>>I'm still betting on shennanigans on the part of the salesman, though.

That was my first thought as well but it sounds like usp was watching him pretty closely and was involved in the setup.

Barring some kind of hookup problem like "out of phase" (which would really hurt the sound, and in exactly the way usp described) the other possibility seems to be some kind of speaker defect. Depending on where usp lives (I'm guessing Ontario) the next step might be to get him in front of some "known good" Axioms.


M60ti, VP180, QS8, M2ti, EP500, PC-Plus 20-39
M5HP, M40ti, Sierra-1
LFR1100 active, ADA1500-4 and -8