Yep... I was going to type something to that effect in my first post but my fingers were getting tired. Once you get up to "decent" speakers (and Axioms are definitely in that class) you are dealing with personal biases and preferences of the speaker designer as much as "goodness".

The one reliable truth in the the speaker business is that really expensive speakers tend to be better looking that less expensive speakers, but there are even blatant (ugly ) exceptions to that

M60ti, VP180, QS8, M2ti, EP500, PC-Plus 20-39
M5HP, M40ti, Sierra-1
LFR1100 active, ADA1500-4 and -8