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Originally Posted by Sir Terrence

Axiom and Paradigm have a known reputation for producing speakers that are good with music and movies, and represent a good value/performance ratio. I would go for them before any bipolar speaker, or highly reflective speaker. As a music lover, I would not choose any speaker that could not do both well, and almost every Paradigm speaker I have ever heard over the years could do both very well.

My best advice is to go out and listen to as many of Paradigm and Axiom speakers as you can. I would also listen to any floor standing def tech tower speakers from the Mythos line as well since they are not a bipolar speaker.

Listen, audition and decide. My order would be a tie between Paradigm and Axiom as both of these have benefited from the research of Dr Floyd Toole. Then the Mythos line of floor standing towers next.

Hope that helps, and happy searching.

Sir Terrence,

I'm glad you speak well of the paradigms. Back when I was a starving grad student with a bad habit of wasting hard earned T.A. money, I was big on CDs and LDs. I spent what was then a god awful amount of money on a pair of Paradigm monitor 7 series speakers. Years layer, gainfully employed I bought two more pairs of identical speaker and setup a 5 speaker config because I was hooked on dolby pro logic and wanted identical sound from all sources. Used to rotate the center channel with the spare every 3 months. Stopped that years ago.

My questions :

(1) Are the Paradigm monitor 7 speakers considered wide dispersion or controlled dispersion speakers?

(2) I am considering new speakers to upgrade to, what would be comparable to these and still be priced reasonably. (At various price levels)

(3) I am also trying to clean up a main floor 2nd HT in a 20'x20' room used as an occasional game room and sometime theatre. Current 5.1 speakers are entry level Jamo, but I'm considering in wall (behind drywall) hidden speakers. Is this a bad idea or is this worth considering? Note this room has hardwood floor and is open to the rest of the house, meaning the acoustic properties are not that great, are there any in wall speakers that will sound reasonable or is that just not possible?