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Tristan's content isn't my cup of tea, but his video editing skills are impeccable. It might take me a few years to reach that level.

Social media platforms are very democratic; anyone with a smartphone and an internet connection can upload content that can reach billions.

On the other hand, they're also winner-takes-all contests, where there's a handful of winners in a vast sea of anonymous nobodies drowning in a sea of content noise. I called it an r-select environment in my sociology book, but it's better known generically as a Pareto distribution.

My brother and niece both have YouTube channels. My brother is a prolific traveller and does travel videos that reach a small following using nothing more than direct uploading from an iPhone. My workaholic niece (Morgan Ekroth) has turned hers into a business, I guess you can do that with 6 million Tik Tok and a million YT followers.

It’s temping but you need to really differentiate your self. Better info and more entertainment than the next guy. Also it has to be something you really enjoy because it is a non-stop job to get it up and running and that goes double if it goes anywhere …

Rick good to see another USAian stopping back in from the good ole days.

Oh look! All my friends are here! Good to see you all.

Yes, audio is a great hobby. I think discussion of general audio matters could liven up our site. I posted recently about a wrong road (uneconomical) taken in pursuit of audio nirvana. It's not an inexpensive hobby. That's what I loved about Axiom. My first pair of M3Tis cost about $275 and knocked my socks off. Now, they are almost $600. I know the value of the dollar has sure fallen hard in the last 3 years, but I sure wish Axiom could help with the price of entry level speakers with great sound quality. Maybe, they could also come out with a higher end line with some more advanced technology ... like separate chambers for tweeter, mids and bass woofers, some 8" drivers, or even, dare I say it, 12" drivers. Maybe even an Open Baffle speaker ... that should save on the cabinet costs and challenge Ian and Andrew with a new cross-over design.

Of course, we have the LFR series which are very interesting! Magnepan is coming out with a new speaker with external DSP and which will require separate amplification for highs, mids and lows. Sound familiar? Of course, their customers will have to find their own amps, unlike Axiom.

This site could have helped Axiom market their wonderful speakers. Dead don't help.

I know Axiom is busy with Bryston, Magnum Dynalab and who knows what other acquisitions are in the works. I hope Ian has the time and energy to come up with some new Axiom speakers which excite the audio community.

New and exciting speakers are interesting but changing the design for change sake is more marketing excitement then step forward audio wise.

The revolution in my mind is combining digital processing, room and psychoacoustics, with speaker placement. If that requires changes to the speaker design to get the air to move in the way needed then I’m all for it

From Soundstage Network's interview with Ian Coulquhoun, he hinted about future Axiom loudspeakers that would reach the market by the end of 2025.

It seems like Axiom will incorporate the same module technology that Bryston uses to switch between single amp, bi-amp, tri-amp, and active for their T10 series (he calls it a door). The LFR 1100 Active will stay the same; he's hinted many times that it's a loudspeaker stereo pair that doesn't lose double blind listening tests, and has the listening window and sound power composite curves controlled to within +/- 1.0 dB. Those SOTA stats would get you a direct radiating loudspeaker Olive score better than 7.5 before adding a sub.

He also talked about driver component variability as a consequence of manufacturing variance, something Floyd Toole also discussed in his talk at CIRMMT. Reading between the lines, Axiom and Bryston don't have that problem because they've invested in the quality control equipment, and other loudspeaker companies haven't. And that's part of what you're paying for with Axiom's elevated prices.

https://youtu.be/e9dZ5obGuQk?t=3074 (time cued)
https://youtu.be/zrpUDuUtxPM?t=3948 (time cued)

Finally, Ian mentioned that their design process uses DSP to design their target curves, and then clone that using analog crossovers. I suspect that the v.3 and v.4 iterations were a product of that process.

https://youtu.be/e9dZ5obGuQk?t=1888

That’s really interesting… initially that struck me as brilliant… but then I started wondering if it would that been more obvious if I designed crossovers … the active crossover thing has been going on for a while now especially in pro audio area. Why not get the target parameters digitally and build a non active solution from that.

I just listen to a bit of that part … think I’m going to have to listen to the whole interview now … damn … not enough hours in a day to keep up with all the stuff I want to keep up with … forget about doing anything real!