Some people have never even heard Axiom speakers before, and are listening to BS started by people with agendas, possibly by people in the industry who feel threatened by an internet direct company that cuts out these middle men. People who believe others opinions on Axiom's or any other speaker for that matter, are only hurting themselves in the end, as they are cheating themselves out of auditioning a fine speaker. I've heard people describe Monitor Audio and Paradigm speakers the same way, i auditioned both and found them very detailed as well. I guess hearing everything you're supposed to hear, means 'bright' to some people....could be they're just used to not hearing any detail on whatever they already own, who knows. As has been stated before...the graphs don't lie, unfortunately some people can be a little different.

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