I have an interesting note to make about the "live" sound of the Axioms.

When I visited my local AV store last week, the guy there was showing me their collection of Bryston A-series speakers. Among them they had the A-1s, which is akin to the Axiom M-100's, as I'm sure you all well know.

This guy loves to relate background stories to me about speakers/amps, etc. (case in point, he has many times talked to me about the NRC project which resulted in many Canadian speaker makers...).

But, coming back to my point, on this day he talked about James Tanner's quest to develop a speaker which could accurately reproduce the live music experience.

The guy at my AV shop said that the A-1's were, bar none, the best he had ever heard at achieving this (in his opinion, of course).

Knowing what we know about Bryston and Axiom working on these speakers together, perhaps it is not accidental that the Axioms also reflect this trait?