Audition of Paradigm Studio 100 speakers
Hi Sean,
Today I visited gemini traders for the audition in connaught place delhi.
I went there for the audition for Pradigm studio 100 speakers. I got the audition for B&W and Paradigm speakers with Rotel 1550 amplifier.
B&W speakers- approx 60k
Paradigm studio 100-- 1.9 lakh
Rotel 1550 --1.45 lakh
I visited there to see the performance of high end amplifiers and speakers because before this audition I had only read the lots of positive reviews about these highend products.
I personally have woodstock speakers and amplifiers and amp had stopped working. So I was looking for a good amplifier.
So the audition started and I sat on a chair. First it started with B&W speakers and that was with some instrumental music.
I told the person to increase some bass level and I met with the first SHOCK.
He told me that the bass can not be increased as it is inbuit and fixed level and can not be increased.
it was ridicolous for me that an amplifier costing 1.45 lakh does not have bass level even to change.
Another bad thing was the amplifier had inbuilt cd player and the process of inserting the cd was really a hell. There was no cd tray to come out, just a wide slot of allmost the same size of cd in which cd goes.
If some how the cd gets stuck inside there is no option to take that out until you open the complete unit. HIGHLY PATHETIC.
B&W speakers were nothing more than ordinary sound. Nothing pleasing was there and nothing was there which will force you to spend a hell lot of hard earned money.
ThenI told the person to change the speakers to Paradigm STUDIO100, one of the highly reputed and VERY HIGH END, MADE IN USA BRAND.
I thought by changing to such a high end speakers will definately give me the whole new extraordinary experience .
Again the person played some songs and nothing was more than a little better. Again a BIG SHOCK I met with. I told him to change the song as he kept on saying that sound may depend on the type of songs. But nothing changed. Then the right channel of the speaker started pruducing harsh sounds like khar khar. Right channel was badly sounding since the begining on low volumes and when the person raised the volume, harshness became more clear. I told him to change with a hindi song cd--JISM and the song was- Jaadu hai nasha hai. The person only kept on raising the volume till 63 or 65 and believe me there was nothing for what one would give lakhs of money.
May God keep the people away from these highend syatems.
Person was also observing all the harsh sounds since the begining and after few minutes he stood up and started checking the right channel by himself.
I did not tell him that I have been observing that since beginning.
He removed the cd cover from the top of the speaker , then removed the remote however all these activities never imapct the speakers performance.
Then he started gripping one of the speakers of right channel but nothing happened.
Afterfew minutes of the shocking audition I told him to stop the songs because I was highly dissapointed with the performance of the amp and speakers.
Even an audio costing 30000- 50000 rs can perform far better and can produce smooth and pleasing sound and fill the room with lot of satisfaction.
I am telling you all that I still have woodstock speakers and sounds beyond the imagination. Even I do not have the words to describe the listening experience in my room. It satisfies the thirst of the ears.Bass is so deep , so hefty and silent, strong and punchy, that the attack of the bass could be felt from 10 feet long distance.
I am very lucky that I have those speakers and not this above mentioned high end crap.
In B&W and Paradigm , if there was something exceptional and outstanding in comparison with normal and ordinary,--- IT WAS THE PRICE and nothing else.
On low volume both the speakers and Rotel amplifier sounded like big crap and a garbage.
Today I came out lot of illusions of all these HIGHEND and MADE IN USA kind of things which have been INTENTIONALLY THROWN ON THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE GOT LOT OF MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS and are far away from the reality.
