Paradigm Persona SUB Active Subwoofer

Persona™ is a showcase of vanguard materials and Paradigm’s most advanced audio technologies, all entirely Crafted in Canada.

The evolution of luxury is a heritage of high performance and value.

Engineered to “take on the persona” of your audio performance, each speaker virtually disappears behind an unprecedented level of realism and transparency. Whether you’re passionate about classic two-channel stereo, or an enveloping multichannel home theatre system, Persona’s combination of innovation, performance and elegance introduces luxury in an indulgent new class of loudspeaker.

The Persona Sub – A Powered Subwoofer with Six 8” Bass Drivers

The Paradigm Persona Sub is specially designed to match the aesthetics of the Persona Series, and to deliver a wallop of deep bass effects.

Six 8-inch woofers, featuring durable overmoulded surrounds, are radially aligned in Paradigm’s signature hexagonal Vibration- Cancelling Design Architecture enclosure. Powered by a 1700W Ultra-Class-D amplifier (capable of 3400W dynamic peaks), and an array of Paradigm bass enhancements like advanced DSP, efficient venting and superior power supply switching, this sub adds depth, clarity and bass precision to your Persona audio system. Achieve well-blended musical bass down to an astonishing 12Hz. Use two or more for a truly moving audio experience!

Over Three Decades of Innovation.

Elegantly Shaped Cabinet

Designed, engineered and Crafted in Canada, this heavy duty, non-resonant cabinet is an intricate system of rigid enclosures, braced and damped to defeat vibrations and internal standing waves. Offered in a variety of beautiful finishes, its presence makes a forceful statement, but its performance remains utterly transparent.

Seven Layer HDF Construction

Construction of the beautifully curved and completely inert enclosures begins with seven layers of HDF wood composite material and Viscoelastic adhesive placed in a custom press. The enclosures are treated with radio-frequency (RF) energy to accelerate the curing process, which takes almost a week to complete. The result is a strong, constrained layered damped enclosure that’s the perfect acoustical foundation from which to build upon.

Active Ridge Technology (ART™) Surrounds

Paradigm’s patented† Active Ridge Technology (ART™) surrounds, made in-house and overmolded directly onto each cone, achieve greater excursion for a 3dB gain in distortion-free output (50% greater) compared to drivers with standard surrounds. Crafted from audiophile-grade injection-molded thermoplastic elastomer, ART surrounds are more durable and reliable, for a lifetime of superior sound.

X-PAL™ Woofer Drivers

X-PAL pure-aluminium cones blend lightweight stiffness with high consistency for a greater degree of accuracy and smooth, uncoloured frequency response. Combined with ART surrounds, these woofers produce truly huge bass with no threat of flexing or distortion.

Crafted in Canada

All products that carry the Crafted in Canada logo are completely designed, engineered, and built at Paradigm’s manufacturing facility just outside of Toronto, Canada.

Sure, it might be easier to say “Made in Canada,” or “Manufactured in Canada,” but building speakers is an art. Everyone at Paradigm shares a passion for crafting speakers, and it’s from this intense passion where Crafted in Canada was born.

State-Of-The-Art Canadian Manufacturing

Paradigm’s state-of-the-art facility gives us total control over the whole manufacturing process, from cabinet manufacturing and finishing, precision injection moulding, to driver, crossover and voice coil assembly. Paradigm do all the CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machining of our production parts, prototyping elements and tooling. Finally, Persona is assembled with end-of-line testing that exceeds the audio industry’s tightest tolerances.

Hands-On Quality

This incredible manufacturing space, and the people who work here, have made Paradigm the premier large-scale driver manufacturer on the continent. And it is here that we still do hands-on design, and produce all the woofers and tweeters for Paradigm’s award-winning speaker systems.

Specifications

Design 6-driver, acoustic suspension hexagonal vibration cancelling subwoofer

Crossover Low pass crossover: Variable 35 Hz – 150 Hz; Bypass Option; variable 0-180 deg phase

Amplifier 1,700 W RMS (3,400 W Dynamic Peak)

Room Correction Anthem Room Correction – ARC™, with included calibrated microphone

Frequency Response

On-Axis +/- 2dB from 19Hz – 220Hz (by pass option)

Frequency Response

30° Off-Axis +/- 2dB from 19Hz – 220Hz (by pass option)

Low Frequency Driver Six 8″ (203mm) high-excursion X-PAL™ drivers, overmolded Active Ridge Technology (ART™) surrounds, 1-1/2″ (38mm) four-layer long-excursion voice coils, high-temperature composite Nomex® formers, advanced spiders, 9.2-lb (4.16 kg) hard ferrite magnet / motor structure, AVS™ die-cast heatsink chassis

Low Frequency Extension 12Hz

Sensitivity

Room / Anechoic 100 mV (mono) / 100 mV (mono)

Impedance RCA: 10k ohms; XLR: 20k ohms

Finishes High Gloss: Vanta Black, Harmony White

Metallic Gloss: Aria Blue, Sonic Silver

Weight 118 lbs. (53.6 kg)

Dimensions

HxWxD 20.5″ × 20.25″ × 18.875″

(52.5cm × 51.2cm × 48cm)

Specifications are subject to change without notice.