I think you would see more people reccomending them, Its just that alot of us just dont see the need to be known as the forum axiom fanboy. Ive stopped saying "check out axiom so and so" on forums for quite a while now because i get tired of reading other people doing the same thing for everything else under the sun just because they own it. There are certainly better speakers out there, and most definetly worse ones. From what I have seen what gets constantly reccomended on forums is sort of a flavor of the month and also varies from forum to forum.

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