If you’re looking to step up your home system’s performance, you might be thinking you’ll need to spend thousands to get to that next level. Luckily, Paradigm’s Premier line was built to rival speakers costing much more. The Premier 100B bookshelf speaker is the smallest entry in the series, and it offers nuanced, audiophile-grade sound backed by careful research.

• 1″ X-PAL pure aluminum dome tweeter with PPA (Perforated Phase-Aligning) lens
• 5-1/2″ carbon-infused polypropylene mid/woofer with high-excursion ART surround
• power handling: up to130 watts RMS
• sensitivity: 90 dB
• impedance: 8 ohms
• bass-reflex (ported) design with a rear-firing port