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I just purchased these speakers and was asking any information or opinions. I am using them in my theater room and they sound great. Is this a vintage speaker product made by Axiom ? I can't find a way to post photos. They are floor speakers 38" x 10" 12" and say Epic Sound 80 on them. Black in color.
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Axiom became a direct-to-consumer company in 2000, and their claim-to-fame were great prices shipped anywhere, a credible return policy, and a design philosophy of neutral loudspeaker sound using National Research Council of Canada (NRCC) based research.
I vaguely remembered the home theater packages changed as speaker models were updated, but these are some early web archives of the Epic 80 specifications.
This is a snapshot from 2001:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010617124658/http://axiomaudio.com/180htp.html
Here's a snapshot from 2002:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020609131313/http://www.axiomaudio.com/epic80.html
They're still a great home theater package even by today's standards. They would have been competitive with Paradigm's Signature series, Energy's Veritas series, PSB's Stratus, and Angstrom's Modular series.
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The old VP150. Wow! Check out those CTS subs. I have a down-firing Yammy I picked up for $70 and I absolutely love it!
Check out the M0 and M1. The M1 was the Totem Dreamcatcher killer. The M0 became the M0.5 (audiobytes).
Damn. The M40. Dreamy. The only Axiom I don't have. Maybe I'll ask to get a pair made. Ebony. Dreamy!
Look at those itsy bitsy centers!
Oh hell look at the QS2. If I fart in its general direction, it would disintegrate.
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Doesn’t look very Axiom to me … Does it say Axiom anywhere on them … think these may be a brand “Epic Sound” … anyone else have an opinion …
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It doesn't look Axiom to me either. I understand the confusion, it's hard to differentiate between Acoustic Energy, Acoustic Profiles, or Acoustic Research. My skillset in finding counterfeits doesn't apply here, I'm just not seeing "Rollex" or "Real reather" labels. 
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No, does not say Axiom anywhere on them. Searching Epic speakers I think brought me to the Axiom web site
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Those aren't Axiom.
And they weren't made by a speaker manufacturer. WTF is "normal impedance", frequency response of +/-20% and sensitivity of +/- 3dB?
House of the Rising Sone
Out in the mid or far field
Linearity and mid-woofers are over-rated
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If they sound good, that's all that matters!
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Linearity and mid-woofers are over-rated
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Those aren't Axiom.
And they weren't made by a speaker manufacturer. WTF is "normal impedance", frequency response of +/-20% and sensitivity of +/- 3dB? Somebody manufactured them …. Best guess is they were created for an Audio dealer “Epic Audio” or “Epic Sound” (forgot the exact name which came up). The funky spec’s are interesting … somebody was trying … The reason Axiom popped up is because they have a home theater speaker bundle called the “Epic80”
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