I never put much stock in this stuff anyway since everyone has their favorites and no matter how many people are doing the judging, speaker comparisons are always very subjective. Over the years Audioholics always spoke highly of Axiom products and even visited their plant so I am somewhat surprised at the "falling out" although, I guess every company, from time to time, will change directions in their marketing.

As far as questionable PR is concerned, that doesn't bother me as much as when a company starts to cease communications with its customers about late or non-committed delivery dates on a product which has already been paid for. The forums are starting to fill up with comments like this about "ED", a company that might be "on the brink" located in a town "on the brink"(Newton, Iowa, featured on "Sixty Minutes" two Sundays ago).

That is when I would start to worry.