Paradigm Cinema 100 CT Pro Reviews

There are an increasing number of very competent, well finished compact sub/sat systems on the market, each having to eke out it's own niche, if it's not to submerge beneath a sea of the 'also very good'. On the face of it, the Paradigm Cinema 100 CT looks par for the course, with all the increasingly usual features. Glossy finish, multiple mounting options, etc., are all present and correct. It doesn't even have the headline grabbing monster subwoofer power that Paradigm - above all - are renowned for and clearly, other people have managed to do smaller for the price, or less. That would be to entirely miss the opportunity that Paradigm have provided here. If you can get away with slightly larger satellites, if you can get away with a subwoofer that doesn't need to slide behind your sofa, then here is a package that actually delivers a sound that feels like the floorstanding loudspeakers that you've already decided you can't shoe horn into your room. The scale of sound this package delivers is epic, relative to the real estate it asks you to give up to accommodate it. It's not going to give you a spotlight on musical nuance, or studio recording techniques like £1k of studio monitor, but neither will any other 5.1 package for the money, any more than that pair of monitors will deliver sub 30Hz performance across five main channels.