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The sound was not exceptionally clear and the sort of muffled bass was very distracting.



Seriously, I've never heard of Axioms being described as "not exceptionally clear"; that's one of their strong points!

Are you aware that Axiom offers a 30 day unconditional return policy to try them in your home? Particularly if there is no one nearby with a nice/equivelant setup it might be the best way to go.

My personal take is that you have a good budget, a good sized room, and favor movies, so I would be looking at an M80/EP600 setup.

After, invite that other guy over to show him what Axioms can sound like!

::::::: No disrespect to Axiom, but my favorite woofer is my yellow lab :::::::