Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler CV's Subterranean Adventure

Charles, I am very glad to hear the phantom center works in your room. In mine, at 12 feet apart and 15 feet MLP, it doesn't work for movies even at the MLP. Music is a different story.

To qualify this, someone who has not heard a center channel would not object to the diffuse center imaging for movies coming from the actives. But when I use the 160, located directly below my screen, there is no mistake the sound comes from the actors' mouths. Otherwise, the sound is strangely detached from the actors.

I won't be able to convert any of my other speakers to a matching finish anytime soon, but I think even just my mains in real wood will make me happy. One bit of sad news is when I was recently re-routing some speaker wires, I knocked over an M5HP, and the very bottom of the rear of the speaker got dinged pretty good. Thankfully it was the back which I only ever see when disconnecting and reconnecting wires, but you can imagine the sinking feeling I had when it happened.

It seems to be better or worse, depending on the material, but I feel like I was getting a similar experience with the center. I figure if I feel it's lacking later on, then it's a good opportunity to get a center that's v4 (or v5 if it takes that long) in matching rosewood.

Charles, I really don't want to introduce doubts for you but I have to get this out. You have a v3 180. Try a v4 160. I think you're missing out.

Not in this round! I have to make my wallet feel like it's at least slightly respected.

I received 10 of the 11 boxes in the shipment, but unfortunately the one I'm waiting on is one of the LFRs. The one LFR that did arrive was missing the top and the bottom of the shipping box, and there is slight cosmetic damage to some of the edges. So that's disappointing. I emailed Axiom and told them I'm not sure I want to go through the hassle of getting it replaced, but I was reporting it now just in case. We'll see how the other one looks when it arrives.

I was also missing a set of cables to go from DSP to amp, I think. It should have been two sets of five cables, right? I got one set, but there are six cables. Red, white, blue, green, yellow, black.

In the meantime, I have stuff pulled out of the boxes and ready to hook up when I get the remaining pieces.

Brutal.
Here's hoping the rest of your shipment comes pristine. Cross continent shipment should be respected more.

Don't worry CV,

Probably customs pulled it to check for drugs ...
After all, somebody was pretty high considering how many binding posts they put on it. Might have to repack the stuffin' though ...

Oh man, sorry to hear that. I thought Axiom had come up with packaging that was for all intents and purposes courier-proof. They're probably hanging onto the second box until they can figure out how to get the end caps off that one as well

If the courier managed to get the end caps off I would not feel bad at all about asking Axiom to submit a claim and replace/rework the speaker. I probably wouldn't have bothered with smaller speakers but these are LFR's !

That said, if the damage was only on the bottom edges I probably wouldn't worry much about it either.

Hope it all gets worked out to your satisfaction, and congrats on the new speakers.

Hmmm...that explains my euphoric highs after snorting what I thought was polyfill.