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VP180 Center Channel
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VP180 Center Channel
It is truly the best center I have ever heard in my life!
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Overview

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Best For: Medium to large living rooms, great rooms

Power Required: Home theater receiver with 40 to 120 watts per channel

Placement: Stand mounting, wall mounting or shelf placement above or below screen

Related Product: Architectural In-Wall On-Wall Version - W150

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  • Available in Four Standard Finishes, 16 Custom Synthetic Finishes, and many Real Wood Finishes


It was an idea borne of Axiom fans on the message boards . . . a monster center channel capable of delivering spine-tingling clarity in voices, regardless of the size of room or distance from the screen.  It had to be big, it had to be loud, but most importantly, it had to be accurate.

Enter the new VP180 center channel speaker.  This 56-lb beast thrilled our most critical listeners, Alan Lofft and Ian Colquhoun.  Alan said: "As an especially critical center-channel listener, I'm excited by the music and dialogue accuracy of the new VP180."

You've never heard or seen anything like this speaker before: a no-compromise center channel that will thrill you with powerful dynamics, bass extension and musical transparency. The VP180 unleashes a magical performance, offering the truest presentation of a movie or music soundtrack, exactly as the engineers had intended.

This center is the perfect mate to Axiom's M60 or M80 tower speakers, yet can be coupled with all speakers to deliver the level of high-fidelity and transparency your system deserves.

The VP180 uses six drivers: two 6.5-inch aluminum-cone woofers, two 5.25-inch aluminum midranges, and two 1-inch titanium dome tweeters in a horizontal array arrived at after months of listening tests to music and dialogue program sources, on- and off-axis.  All this is contained within a ported, bass-reflex cabinet, with a 4-ohm impedance.

Remember, this center is not for the faint of stand!  At 56 pounds / 26kg, you'll need to either floor-mount it, taking advantage of its tapered edges to angle the dialogue at the listeners, or you'll need a very sturdy stand, such as our new dual-custom aluminum stand.

Supercharge your home theater with the VP180 - audition it in your home theater with our 30-day in-home trial. Includes a five-year warranty and free shipping!

Recommended with: M60, M80

 

Professional Reviews

Industry Reviews of our Center Channels

"Dialogue through the VP150 center channel was superb. Voices sounded natural, delineated, and unrestrained."
-- Thomas Garcia, AudioRevolution.com

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"The triple 5.25" aluminum woofers deliver a stiff and accurate sound, reproducing crisp, clean dialogue and effects information. This is as clean and balanced a center channel as I've ever listened to at this price range."
-- Clint DeBoer, Audioholics.com

"The VP-150 center channel sounded very natural: male and female voices were unrestrained and blended perfectly with the rest of the speakers in the system."
-- Ray Adkins, Audioholics.com

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Specs

Specifications

Specs VP180
Enclosure:
Triple Vortex / Reflex
Max Amp Power:
400 Watts
Min Amp Power:
10 Watts
Freq Resp +/-3dB (Hz):
34 Hz – 20 kHz
Frequency Graph
Freq Resp +3dB- 9dB (Hz):
25 Hz – 20kHz
Impedance (Ohms):
4 Ohms
Impedance Graph
SPL in Room1w/1m(dB):
95 dB
SPL Anechoic 1w/1m(dB):
91 dB
X-Over 150 Hz & 2.7 kHz
Tweeter:
Dual 1"
Woofer: Dual 5.25"
Sub Woofer: Dual 6.5"
Dimens. H W D (inches):
9.25" x 39.5 " x 17 "
Dimens. H W D (mm): 235 x 1003 x 432
Weight (lbs) each
56.8 lbs
Weight (kg) each 25.76 kg

All Axiom Centers feature:

  • Titanium Tweeters

  • Aluminum Woofers and Midranges

  • Anti-Standing-Wave cabinets that suppress internal resonances which color sound

  • 5-way gold-plated binding posts

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Customer Comments

Customer Comments

Below are just a few of the many center channel reviews that our customers have been kind enough to send us.

The Center Channel Vp150 is simply out of this world!! The sound is crisp and clear....I can hear things I never heard before, and I'm watching all my DVDs again!! You guys rock!!!!
-- Nicholas M., NY

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Once again you guys have gone above and beyond all expectations.  Both customer service wise and musically.  I order on Friday and here it is in Dallas, TX by 1pm on Monday.  Unbelievable.  I am in the business of customer service and if my clients did half of what you guys at Axiom.  I wouldn't have clients anymore!

On the music side I will say this.  I was orginally using a Sonus Faber center channel along with the axiom 60's for the front of my home theater.  I rather whimsically decided to try Axiom for my center channel last week.  I tested my Axiom 150 center channel today and there is no comparison.  Axiom blew it away.  Tonal accuracy was unbelievable and I heard things I had never heard before on DVD's. 

Thank you, Thank you for being there, everyone at Axiom!!! Oh and the punchline is that I paid over $1000.00 for my Sonus Faber center channel. Ouch! Please pass this on to you research and development team and whomever else you think might want to hear about this comparison.  I would like for them to know.
--Matthew D., TX

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The VP150 is truly the best center channel I have heard that does not cost thousands of dollars. It tops Paradigm, PSB, Mirage, JMLab Chorus, Athena, and all those other companies out there. It's loud, it's clear, it's detailed, and it's very much worth the money. A true audiophile speaker at a true budget price.
-- Ravi S., QC CA


I recently received your Center VP-150 and all I can say is WOW! I have a very large room and have tried many solutions over the past 3 years with no luck. The VP-150 exceeded my hopes and expectations. It's amazing.
-- Eric E., CA

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I have had the VP150, QS4's, and M2i for about one week now and they sound awesome. They go very well with the rest of my system. I was a little concerned about how the VP150 would integrate with the Magnepan MMG W main speakers. The reason I ordered the VP150 with the other speakers was with your trial offer I could not go wrong and besides the MMG C speaker is not available from Magnepan at the present. Well, I called today and canceled my order for the MMG C. The MMG W's are great speakers and I would have liked to have heard the MMG C with them. But after listening to the VP150, I cannot imagine the MMG C could sound any better. You can sign me one truly impressed customer. 
-- Anne R., VA

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I love the sound of the center channel speaker. It is head and shoulders above the quality of the Bose speaker it is replacing.
-- Chris M., TX


Read more customer reviews of Axiom Center Channels here.


 
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