I have both new and factory outlet speakers from Axiom. I was able to locate what I believe to be the blemishes on the speakers. . .some I'm not quite sure if it could be considered a blemish. I have gotten 4 speakers from the outlet and the most significant blemish was a tiny push-in on the back corner of a VP100. Once in place nobody would ever notice, and come to think of it this could have happened during shipping and it wasn't even the blemish that Axiom had seen.
So to sum up. I have NO regrets of buying the factory outlet speakers and I am very particular about how things look.
