ortho1121
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Can anyone give me a review of Axiom speakers? Using them for on-wall speakers for home theater.
http://www.soundandvision.com/content/review-clash-minispeakers#o7hFZXo7IfLeaBxd.97Craig Chase said:I have compared the Axiom M3's to several ID company offerings, as well as against a pair of PSB Imagine B monitors ($1100 per pair), and the Axiom M3's are at least comparable, if not superior, to the other speakers against which they were tested. All listening was done blind, and level matched. This includes several people who have also auditioned speakers at my place.
One word of caution - you will get a lot of advice against Axiom from people who never heard them.
They are a good speaker. I had a chance to compare them to a pair of B&W Diamond bookshelves (much more expensive) a few years back and was quite impressed by how they sounded. The soundstage, where things are placed in space and quite important in home theater, was amazing and much better than the B&W.ortho1121 said:Can anyone give me a review of Axiom speakers? Using them for on-wall speakers for home theater.
The M3 also has a midbass hump in its response around 100hrz and Axiom has actually confirmed this (Alan Loft) to give more bass impression. So that result right there is the exact opposite of a linear response speaker and one that colors the sound.
"What surprised us, though, is the treble, which in the face of the woofer's prodigious output seemed rather dialed-down. While this didn't hinder the M3v3's ability to deliver a solid center image, it robbed the speaker of some of its stereo soundstage. "It seems like you're looking into the performance space, rather than actually being in the performance space,"