Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Axiom Mount failed, ruined large screen!

Wow, that sucks. Is the screen covered by contents insurance? I'm sure Axiom will take care of the speaker.

I'm a little surprised there is only one mounting point on the center.

and as usual, the timing of this is not good. I won't get into it but yeah, this sucks.

I think you might be right. There is something inside my speaker rattling loose now. I need to take back off see what it is.

I always felt that a threaded insert on an almost 22lb speaker (Is that a VP150?) was right at the limit. I am very sorry for your misfortune. As other have said, I would try home insurance....

I using the steel bracket for my q4's but nowhere does it state any weight restriction...are there any?

it's a vp150 and bracket says 40lbs

Problem is two things. MDF is too weak, little screw thingy is too small, and there really needs to be two mounting points

This is unfortunate and definately the first time someone has had such an issue since I've been on the forums. I'm sure that Axiom did lots of testing many years ago to design the bracket/inserts and test the capacity. MDF actually is totall fine for this application and used by most speaker manufacturers. Still, I would be interested to see what they tell you, have you contacted them yet?

When I mounted my VP150 over my screen, I did not trust the single attachment point. I ended up building a bracket out of red oak the width of the speaker. It is secured to the VP with the single threaded speaker insert. The mount is then attached to my wall with two Axiom metal brackets. No, I don’t have a picture to post, but can later if anyone wants. In short, there was no way I was going to trust that single mounting point without additional support.

I'm with you Michael, seems to me that mounting a speaker of this size from a single point with a medium size bolt is asking a lot. My instinct tells me that weight needs to be distributed over a larger area.

if there were two mounting points, all other issues would be irrelevant as the weight would distributed better. The irony of this happening now is that I had someone come to the house to hear my setup weekend, someone interested in Axiom that I bumped into one day, anyways we were talking about the center channel being where it was and all. In my setup you just do not hear the vp 150 very well when it was below screen, hence putting it above, but I said it hasn't moved since day one and ....poof now this.

I love my setup, I mean I love it and brag to others about axiom constantly. That being said I always had a concern about that center channel up high but could not avoid it. I always said that if there was a weak point in my setup in my setup, it wa that the center channel was not up to snuff with the surrounds. Guess I was wrong, the weak poimt was the 50cent insert holding th espeaker to the bracket. Oh well, stuff happens - there wasn't a mark on my speakers until today.