Paradigm E80-IW Description
The Paradigm E80-IW is an innovative in-wall speaker designed to deliver exceptional sound quality while seamlessly integrating into your home’s aesthetic. Ideal for both music enthusiasts and home theater aficionados, the E80-IW combines advanced audio technology with elegant design, ensuring that it performs brilliantly without taking up valuable floor space.
Key Features
- In-Wall Design:
- Engineered for discreet installation, the E80-IW blends seamlessly into any room, preserving visual aesthetics while providing high-quality sound.
- Ideal for home theaters, living rooms, and multi-room audio setups.
- Driver Configuration:
- 8-Inch Aluminum Woofer:
- Provides powerful bass response and a full soundstage, delivering deep, impactful low frequencies.
- Rigid design minimizes distortion, ensuring clarity and precision in bass reproduction.
- 1-Inch Aluminum Dome Tweeter:
- Delivers crisp and clear high frequencies, enhancing detail in music and dialogue.
- Designed for smooth response and wide dispersion, allowing for a more immersive listening experience.
- 8-Inch Aluminum Woofer:
- Exceptional Frequency Response:
- Wide frequency range ensures that both low and high frequencies are reproduced accurately, making it suitable for various audio applications from music to movies.
- Customizable Installation:
- Features a paintable grille that allows homeowners to match the speaker to their wall color, ensuring a seamless and unobtrusive look.
- Designed for easy installation, making it suitable for both new construction and retrofit projects.
- High-Performance Sound:
- Paradigm’s proprietary technologies ensure superior sound quality, delivering a dynamic audio experience that rivals traditional bookshelf or floor-standing speakers.
- Designed to provide even sound distribution throughout the room, minimizing dead spots.
- Robust Build Quality:
- Constructed with high-quality materials to ensure durability and longevity.
- Engineered to reduce cabinet resonance, enhancing audio performance.
- Versatile Application:
- Perfect for home theater setups, multi-room audio systems, and even as part of a high-fidelity music system.
- Suitable for various genres of music and audio content, providing an immersive listening experience.
- Compatibility:
- Works well with a variety of receivers and amplifiers, making it easy to integrate into existing audio systems.
The Paradigm E80-IW speaker is an exceptional choice for those looking to enhance their audio experience without compromising on aesthetics. Its combination of advanced technology, versatile installation options, and superior sound quality make it a standout choice for any home audio setup.
Aluminum Magnesium Ceramic (AL-MAC™) Tweeter with Exclusive Perforated Phase-Aligning (PPA™) Tweeter Lens
AL-MAC™ is our unique blend of Aluminum, Magnesium, and Ceramic materials; each of which contribute to the end goal of greater accuracy and realism. Their special properties contribute to the final product which is not only strong and lightweight, but embodies a natural anti-resonance to ensure the tweeter doesn’t just sound good “on paper” but truly sounds incredible in the real world.
Aluminum Magnesium
(AL-MAG™) Cones
Advanced
Shock-Mount™ System
mechanically decouples the die-cast aluminum baskets from the specially formulate CARBON-X™ ingrained baffles reducing performance-robbing vibrations and resonance between the chassis and the acoustic platform. Without these resonances, all drivers are left free to deliver pure, unaltered sound with no audible distortion.
Oversized, 1.5” High-Power Handling Voice Coil
motor structure dramatically increases maximum output level and reduces power compression.
Patented† Active Ridge Technology (ART™) surrounds
made in-house and over-moulded directly onto each cone, achieve greater excursion for a 3dB gain in distortion-free output (50% greater) compared to drivers with standard surrounds. † US patents: D654,479S and 8,340,340B2.
Advanced Features for a Solid and Secure Installation
FEA-Optimized Ultra Rigid Cast-Aluminum Baskets feature integrated heat sinks for higher power handling, for better bass, better dynamics, and less power compression.
Integrated Acoustic Back-box Enclosure safeguards internal parts from debris while preventing added sound ‘spillage’ to adjacent rooms. It also ensures consistent and reliable performance from application to application. (CI Elite LCR models only)
Screen Compensation Mode ensures true acoustic transparency when placed behind micro-perforated projection screens. (CI Elite LCR models only)
Pocketed screw holes help to hold the drill steady, making installation a snap.
Premium-grade components include high-power rated resistors, capacitors and heavy gauge wire inductors.
Nickel-plated, spring loaded binding posts feature a larger wire hole to accept higher-gauge wire or banana plugs.
Bezel-Free Micro-Perf Grilles offer a clean aestetic from room-to-room.
Magnetically attached grilles: neodymium magnets hold grilles firmly in place.

Partnered with the NRC
Paradigm is partnered with Canada’s world-renowned NRC in ongoing research to reveal the true nature of sound and human hearing. Findings influence design and performance specs, resulting in a uniquely realistic listening experience, backed by sound science.