It can't possibly be that the Ts are better than the SVS Ultra Towers. I mean...the SVS have composite glass-fiber cone with excellent stiffness/mass ratio for high sensitivity and pistonic behavior beyond pass band.

It goes to show that a speaker (like anything) has to be designed as a system. It's not about an esoteric cabinet or driver or cross-over but rather the effective integration of all the sub-systems and knowing what the secret sauce is that leads to that effective integration. For Axiom, it's the interpretation of the Family of Curves.

House of the Rising Sone
Out in the mid or far field
Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated