Home Cinema Choice 201
‘your ears will know the difference between the Millenia package and the cheaper competition’
score: Best Buy
Reviewed by Adam Rayner
On the MilleniaOne Design:
‘First off, the tweeters in the small MilleniaOne boxes are no compromise. They’re as sexy as if they had been in a full-size enclosure – the same 1-inch satin-anodised Aluminium dome S-PAL used elsewhere in this Reference line.
The Ferrite on the back of the piston below this tweeter is as big as the cone assembly itself, and the box has an internal port tube that is gas flowed-flared at the end inside. Acoustic miniaturisation at work!’
On the MilleniaSub Design:
‘Meanwhile, the drivers in the squashed-flat subwoofer are like sawn-off shotguns, truncated in design and with motor structures reconfigured to work in the space and a diaphragm to cope with it all on the front of each bipolar driver.’
On the Performance:
‘I played some music with a nugget of prejudice in my heart that I was about to be underwhelmed by some titchy enclosures and a poncy designer product with no heart.
But my preconceptions came crashing down about my ears, for the Paradigm chaps have cleverly squeezed a quart into a pint pot.’
Adam continues:
‘The sound was rich and detailed, with that synergy you get when all the surrounding channels are served by an identical enclosure.’
Opinion:
‘Easy with music and hard-hitting on explosions from the sub, this is a real option for space-strapped fans of cinema sound.’