I hope you will be able to obtain a pair of 850s, While the 1ks, with the 8" woofers unhooked, will sound similar to the 850s, you essentially would be testing a speaker which, unless you want to buy a pair of 1ks and unhook the woofers, nobody would be purchasing.
One more thing we all might keep in mind that Rocket and Paradigm proponents, in all probability, will be checking in here to read what YOU are saying about the whole thing. I know I'll be following the threads at av123 and AVS as well. It might behoove us to remember that, like it or not, we ARE representing Axiom. And rather than being the normal surly, snarling, bunch of savages that we are, maybe we could pretend, for a minute, that we are civilized and courteous.
Because of my circumstances (mumble, grumble
), I will be unable to attend. I sincerely wish I could. Maybe then I would finally know what my honest preferences are.
