What Paragon taught Encore
High End Vienna, June 2026. The venue is loud with hundreds of systems all making their case at once. In room 1.32, under Jorma and Marten, two new series get their first airing.
Statement Encore and Origo Encore aren’t new ideas. They’re older ones, extended. Leif Olofsson spent years deciding what Paragon should be — eleven cryogenically treated conductors, a walnut shell, a sound with nothing added and nothing taken away. Encore asks what happens when that same conviction moves down the range, into systems that were never going to own the flagship, but deserve the same thinking.
Statement Encore inherits Paragon’s architecture almost directly. Origo Encore, finished in oak, carries the original Statement’s specification forward with refined materials. Neither is a simplification. Both are the same argument, made at a different point in the range.
“I wanted to understand how far that thinking could reach,” Leif says, standing beside the two series mounted alongside the rest of the range in the room.
Both series are available as loudspeaker, interconnect, and power cable in 2026.


