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Not on the bottom, but on the rear of the speaker along the top edge, and then a little further down one side. At least I wouldn't normally see it. You're right, though, with them being LFRs and my first real wood veneer (the Rosewood is gorgeous), it feels wrong to have the slightest imperfection. I'll wait to hear what Debbie says, and also see how the other one fared, before I make up my mind. If they can file a claim and not be out any money, I'll probably do it. I wouldn't want them to be out any money after getting such a good deal on them.

Geez, Charles. I'm sorry to hear about all your troubles.

In the past some of the Axiom boxes I've received came with very loose straps. One came with 3 out of the 4 straps and a hole in the side (VP180). Have a feeling that the shipping guys use the straps to man handle those boxes. Bet the heavier and longer the item the more likely that a strap stretch and come off.

In any case I was lucky ... seems that you were not as fortunate ... and of course, as Murphy would have it, to a very expensive item ...

It continues! The second LFR showed up, and there was more significant damage than the first one, even though the shipping box had both its top and bottom. An edge toward the front on the top was banged up considerably, and one tweeter and one mid on the rear took a beating. So I forwarded those pictures as well.

In the meantime, I'm using one of the new ADA1500s to power the passive LFRs while the ADA1500 that's in my rack has been switched over to supply the M5HPs serving surround duty. The ADA1000 that was previously powering the M5s has nothing to do until I get an AV processor that can do the overhead channels.

Whew, I got a call from Debbie today, and they're going to put the order in for the missing cables, as well as make a new set of LFRs. Looking over the original order now, I see there were 5 interconnect cables for DSP to amp, then 1 for DSP to subwoofer, so that's where the sixth cable that confused me came from. I hadn't looked closely at that field, I suppose. But still, I'm pretty sure I filled out all fields, and I assumed they would know I needed x2 for those DSP-to-amp interconnects, since each speaker has its own DSP, but if I somehow did it wrong beyond the DSP-to-sub cables I didn't need, my apologies to Axiom.

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Axiom is really particular of the finish to my knowledge.
I got my M22\Heartland Maple through B stock took me months to find the blemish. Which turned out to be a little sliver missing on one of the front corners really minor.

Good to hear, although I'm sure that the larger courier companies keep some people on staff to sneak into your house after the damaged goods have been replaced and inflict further damage.

I had visions of some warehouse staffer holding the straps and giving each LFR a helicopter ride (spinning it around) as part of social distancing. The LFR's are just about the right height to keep a 2m safe zone.

Oh my gosh, Mr. Grunt! It's been too long!!!!

Oops, I hit the wrong and very old page. Sure miss you Mr. Grunt.

Ha ha, I need muscles like those.

I'm turning into a real thorn in Axiom's side.

My right passive LFR developed buzz/static in one of the front mids a couple of days ago whenever content is played. It annoyed me enough that I decided to go ahead and switch them out for the Actives with the cosmetic damage, since they're simply sitting here unboxed while I wait for the replacements to arrive. I got them positioned and hooked up, double-checking the connections as I went. I always run Audyssey first, even though I turn it off afterward, simply to set distances. Going through the setup, the EP800 made zero thumps. Having no output happened another time recently, and I ended up turning it off for a while, then turning it back on, and it worked again. My new ADA1500s and DSP are stacked on either side of the front EP800, so when I was starting to reach behind the EP800, I set one hand on the ADA1500's case to steady myself, and there was a very loud zap. Oh, no. After turning the sub back on, the setup was able to send thumps this time, but looking at the results, it gave the fronts a crossover of 200 Hz. I manually set it down to 40 and put on some music. Going around each speaker, I discovered the woofers on the front right speaker weren't doing anything, and neither were any of the drivers on the rear. After testing the different amp channels on different driver sets, it seems those three amp channels are in fact dead. Ouch.

I've already emailed Axiom, so we'll see what they say. In the meantime, I'm going to have some lopsided sound. I've switched to my older ADA1500 to power the right speaker, so I at least have the whole front of the speaker working.

I'm looking forward to when my whole system is at 100% again.