Front Speakers ( ) reproduce dialog, sound effects and much of the music.
Center Speaker ( ) reproduces dialog, sound effects and music. It can
be placed on top of a TV (or behind a perforated screen in a front-projection
system). If used with a direct-view TV, this speaker must be magnetically
shielded to prevent picture interference.
Surround Speakers ( ) reproduce ambience and sound effects critical
to the full dimension of multichannel music and movies. Surround speakers
with a uniform reverberant soundfield and accurate full-bandwidth bass,
like Paradigm
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Reference ADP
™
speakers, work best.
Rear Speakers ( ) contribute dimensional size and realism. Here
also, Paradigm
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Reference ADP
™
speakers, with their uniform reverberant
soundfield and accurate full-bandwidth bass, work best.
Subwoofer ( ) handles deep bass, giving dynamic power to low-
frequency effects in movies and the bass content in music.
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Why Paradigm
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Reference ADP
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speakers WORK BEST for music and movies
MUSIC AND HOME THEATER … where do Surround and Rear speakers fit in?
ABOUT SURROUND/REAR SPEAKERS
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Movie theaters use multiple arrays of Surround/Rear speakers to keep
viewers from being distracted by the sound of any single one (Fig. a).
Conventional forward-radiating speakers cannot reproduce movie theater
surround sound in your home. If they are loud enough to blend with the
front speakers they draw attention to themselves. Turn them down so they
don’t distract you and they won’t blend with the fronts (Fig. b).
So how can you hear all of the glorious surround sound you’re supposed
to? With Paradigm
®
Reference ADP
™
reverberant soundfield Surround/Rear
speakers placed to the sides and/or rear of the listener (Figs. c, d & e).
Like movie theater surround speakers, Paradigm’s ADP
™
reverberant Surround/
Rear speakers envelop you in sound without drawing your attention away from
the movie you’re watching. They add size and dimension to the soundstage,
and ensure a seamless transition when sound and effects move from front
and center to side and rear speakers.
Our ADP
™
speakers are just as important for multichannel music. Their ability
to create a large, non-localized soundfield contributes multidimensional realism
to the reproduction of the original recording’s acoustic space.
The diffuse sound of Paradigm
®
Reference reverberant Surround/Rear
speakers turns your listening into a magical experience—they put the
“theater” in home theater and make music sound “live”!
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“It’s just like being at the movies, except the sound is a lot better.” – Nicholas Bedworth, The Perfect Vision on Paradigm
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Reference speakers
Fig. (b)
Forward-Radiating Surrounds
Fig. (c)
ADP
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Reverberant Surrounds
5.1 Configuration
Fig. (d)
ADP
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Reverberant
Surrounds and Rear
6.1 Configuration
Fig. (e)
ADP
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Reverberant
Surrounds and Rears
7.1 Configuration
Fig. (a)
Movie Theater Surrounds
