For a little while, I had them both, and I did an A/B comparison between them. They were pretty close sounding, but, even though it doesn't look it from the on-axis response alone, I would say that the Paradigm was a tad more neutral sounding. The Klipsch has slightly hotter treble sound. I would say the reason is the off-axis behavior, its wider and extremely flat with the Paradigms. The off-axis response is also very good with the Klipsch speakers, but not quite as uniform or as neutral. Both are great speakers, but you have to use more than on-axis response to compare them. If you did, yes, the Klipsch does look more neutral, but there is more to these speakers than just the on-axis response, it is not sufficient to completely characterize these or pretty much any other speaker.