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Hmmmm... no I must have missed part of that. I remember Steve having issues with one of the amps in his EP800, what issue did you have? Did you have a bad driver as well?

As far as I'm concerned the Factory Outlet is a lie!!! I looked carefully over all of my speakers (all purchased through the factory outlet), and I think I came across one rediculously minor flaw in the finish on one of my QS8's. The rest of the speakers all looked perfectly fine, no imperfections that I could find at all! But hey, if they want to give me a 15% discount on these spotless speakers, I'm game!

My memory's getting a little foggy, so we'll see what I can remember. My drivers were fine except one of them had a scratch, which I decided I cared enough about to have replaced. There was minor cosmetic damage on other parts, too. Plus, one of the volume knobs had been bent. New enclosure, new driver, new amp. I tried swapping out the amp, but even though I thought I followed the directions precisely, the amp decided to work, then make some disturbing sounds, then not stop making the disturbing sounds. I can't recall with enough clarity what it sounded like. I just remember it sounded very wrong and very loud. Anyway, my confidence was gone, so I decided to have them send two completely new subs. Thankfully, the new ones arrived in pristine condition due to new packing procedures, but it was a long time coming. It was agonizing since I had to wait out the whole preorder thing only to have problems which made a couple of delays before I could really enjoy my system. Even so, it was all worthwhile, but I hope I can avoid ordeals like that in the future.

I agree. I think Axiom is running a “bait and switch.” You order B-stock and they ship you A-stock.

I have ordered 10 factory outlet speakers and never found anything wrong with them out of the box. Now once I got my hands on them that changed. I do think that Axiom does ship factory seconds when they have them, but I’m convinced that when they don’t have any B-stock they ship you A-stock rather than keeping you waiting to long. If not they have insanely strict QC and awesome inspectors. I inspect airplanes for a living so if I could find anything wrong with my speakers then Axiom’s inspectors are really good.

Planes crash

Ummmmmmmmmm... BIRD STRIKE!

This is precicely what I was thinking. Which sounds like good business to me. I expecially thought that when they said EP800's were available through the Factory Outlet. I mean such a new speaker simply can't have enough of a production run to be available through the Factory Outlet that soon. Plus they called me to verify if it was vertical or horizontal because they wanted to make sure they knew what kind of speaker they were "making for me"....

Like I said, I'm not mad at them!

I have noticed that too that Axioms quality control is outstanding. Besides some of the kinks that have to get worked out with the 800 , you rarely hear of any problems and if there are they get solved quickly. I would bet their quality control standards/oversight are much better than a lot of other ID companies due to the fact that their manufacturing and assembly process is not done completely overseas. From some of the pictures I have seen of their testing equipment from the factory in Canada it is state of the art.

Bastards!! I knew it was too good to be true.

Yeah I was all set to live with a huge blemmish on one of my M80's with the finish on the other one possibly peeling right off. But no, instead I have these absolutely perfect speakers staring at me all day long. How on earth am I supposed to brag about what a deal I got on them to my friends now?

"B-Stock? What ever dude, come on tell us how much you really spent on them"!

Oy vey!

Shhhhhhh! We don’t talk about that.

Actually if you knew the sort of crap that really happens you might never want to fly.


Pilot error!

Damm college boys!