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(More customer reviews)This review is for the Axiom M80 V2 towers, which is the latest model from Axiom.
I've had these speakers for about 10 days now. I am totally amazed at the sound quality of these speakers. I've been in the market for new speakers to replace my old Pioneer CS-99A speakers for well over a year now, checking Circuit City, Best Buy, and a few REAL audiophile stores in northern California. I listened to speakers ranging in price from about $1500 to $3000 a pair. I also read many audiophie magazine reviews of verious speaker systems, and have visited literally dozens of websites for audiophiles. One thing became abundantly clear. Every magazine review about these speakers had nothing but praise for them, most are shocked that these speakers are (as they said) "inexpensive". As high end speaker systems go, these are at the lower end of the price scale. I was VERY worried about purchasing any speakers without seeing them and, most importantly, listening to them. Well, I took a chance and ordered the "front end" (for now)of my new home theater speaker system... two M80 V2 speakers for left and right... and a VP 150 V2 center channel speaker from Axiom's custom color shop (12% over the base price) in cinnamon Beech with black grille. It took about three weeks before they built my set. Once shipped (from Ontario Provence in Canada) it took about eight days to arrive here in California. Upon arrival, I set them up right away! I hooked them up to my new Yamaha RX-V3800 and ran the calibration program on my reciever to match the speaker response to my living room's acoustical properties. I WAS BLOWN AWAY! Fabulous sound and VERY deep and VERY tight, clean bass response!! No boominess whatsoever!! Great imaging across the soundstage! I never dreamed that the bass could be so clean and deep from a pair of 6.5" woofer drivers in each cabinet!! My Pioneer CS-99A speakers each had a 15" woofer and yet these Axioms probably go at least 3/4 of an octave lower in frequency! And have a lot less distortion. I then went back to the same "custom" store to listen again to a pair of speakers costing almost $3000 a pair... with my blu-ray DVD in hand. I listened... sounded comparable to my system. Then, while listening, I wandered a little around the listening room and found that the salesman had kicked in a Velodyne subwoofer to supplement the bass! I have no subwoofer at home yet! I definately made the right decision! One word of warning for the inexperienced. These towers have an impedence of 4 ohms. Before you get them, make sure your amplifier or receiver can provide sufficient current to drive these speakers at your normal listening volume. The vast majority of speakers made for average home use are 8 ohms in impedence
I plan on getting the rest of the Axiom home theater speaker system (a pair of QS8 quadpolar surround speakers and their Epic 500 500 watt powered subwoofer system later on this year!!
All in all, I am VERY happy with my purchse
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