To elaborate a bit - Axiom speakers are brutally accurate; therefore they produce faithfully what is recorded.
Poor recordings (there are a lot of them out there - excessively loud, no dynamic range, compressed) will sound, well, poor.
In contrast, fine recordings will excel & will come across wonderfully.
There are a lot of my older CDs (I have some from the infancy of the CD) that I don't listen to anymore because they just are not up to the high sound quality of the likes of Eric Clapton whose works over the past 10 years have been superbly recorded. His older stuff is not nearly as good IMO & it languishes in the drawer.
I am a big fan of SACDs, not because of the medium per se, but due to the fact that much more care has been taken to mix the recordings properly for this supposedly 'audiophile' segment. Most really sound fabulous, although some better than others...
TAM
