I've wondered if Axiom has ever tried anything with composites. While they get great sound from MDF boxes, I wonder what they could do if not limited to a flat front baffle.

While it gets pretty expensive when working in wood to get nice compound curves, it's nothing to lay out fiberglass or carbon fiber on a mold and get any shape you desire.

In my car circle, our group pushed a guy with slight aspirations of making custom body panels to go with it, and get the equipment to do carbon fiber. He actually was surprised how easy it was once he got into it.

It might be a little difficult to build the entire enclosure, and get the rigidity needed for the bass drivers, but as shown in the links above, a hybrid design with the tweeters in the composite enclosure attached to a more traditional box to hold the parts more likely to shake things up. Still could have a waveguide diffractor glued to that too.


Pioneer PDP-5020FD, Marantz SR6011
Axiom M5HP, VP160HP, QS8
Sony PS4, surround backs
-Chris