Saturn,

Trying to be a smartass again eh? perhaps you should read my post again, I did say most of the time you get what you paid for, and that including speakers that cost couple times more that also able to out perform the Axiom, as for the Snakeoils I was refering to, aheh...I'll give you two examples, 1st, the Alon Napoleon, retail for $2499, 4 satellites with a sub and was being recommended by their Sales Rep to outgun and rival $20K speakers, give them a listen and I'm sure you'll love them, hey...only $2499, isn't that affortable enough for sucker like you?
2nd, the famous White-Van's high end Digital towers that were "retail" for thousands of dollars as well, I don't even need to listen to them, one look at the Van, the young punks and those HIGH END speakers, I'd dismissed those scumback in less than 3 seconds. Knowing some of "those people" like you that "CAN affort it", I sure would refer them to you next time when I ran across these nice folks again...muahahaha.