Power & Performance

• Design: 2-driver, 2-way ported bookshelf / standmount enclosure
• Crossover: 2nd-order electro-acoustic at 1.1 kHz
• Frequency Response (On-Axis): +/- 3 dB from 58 Hz – 23 kHz
• Frequency Response (30° Off-Axis): +/- 3 dB from 58 Hz – 20 kHz
• Sensitivity (Room / Anechoic): 91 dB / 88 dB
• Impedance: Compatible with 8 Ohms
• Low Frequency Extension: 36 Hz (DIN)
• Suitable Amplifier Power Range: 15 – 130 Watts
• Maximum Input Power: 80 Watts
• Performance: The Paradigm Premier 220B V2 is the high-output flagship bookshelf monitor of the updated Premier V2 Series. Engineered for listeners who want the presence, weight, and authority of a floorstanding tower without giving up valuable floor space, the 220B v2 steps up significantly over the smaller 120B v2. By deploying a larger, ultra-high-excursion 6-inch AL-MAG™ driver inside an expanded, high-volume enclosure, it achieves a remarkable 36 Hz low-frequency extension. It is the definitive choice for medium-sized listening rooms, high-performance stereo setups, or primary front-stage channels in a stealth home theater, providing a wide, deeply focused 3D soundstage with immense dynamic confidence.

Audio Features & Drivers

• 1-inch AL-MAC™ Ceramic Dome Tweeter: This advanced composite high-frequency driver blends aluminum, magnesium, and ceramic into an ultra-rigid, low-mass dome. By moving the structural breakup modes completely outside the threshold of human hearing, it delivers effortless high-frequency details with zero hardness.
• Oblate Spheroid Waveguide (OSW™): The tweeter is countersunk inside an optimized horn profile. The OSW™ controls horizontal sound directivity, widening the treble listening plane while preventing side-wall reflections from coloring the primary audio image.
• Patented PPA™ (Perforated Phase-Aligning) Tweeter Lens: Serving as a distinct protective metallic mesh and a specialized mechanical acoustic phase plug. It blocks out-of-phase frequencies from blurring the stereo field, greatly improving off-axis consistency.
• 6-inch Ultra-High-Excursion AL-MAG™ Mid/Bass Driver: Built from an advanced aluminum-magnesium alloy, this larger low-mass cone features a 1-inch high-temp multi-layered voice coil wound on a ventilated Apical™ former. It provides exceptionally clean vocal separation and rapid transient control across the mid-bass register.
• Gen3 ART™ (Active Ridge Technology) Surrounds: The 6-inch driver features overmolded thermoplastic elastomer surrounds utilizing a specialized Vertical Mounting System. This pleated edge allows for significantly greater linear cone throw, yielding a 3 dB gain in clean headroom and a 50% drop in overall distortion.
• High-Velocity Rear Bass Porting: The back of the cabinet features a contoured, flared bass-reflex port optimized to leverage rear room boundaries, allowing the 6-inch cone to vent cleanly down to 36 Hz without inducing air turbulence or "chuffing."

Streaming & Connectivity

• Premium 5-Way Binding Posts: Equipped with heavy-duty, gold-plated terminal blocks built to accept high-gauge bare wire, spade connectors, or audiophile banana plugs, securing a permanent, low-resistance signal path.
• Seamless Ecosystem Voice Matching: Sharing the exact driver materials and acoustic voicing as other Premier V2 architectures—such as the 620C v2 center and 820F v2 floorstanding towers—the 220B v2 serves as an ideal timbre-matched rear or side surround channel in an elite multi-channel layout.
• High-Efficiency Integration: With an impressive room sensitivity of 91 dB, these bookshelf monitors pair easily with premium multi-channel AV receivers, though they unlock their true low-end punch when backed by high-current integrated amplifiers.
• Anthem Room Correction Synergy: Developed to communicate flawlessly alongside Anthem® electronics, allowing Anthem Room Correction (ARC®) filters to digitally smooth out problematic wall boundaries, desktop reflections, or shelving obstacles.

Comfort & Dimensions

• Tapered Architectural Design: The striking wooden cabinet features non-parallel side walls that curve toward the rear. This geometry scatters internal standing waves and back-reflections to eliminate box-induced coloration.
• Furniture-Grade Finishes: Handcrafted to luxury standards and available in modern premium finishes including Piano Black, Walnut, and Black Walnut to coordinate cleanly with contemporary residential interiors.
• Overall Dimensions: 14.6” (37.1cm) Height x 8.3” (21.1cm) Width x 12.9” (32.8cm) Depth.
• Unit Weight: 20.1 lbs (9.1 kg) each — A very heavy, substantial weight for a bookshelf monitor, reflecting the dense internal bracing matrices and massive AL-MAG™ motor structures.
• Sonically Transparent Magnetic Grilles: Includes low-profile fabric grilles that fasten cleanly over the front baffle plane via hidden high-strength magnets, ensuring a clean aesthetic when removed to show off the intricate metallic PPA™ lenses.

Design & Build

• Heavy-Duty MDF Framework: Constructed with a dense 3/4-inch (19mm) MDF core shell reinforced with strategically placed internal acoustic framework matrices to prevent cabinet walls from flexing under high output.
• Diffraction-Reducing Front Baffle: Enhanced with a solid 1-inch (25mm) thick front face plane to dampen physical driver energy and dramatically smooth outward sound wave radiation.
• Prototyped and Conceived in Canada: Designed, modeled, and engineered utilizing the advanced acoustic testing labs at Paradigm's main facility in Ontario, Canada.
• NRC Research Legacy: Directly influenced by foundational psychoacoustic sound mapping parameters performed alongside the National Research Council (NRC), aligning the speaker with strict parameters for tonal neutral balance.

Paradigm speakers are warranted to be and remain free of manufacturing and/or material defects for a period of outlined below from the date of original purchase. Within the time period specified, repair, replacement or adjustment of parts for manufacturing and/or material defects will be free of charge to the original owner. Thermal or mechanical abuse/misuse is not covered under warranty.

The warranty period on Paradigm speakers is as follows:

• Bookshelf, floorstanding, in-wall & in-ceiling speakers — five (5) years
• Powered Subwoofers — three (3) years
• Outdoor Rock speakers — five (5) years
• Stylus Outdoor speakers — two (2) years
• Powered Speakers — one (1) year
• SHIFT Series products — one (1) year

Warranty begins on date of purchase from Paradigm or an Authorized Paradigm Dealer.

This warranty applies only to purchases made from authorized Paradigm dealers in Canada and the United States. For warranty terms, conditions and support elsewhere, please contact the authorized Paradigm distributor in the country where you made your purchase. Warranty outside Canada and the US is established and provided by our authorized distributors around the world.

Limitations:

• Warranty begins on date of original retail purchase from an Authorized Paradigm® Dealer only. It is not transferable;
• Warranty applies to product in normal home use only. If product is subjected to any of the conditions outlined in the next section, warranty is void;
• Warranty does not apply if the product is used in professional or commercial applications.

Warranty is Void if:

• The product has been abused (intentionally or accidentally);
• The product has been used in conjunction with unsuitable or faulty equipment;
• The product has been subjected to damaging signals, derangement in transport, mechanical damage or any abnormal conditions;
• The product (including cabinet) has been tampered with or damaged by an unauthorized service facility;
• The serial number has been removed or defaced.

Owner Responsibilities:

• Provide normal/reasonable operating care and maintenance;
• Provide or pay for transportation charges for product to service facility;
• Provide proof of purchase (your sales receipt given at time of purchase from your Authorized Paradigm® Dealer must be retained for proof-of purchase date).

Should servicing be required, contact your nearest Authorized Paradigm® Dealer, Paradigm Electronics Inc. or Import Distributor (outside the U.S. and Canada) to arrange, bring in or ship prepaid, any defective unit. Paradigm Electronics Inc. reserves the right to improve the design of any product without assuming any obligation to modify any product previously manufactured. This warranty is in lieu of all other warranties expressed or implied, of merchantability, fitness for any particular purpose and may not be extended or enlarged by anyone. In no event shall Paradigm Electronics Inc., their agents or representatives be responsible for any incidental or consequential damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so this exclusion may not apply to you.

Retain your sales receipt for proof of warranty term and proof of purchase.