Paradigm Persona 3F

Description

The Persona 3F is a three-way, 4 driver design that includes two-7” bass drivers, a 1” Truextent® Beryllium dome tweeter and uniquely, a 7″ Truextent® Beryllium mid-range/bass driver. Although many special features define the Persona line, the use of Beryllium is a highlight, but not new to Paradigm – the newness is the use of Beryllium in the midrange driver.

It’s highly unusual to compliment the Beryllium tweeter, rare in itself, with a Beryllium mid-range driver as Paradigm has done. Beryllium provides rigidity and stiffness greater than that of aluminum or titanium and therefore reduces the coloration and potential distortion while increasing the high-frequency output. But it’s expensive, produced specifically and to spec for Paradigm by Materion, metals manufacturers based in California.

Paradigm further developed for each Beryllium driver, their Perforated Phase-Aligning Lens, a beautiful spider-web design, which varies slightly from their past Studio line. The lens was designed to “smoothen and widen out dispersion”.

Specification

• DESIGN: 4-driver, 3 way floorstanding bass reflex

• CROSSOVER: 3rd order electro-acoustic at 2.4 kHz(tweeter/mid), 3rd order @ 450 Hz

• FREQUENCY RESPONSE ON-AXIS+/- : 2dB from 48Hz - 45kHz

• LOW-FREQUENCY EXTENSION: 24Hz

• SENSITIVITY ROOM / ANECHOIC: 92 dB / 89 dB

• FREQUENCY RESPONSE:  30° OFF-AXIS+/- 2dB from 48Hz - 20kHz

• SUITABLE AMPLIFIER POWER RANGE: 15 - 400 watts

• MAXIMUM INPUT POWER: 200 Watts

• IMPEDANCE: Compatible with 8 ohms

• DIMENSIONS:  HXWXD44.125" × 9.5" × 16.875" (112.6cm × 24.1cm × 42.7cm)

• WEIGHT: 75 lbs. (34 kg)