Paradigm has updated its popular Monitor Series to provide amazing performance with a contemporary new look, designed to blend with today’s lifestyle A/V equipment. The Monitor Series v.4 features high-performance film capacitors in an optimized high-current design that compliments the configuration and technology of Paradigm’s acclaimed PTD pure-titanium dome tweeter. The low-ESR nature of these film capacitors provides smoother, more transparent and detailed high-frequency performance, with great response across the audible spectrum, according to Paradigm. Output is said to remain smooth and linear without audible distortion.

In coordinated launch events in London and New York, Bowers & Wilkins has announced a new flagship 800 Series, due to be available worldwide from B&W’s authorized 800 Series dealers on January 15, 2005.

Meridian Audio announced the introduction of the DSP5200, which is the latest addition to Meridian’s DSP-based loudspeakers. The DSP5200 takes the appearance and design of Meridian’s DSP8000 and DSP7000, with many of the features of the DSP5200 being derived from the larger systems in the line.

Following Dynaudio’s tradition of “Special Edition” models, the Audience 72 SE is the latest “Special Edition” model following the company tradition set by loudspeakers such as the Contour 1.3 SE and Audience 52 SE models. The concept: take an existing, already successful Dynaudio model and develop it even further. Although physically the same dimensions as the standard Audience 72, the SE model has benefited from several performance enhancements.

Canton has introduced the first of a new line of slender, high performance aluminum loudspeakers designed to sonically and visually compliment modern flat-screen video displays. The Canton CD 300 series combines technology derived from the company's high-end Karat line of loudspeakers with the brushed aluminum lifestyle design of its popular CD 100 series. The current line consists of the CD 300 floor-standing tower speaker and the CD 360F, which includes the same driver configuration adapted for vertical or horizontal wall mounting. With their slender brushed-aluminum enclosures and silvery grills, these speakers create a very dramatic presence in a room, while delivering sound quality that will please the most demanding audiophiles according to Canton.