I thought the Paradigms were pretty good, too. But I only heard the smaller ones--no larger ones avail in the shop. Go for the larger models and I'll bet you get good response. A long time ago Advent made one of the best speakers you could buy--to this day they sound fantastic. But now it's just a name, not the old company. This is true of AR as well.

Henry Kloss invented the modern speaker--he was working for AR and came up with the legendary AR-3a's. Then he went to Advent and designed The Advent Speaker and The Advent Small Speaker. He left them for KLH (guess what the K stood for). His last design was the original Tivoli table radio with AMAZING base response and tuning.

You have to listen to speakers and you have to remember that theywill be heard OUTSIDE!