIMENSIONS HXWXD: 46.5" × 9.5" × 16.875" (118.5cm × 24.1cm × 42.7cm)
• LOW FREQUENCY EXTENSION23Hz
• CROSSOVER: 3rd order electro-acoustic at 2.4 kHz (tweeter/mid), 3rd order @ 450 Hz
• FREQUENCY RESPONSE 30° OFF-AXIS: +/- 2dB from 45Hz - 20kHz
• SUITABLE AMPLIFIER POWER RANGE: 15 - 500 watts
• MAXIMUM INPUT POWER: 300 Watts

Driver Materials - 99.9% Pure Beryllium

One of the keys to Persona’s luxury and value is our use of Beryllium, the absolute best diaphragm material, typically found only in speakers costing considerably more. Persona uses Truextent® Pure Beryllium that is specially formulated to be exponentially stiffer and significantly lighter than other premium diaphragm materials. It enables superior transient response and virtual transparency, with vanishingly low audible coloration.

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. Because of its use in only the finest (and most expensive) audio equipment, it has retained a certain “cult” status.

Precise control of the manufacturing process produces Beryllium with a highly uniform grain structure. This material is many times more rigid and 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.

Tandem Beryllium drivers reveal the full range of high performance.

Paradigm’s Persona is the only loudspeaker in its class to achieve this level of performance using Beryllium material for both midrange and tweeter drivers. Every model in the Persona Series features 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.