Paradigm Monitor SE 3000F Floorstanding/Tower Speaker (Matte Black)

Perfect 👍

Great speakers are expensive, but we all WANT great speakers. These sound wonderful, especially for the price. My setup is primarily for a home theater for a 16x20 room (two Paradigm SE 3000F floor standing speakers, one Klipsch 504C center speaker, two Paradigm Monitor SE Atoms for surround sound and a SVS-PB 2000 subwoofer). I put a bit more money into the Klipsch 504C center speaker for clear voice tracks because of the home theater focus.I tried a few combination of speakers, but liked this setup best. It is well-balanced, clear without being harsh, has pretty good punch from both the SVS subwoofer and the Paradigm floor standing speakers, and does a good job filling the room without having to have the volume cranked up too much. I mated the speakers to a 110Wx7 channel Onkyo AV receiver and set it up as a 5.1. While I would have preferred a Denon AV unit for a number of reasons, they were not available at the time. The Onkyo unit was quite easy to set up, and with a few tweaks to speaker levels to balance to the room. The setup does a nice job of presenting quality sound to most all of the primary seating positions in the room. As a home theater setup, for the money, this system would be tough to beat.When I switch to music and put the AV unit in stereo mode, the sound is still quite good, though this setup shines best for home theater. If my primary use-case was music I would save a bit of money by purchasing a less expensive center channel speaker and would upgrade the subwoofer to the SB-3000 (or maybe PB-3000 if I still watched quite a few movies) and maybe even upgrade the floor-standing speakers to the Paradigm SE-6000f.All-in-all, I am very happy with the Paradigm SE 3000f. They are good enough for music and do an incredible job as part of a very nice home theater setup.

Although these are 'entry-level' speaker offerings from Paradigm, they sound terrific. I may never be able to buy Paradigm's Persona 9H speakers, but these SE 3000F speakers suite me just fine. I am very please with the quality of build and materials and best of all, THEY SOUND GREAT! If you are on a budget but still want quality 'high-fidelity' sound for well under <$1,000.00 a pair, you can't go wrong with these speakers. I am very happy with my purchase!

I listened to the 3000F's in two rooms, a living room, and a listening room. In a very large living room, sitting 6 feet away, the treble is bright, but to my ears, manageable. When moved into nearfield (75 inches away), I have never heard a speaker so ridiculously bright, it makes B&W seem neutral. I got a headache within minutes each time I listened to any song. The soundstage and imaging is also ridiculously bad, a regular speaking person could be 5 feet, before moving 8 feet into the air when doing a high note, or 2 feet when doing a low note. No doubt due to the fact that the speaker is not using an MTM design and is in the nearfield. I tried to fix this with extensive rake angle before I lost all imaging and cannot pinpoint sound anywhere even after multiple speaker repositions.In summary, this speaker is probably good if you're seated very far away, and this is one of the worst speakers in the nearfield.

I didn’t buy these off Amazon. I found a guy on Marketplace with 2 pair brand new. Rich guy and I don’t know the circumstances. I was looking for cheapo garage speakers and saw this! They are waay to good for the garage but that’s what I’m using it for. So after getting 2 pairs for $400! I sold one pair for $375 and kept the other pair. Paired with an old Luxman 2 channel I got for 5 bucks at a garage sale this is just a really impressive sounding system. Super punchy and detailed. Surprising the bass these put out and how loud they can get and keep composure.My house system has a retail price of around 15k and while it definitely sounds better it’s amazing how kinda close these guys come. In the summer I listen to this way more than my house system since I’m outside smoking meat and drinkin ;-).

I built a home theater system using Polk T50's from a big box store. I tried to like them for the cheap price/value, but returned them for the Monitor SE6000's after extensive research. These are in a different league than the Polks and worth every penny for the upgrade in sound. These give off a beautiful sound stage - very wide and open with great clarity without being tiring to your ears. The mid-bass is tight and responsive. Two thumbs up!