Paradigm Founder 40B
Diffusore da libreria a 2 vie, bass reflex, 1 woofer/midrange da 152mm a lunga escursione con membrana in AL-MAG(TM) e lente acustica perforata con allineamento di fase PPA(TM) e sistema di montaggio Shock- Mount(TM), 1 tweeter da 25mm con cupola ceramica ALMAC( TM) e guida d’onda sferica OSW(TM). Predisposta per bi-wiring, potenza 15-150W, 8ohm, 92dB, 69-23KHz in asse. Finiture: laccato nero, Noce, Ciliegio o Noce Nero. Cad.
Precisione. Controllo. Dinamica.
Questi sono i pilastri su cui è stata costruita la Founder Series.
Ogni tanto arriva qualcosa di speciale che cambia le regole. Il mix perfetto di tecnologia, design e prestazioni. All’inizio dello sviluppo di Founder, sapevamo una cosa, quando l’arte abbraccia la scienza, tutto è possibile, e abbiamo superato le nostre più rosee aspettative.
Founder non è un normale altoparlante. Ogni componente, grande e piccolo, è stato esaminato nei minimi dettagli. Ogni componente è stato accuratamente studiato, progettato e ingegnerizzato, esclusivamente per Founder’s. Nuove tecnologie brevettate sono state sviluppate per la piattaforma acustica. La nuova piattaforma del cabinet non è solo un design straordinario, la sua forma unica e il rinforzo strutturale integrato offrono prestazioni acustiche che non possono essere eguagliate dalle tradizionali scatole quadrate. Non tralasciando nessun elemento, Founder’s è molto di più della somma delle sue parti.
Durante il nostro esaustivo processo di ricerca, progettazione e ingegnerizzazione, abbiamo esaminato attentamente e attentamente il modo in cui i diffusori interagiscono con il loro ambiente. L’interno della casa contemporanea presenta sfide progettuali che sono diventate ancora più importanti nell’ultimo decennio. Pietra, vetro e legno sono diventati i materiali preferiti e dominano i concetti aperti. Il design di Founder si è evoluto con questa tendenza ed è perfettamente adatto per offrire le massime prestazioni in stanze che metterebbero alla prova i diffusori dal design tradizionale. Se ti piacciono i film e la musica in uno spazio di ascolto più tradizionale, o se la tua casa è dalle pagine di Architectural Digest, puoi essere certo che Founder suonerà bene come sembra.
Quando diciamo “precisione” intendiamo la sfumatura, i dettagli e il realismo che si ottengono quando un oratore “fa bene”. La serie Founder include molti nuovi progressi nel design, nei materiali e nell’ingegneria per fornire livelli di prestazioni che definiscono la classe.
Driver ad alta frequenza in alluminio magnesio ceramica (AL-MAC™).
Any high-performance speaker driver (in this case, the tweeter) must be both very strong (to prevent distortion), and very light (to be agile, responsive, and accurate). This quest of design and engineering has led the industry to try many different exotic materials. Some of them found practical application and many did not. AL-MAC is our unique blend of Aluminum, Magnesium, and Ceramic materials; each of which contribute to the end goal of greater accuracy and realism. Their special properties contribute to the final product which is not only strong and lightweight, but embodies a natural anti-resonance to ensure the tweeter doesn’t just sound good “on paper” but truly sounds incredible in the real world. Cutting edge technology, with real benefits, in practical applications – this is what the Founder Series is all about.
Aluminum Magnesium (AL-MAG™) Midrange Driver
Similar to the goals we had in mind when developing the AL-MAC tweeter, AL-MAG was conceived to bring the same elevated level of performance to the area where our ears are the most sensitive, the midrange. If you have ever read a speaker review, the midrange typically gets a lot of attention, and rightly so. By nature, human hearing places an emphasis on things like voices so that we know when we’re interacting with someone familiar. Think about how instantly recognizable your favorite recording artist or actor’s voice sounds. Our goal here was to have the midrange driver sound as realistic as possible. After all, isn’t that why you have a nice audio system? To make it sound like, “you are there?” With AL-MAG technology, Founder series comes another step closer.
Driver dei bassi Unibody CARBON-X ad altissima escursione
La base del nostro ascolto inizia con le frequenze più basse. Alla ricerca della massima chiarezza, abbiamo sviluppato una nuova tecnologia, driver dei bassi ad alte prestazioni da utilizzare nei modelli da pavimento più grandi della serie Founder. Questi driver utilizzano una costruzione a cono monopezzo per una maggiore resistenza, specialmente a volumi più elevati, con la massa più bassa possibile per garantire che ogni dettaglio possa essere ascoltato chiaramente. Combina questo con le esclusive tecnologie ART Surround e Shock-Mount di Paradigm e otterrai un driver dei bassi dettagliato e potente, come dovrebbe essere.
Racchiudere un’incredibile tecnologia in un altoparlante non significa nulla se i vantaggi non raggiungono le tue orecchie. Affrontando ogni componente, i nostri ingegneri si sono assicurati che tu potessi ascoltare i risultati del loro duro lavoro in qualsiasi ambiente.
Oblate Spherical Waveguide (OSW™)
The rooms where we live and listen have changed dramatically over the years. And while home interiors have evolved; many speaker technologies have not kept pace. We believe that speakers should be a natural extension of your room’s look and feel, while also providing a noticeable and real-world performance gain. Enter the Oblate Spherical Waveguide (OSW™) tweeter waveguide, only from Paradigm. The OSW™ helps Founder Series Loudspeakers cope with the challenge presented by modern-day environments, which are larger, more open, and full of reflective surfaces. OSW™ technology utilizes a precise, natural geometry to help focus the tweeter output where it matters, the listening area. As you move to the sides of the listening area, tweeter output gradually decreases, avoiding performance-robbing room reflections. Decreased output at the periphery of the room means that sound will not disrupt others that may be in earshot but wish to focus their attention elsewhere. Coupled with a larger, more powerful magnet/motor structure with greater efficiency and lower distortion, OSW™ gives you better sound where you want it, and less distracting sound where you don’t. Real solutions for real life.
Perforated Phase-Aligning (PPA™) Lens
Perforated Phase Aligning (PPA™) Lens technology is a perfect example of form meeting function. Not only are the crafted metal parts beautiful to look at, but they protect the driver cone and provide a substantial performance benefit. For added levels of realism, the PPA™ lens works to ensure that all frequencies arrive at the listener’s ears at the same time. This means that everything sounds more realistic from the lowest bass, up to the most delicate details. Founder’s floorstanding models also receive this treatment on their midrange drivers helping to project the sound more predictably at a distance. That makes them ideal for listening from farther away without losing sound quality and detail to the room.
Cascade-Fusion Bracing
The first thing you see on a speaker should be the last thing you hear: the cabinet. Founder Series’ cabinets are not only beautiful and unique to the eye, but their design enhances performance. The more rigid and strong a cabinet is, the less resonance and vibration it produces, which invariably improves the sound. The Cascade-Fusion bracing inside the Founder Series’ faceted cabinets is engineered to both increase rigidity and break up any standing waves generated by the high output bass drivers. The inherent strength of our unique geometric cabinet also helps distribute energy across a larger surface area providing even greater strength and support than is possible with traditional square cabinet designs. This ultra-rigid construction gives the drivers a neutral platform to play from, resulting in tighter bass, greater clarity, and more precise accuracy. These beautiful cabinets are “seen and not heard”.
Advanced Shock-Mount™ System
With Founder series, every detail matters. While all the technologies are something you can hear the benefits of, some are more focused on what you don’t hear: distortion. The Shock Mount system is one such special technology that is all about invisibility, both visual and sonic. While we’ve made our drivers the “Stars of the Show”, accompanying technology and innovation ensures that all their benefits reach your ears. Something we’re very proud of is the new Advanced Shock Mount system which is specifically designed to control vibration and resonance between the midrange and bass drivers and the cabinet. By mechanically decoupling these drivers from the specially designed and braced enclosure, these performance robbing vibrations are unable to transfer between the drivers and cabinet, or between the cabinet and the drivers. Without these resonances, all drivers are left free to deliver pure, unaltered sound with no audible distortion. We also applied this principle to the enclosure’s feet. Shock Mount Feet serve to decouple the speaker cabinet from the floor further controlling and eliminating the harmful effects of extraneous vibration. The feet can even be adjusted from above, without moving or tipping the cabinet making sure you get a perfectly level footing on any surface. Interchangeable hardware is included for both carpet and hardwood floors so that no matter what, you are hearing all the performance you paid for.
Anthem Room Correction (ARC™)
We mentioned earlier that rooms have changed dramatically over the years, yet speakers have not kept pace with the evolution of our living spaces. This is not just a bold claim, we can prove it! Using our world-class room correction system, Anthem Room Correction or ARC, we have collected thousands of data points that paint a clear picture of a room’s impact on the sound of your speakers. There is a reason that singing in the shower sounds different than in a living room; the same voice in a different room equals a different sound. The latest version of ARC, ARC Genesis, is an incredibly powerful piece of software that measures exactly what your speakers are doing in your room and tunes them so any harmful effects from your room’s acoustics are all but eliminated. ARC Genesis is a tailor-made solution that controls the parts of the room that aren’t helping, while keeping the parts that are, leaving you with a cleaner, more accurate sound.
Dettaglio, chiarezza, accuratezza, fedeltà: queste sono parole spesso usate per indicare la qualità del suono, ma che dire della quantità? Ricreare un’esibizione dal vivo richiede dinamiche o la capacità di ricreare suoni silenziosi, suoni forti e tutto il resto. Diamo un’occhiata a come la Founder Series ricrea le dinamiche più ampie e potenti.
Aumento dell’output utilizzabile diminuendo la distorsione
All Founder’s technologies, from the drivers to the feet and everything in between, are engineered to reduce distortion and provide the most accurate sound possible. Studies have shown that listeners are more tolerant of high output levels when distortion is lower. This essentially proves that it’s the “noise” in the sound that bothers us, not necessarily the volume. For those that like it loud, Founder Series is full of technology that lowers distortion and raises the usable volume output. If you enjoy cranking it up, even just occasionally, Founder is an ideal solution, providing more natural, accurate, and pleasing sound not just at lower volumes but also when it’s time to rock out. Better sound all the time, this is the way.
High Output, High-Efficiency Components
There is a famous quote that says, “Power is Nothing Without Control” and we couldn’t agree more. That’s why Paradigm designs speakers that sound clean, controlled, and detailed at any volume. We do this by making sure all driver components are designed for maximum power handling and output. If they can handle high output, everything else is a walk in the park. The voice coil and magnet structure are “where the rubber meets the road” as far as dynamics are concerned. These are the two critical components that actually move a speaker cone back and forth to produce sound. The Founder Series is designed with high power density magnets, high excursion cone surrounds, and multi-layered voice coils. Even the drivers’ cooling is addressed in order to keep everything composed even during the most demanding musical passages or intense action scenes. These parts are painstakingly engineered not only to handle more power but also to maintain strong control over the driver to further lower distortion and raise the maximum usable output. After all, if a speaker doesn’t sound good while playing loud, then it really can’t play loud. In addition to designing the components for high output playback, we also paid attention to efficiency. In this case, that means packing as much performance as possible into a smaller space. Traditional wisdom says there is “no replacement for displacement” so to make a speaker play louder, it needs to be bigger. While it is true that large speakers generally handle higher volumes better than small ones, there is another solution: technology. Paradigm engineers came up with a way to increase the amount of usable cone area while fitting it into the same physical space. When manufacturers list woofer sizes (5.25”, 6.5” etc.) they usually measure across the frame of the woofer, not just the usable cone area. This can vary greatly from brand to brand. With our exclusive “Vertical Mounting System”, Founder Series provides a more usable cone area in its 5.5”, 6”, 7” and 8” woofers than do competing designs advertising “larger” sizes. More output and less bulk can only be a good thing. Isn’t innovation wonderful?
Bi-Amp capable + Hybrid Design
All models in the Founder series can be Bi-amped or Bi-wired. That means two channels of amplification can be run to a single speaker. This not only provides a more direct connection to the components inside the speaker but raises the amount of power available to it. Taking it a step further, the Founder 120H includes an internal 1000-watt amplifier that powers the bass drivers. With this amp doing the heavy lifting, your amplifier is free to handle the mid and high frequencies with far less effort. This hybrid design not only improves the maximum output of the speaker but also allows us to fit this incredible performance into a smaller cabinet that’s designed as an integrated system. The 120H’s powerful amplifier can also take advantage of our award-winning ARC Genesis room correction system for reference level accuracy regardless of the challenges presented by the room. Since ARC Genesis is part of the internal amp’s control system, it can be used with any brand of electronics you wish to connect.
Il tweeter del Fondatore è una cupola in alluminio magnesio ceramica (AL-MAC™) da 1″ (25 mm) con una guida d’onda sferica oblata (OSW™) proprietaria e una lente PPA™ (Perforated Phase-Aligning).
Bellissime finiture di qualità premium
Gli armadi della serie Founder sono offerti in una varietà di bellissime finiture di alta qualità: Walnut e Black Walnut hanno una finitura satinata liscia con distintive figure in legno. I nostri esclusivi Midnight Cherry e Piano Black presentano una lussuosa finitura lucida lucidata a mano.
AVANZATO Sistema Shock-Mount™
I driver per midrange e bassi della serie Founder sono disaccoppiati meccanicamente dal deflettore anteriore dal nostro sistema di montaggio di isolamento avanzato SHOCK-MOUNT™. Questo speciale hardware di montaggio utilizza una sospensione in elastomero per impedire qualsiasi trasferimento di vibrazioni dal driver al cabinet e dal cabinet al driver. Eliminando la risonanza, il conducente è libero di riprodurre il suono in modo puro ed efficiente senza distorsioni udibili e con la massima chiarezza.
I rinforzi Cascade-Fusion all’interno degli armadi sfaccettati della serie Founder aumentano la rigidità e interrompono le onde stazionarie a bassa frequenza. Ciò offre bassi molto più stretti con maggiore chiarezza e precisione. Tutti i rinforzi sono ampiamente rinforzati, rendendo l’armadio un monolite più forte della somma delle sue parti. La forza intrinseca del profilo geometrico dell’armadio distribuisce i punti di carico su un’area più ampia dell’armadio, fornendo un supporto e una rigidità maggiori rispetto a quelli ottenibili con la tradizionale geometria quadrata dell’armadio.
Fondatore 120H mostrato
Orgogliosamente realizzato in Canada
La serie Founder è completamente progettata, ingegnerizzata e costruita presso il nostro stabilimento di produzione all’avanguardia appena fuori Toronto, in Canada. È realizzato da persone che amano l’audio eccezionale (proprio come te). Dai componenti e materiali scelti a mano, appositamente progettati, alla lavorazione precisa dei cabinet non risonanti con le loro bellissime finiture di alta qualità, la serie Founder è davvero costruita a mano per le prestazioni. Certo, potremmo dire “Made in Canada” o “Prodotto in Canada”. Ma crediamo che costruire altoparlanti sia un’arte. Tutti in Paradigm condividono la passione per la creazione di altoparlanti, ed è da questa intensa passione che “Crafted in Canada” è nato con orgoglio.
Collaborato con l’NRC
Paradigm collabora con l’NRC canadese di fama mondiale nella ricerca in corso per rivelare la vera natura del suono e dell’udito umano. I risultati influenzano le specifiche di progettazione e prestazioni, risultando in un’esperienza di ascolto unica e realistica, supportata da una solida scienza.
SPECIFICHE TECNICHE Paradigm Founder 40B:
PROGETTO | Enclosure con porta per montaggio su supporto a 2 vie, 2 driver |
INCROCIO | Elettroacustica di 2° ordine a 1.6kHz (tweeter/midbass) |
RISPOSTA IN FREQUENZA IN ASSE | ±2 dB da 69 Hz a 23 kHz |
DRIVER AD ALTA FREQUENZA | Cupola in ceramica AL-MAC™ da 1″ (25 mm) con guida d’onda sferoidale oblata (OSW™) e lente tweeter perforata ad allineamento di fase (PPA™), ferro-fluido smorzato/raffreddato |
DRIVER DI FREQUENZA MEDIA/BASSA | Cono AL-MAG™ ad altissima escursione da 6″ (152 mm) con lente PPA™ (Phase-Aligning) perforata, tecnologia Gen3 Active Ridge (ART™) con sistema di montaggio verticale, isolamento SHOCKMOUNT™ avanzato e un bobina mobile multistrato temp con formatore Apical™ ventilato |
ESTENSIONE A BASSA FREQUENZA | 41Hz (DIN) |
CAMERA DI SENSIBILITÀ / ANECOICA | 92 dB/89 dB |
RISPOSTA IN FREQUENZA 30° FUORI ASSE | ±2 dB da 69 Hz a 20 kHz |
GAMMA DI POTENZA DELL’AMPLIFICATORE ADATTA | 15 – 150 watt |
MASSIMA POTENZA IN INGRESSO | 120 watt |
IMPEDENZA | Compatibile con 8 ohm |
DIMENSIONI AXLXP | 14,5″ x 7,8″ x 12,8″ (36,8 cm x 19,7 cm x 32 cm) |
PESO | 25 libbre (11,3 kg) ciascuno |
FINITURE | Piano Black, Black Walnut, Midnight Cherry, Walnut |