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Biggest thing I have ever bought for myself by far...

Dear Duane Reed,

Thank you for purchasing at AxiomAudio.com; we hope you will enjoy our products for years to come. Your transaction number for this purchase is: ********.



You purchased the following items:

1 VP150 Center in Boston Cherry finish for 385.00 USD

1 EP500 Powered Subwoofer in Boston Cherry finish for 1,150.00 USD

1 Pair Millennia M80ti Towers in Boston Cherry finish for 1,240.00 USD

1 Pair QS8 Surrounds in Boston Cherry finish for 500.00 USD


Now comes the worst part...waiting for them to arrive.

My GF is going to want to kill me as I obsessively check the tracking every 5 minutes .

Congratulations, and welcome to the party.

You are going to LOVE that system! You'll probably have it by the weekend.

We like pictures

Yeah man that is a first class system you're getting there.Congrats.

Thanks I'll be sure and post up some pictures. You can all laugh at the smallish room I'm putting all that power in .

I just sent my GF an E-mail entitled "Speakers so loud they blow women's clothes off" with just a picture of the system and in big letters "THEY ARE COMING..."

Excellent, Duane!

When I purchased my system a year ago, someone else described the experience as it being "like a kid at Christmas" and they were exactly right!

You're going to be thrilled with that system!

Awesome! Great system. Let us know your thoughts after you try it out.

Yup,...no question; Waiting is a Primary Bummer!!!!

But, and this is important: You are getting all your speakers at one time!!

Many of us ordered our systems one or two peices at a time and went thru the "Nose on the Window Glass" ordeal more times over the years than is tolerated by the average human psyche.

Congratulstions for having the foresight and ability to buy your speakers, and your sanity, all at one time!!







The wait will still seem interminable though!
Rich.

Just be like Homer and put one of those automatic pecking birds next to your mouse and have it click the refresh button for you.

Where can you buy one of those birds. As a kid we had one, but I haven't seen one around for some time. I bet my kids would think it was neat, they've never seen such a device.

Congrats on the system! It's a great one, you'll love it.

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You purchased the following items:

1 VP150 Center in Boston Cherry finish for 385.00 USD

1 EP500 Powered Subwoofer in Boston Cherry finish for 1,150.00 USD

1 Pair Millennia M80ti Towers in Boston Cherry finish for 1,240.00 USD

1 Pair QS8 Surrounds in Boston Cherry finish for 500.00 USD

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Duane, you are da man. Very nice system my friend...I hope you will have many years of enjoyment out of it!

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From: noreen@axiomaudio.com [mailto:noreen@axiomaudio.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:31 PM
To: Duane Reed
Subject: Axiom Order Shipped


Hi Duane:

We shipped your Axiom products today using FedEx. You can track your order online at www.axiomaudio.com/track.html using tracking numbers:

7115 3818 8119
7115 3818 8120
7115 3818 8130
7115 3818 8141
7115 3818 8152
7115 3818 8163

These numbers will begin tracking after 7pm Eastern Standard Time today.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about your order.

Kind regards,

Noreen Solman
Axiom Audio
www.axiomaudio.com

Hmmm....anyone know if there's a way to use those tracking numbers to get the shipment diverted to my house?

Cool! Now we can ALL track them!

Too late Mike.

The shipment is already headed to south Florida, I've got the tracking numbers to prove it.

Stop that! You're going to worry him!!

Duane, only Noreen has the power to re-route those speakers, and she won't break, I promise! No matter what BrotherBob offers her!

That's it Amie......keep him calm just long enough for me to get the packages!

Duane,

A sweet system! Congrats! Keep watching for the Fedex truck. The guy will need help with unloading the........






BEAST (EP500)!

Yeah, the Fedex guy actually helped me get my 600 into the basement. Great service, he got a great tip also!

Congrats on the Axioms... You will love them.

Congrats on your purchase. Maybe I should change my 60's to 80's. My order should ne coming in the next two weeks from the FO. I can hardly wait.

Have fun!

Congrats Duane, you're going to love your new system bud!



Sutter

Heh,

My girlfriend has a friend from out of town coming in on friday. I'm going to be tweaking my system all weekend I'm sure...I wonder if I will be the first person to lose a significant other because of his Axioms .

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Yeah, the Fedex guy actually helped me get my 600 into the basement. Great service, he got a great tip also!

Congrats on the Axioms... You will love them.

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I came home from work one day and our 600 was sitting right there by the front door step. I pulled onto the drive and the first thing that crossed my mind whenever I saw it was 'Did they ship us two of 'em in one box?!' Fortunately we have a ranch style house and I also have a snazzy little hand cart and it just sooo happened to be the very first item staring me down whenever I opened the garage door...so my move wasn't too bad.
Good thing my wife wasn't home whenever they delivered it, I may still be trying to locate that 'misplaced' 600 in some unobscured Area 51 FedEx warehouse.

I couldn't imagine trying to lug a 600 either down or up a flight of stairs, man that has to be a burden.

duane
Congrats! I'm sure you will enjoy your system for many years to come.
oz

Dude, you blew it! You coulda had a complete set-up from Streem Speakers for half that!





Just kidding - you did good.

What kind of receiver, or pre/pro are you using?

Congrats, Duane! You're gonna have a whole mess of boxes show up at once. Have fun!

Terrific speakers, Duane, and the 3806 is a superb receiver that you'll be able to experiment with a lot later using the the auto setup and Odyssey MultEQ.

Picked up a Denon 3806, so far I'm very happy with what I have seen but I haven't done a whole lot with it since the only speakers I have here now are trash.

The international tracking doesn't show a delivery date estimate. I wonder if that will update since I have to plan to have the day off.

This morning Fedex show 12/8 by 4:30 as delivery. My Fedex guy told me when he delivered mine that he liked to get the heavy packages out early in the day. Mine arrived before lunch.

Wow, that's fast. I expected with the shipping being included for them to be on the slow boat around south america or something.

Nope, the FedEx International service that Axiom uses is 3 days to the US. You'll come to find that Axiom has fantastic customer service all the way around, starting with the fast shipping

At 8:01 am the package is at the Irvine Fedex facility!

8:12 AM

On FedEx vehicle for delivery

Are you ready!

I don't know if he's ready, but you are! (me too)

Fun to be able to share in the tracking of the orders!

I'm sitting in my office listening to every car go by and jumping up to the window every time it sounds even remotely like a FedEx Truck ...

DHL just pulled up and I almost went jumping out the window to meet him till i realized it wasn't FedEx.

2 minutes after posting the UPS guy drove by...BASTARD! doesn't he know what he's doing to me?!?!

Wait until you smell them!

Mmmmmmmmmm....Axiom........speakers........

Indeed. That "new speaker smell." I'm getting an endorphine rush just reading this thread today.

They are here!!!

I'm off to play with my new toys, talk to you guys when I manage to pull myself away again.

Have fun Duane, if we don't here from you within the next few days we'll send out a search party!



Sutter

Well, it's 4:05. I wonder what he is opening first?

80's man, what's that in your avatar?

My bet is he is going to open the M80s first.

One of my fonder memories from the 80's

Well the first thing I did was check everything over for any damage from shipping.

And while I don't think it was from shipping I did find a tweeter was "dented" on one of my QS8's =(.

Ouch! Get on the phone pronto pal and give Axiom a call. They'll take good care of you, that you can count on!


Sutter

Duane, I'd still mount & use it until the replacement tweeter shows.

So how about a room picture with everything unpacked and packing material strewn everywhere??

I was going to guess Tandy 1000, ha ha

Randy, I had one of those, too! But I started off with a Vic 20 and a Cassette Drive!! HaHa. My parents spent $700 bucks on that thing. I almost need to apologize.

My guess was going to be a Commodore 64. lol



Sutter

You got it...

Axiom will take care of it. May even send a new surround.

Pics! Reviews!

Congrats!

Just got off the phone with Axiom, a new tweeter is on it's way =).

Took all of 10 minutes I must say I'm impressed.

Excellent!



Sutter

Congrats Duane - those are things of beauty!! Once they are hooked up - wait for it - here comes the grin!!

Congrats on your new babies .

They look great Duane, I bet the house is really smelling good about now. Congrats!

WOW! Christmas came early for you this year, didn't it?

WELL? WE'RE WAITING!!!? Where's the "WACKA-DOO?"

Ok here is a pick of the initial setup. I'm sure I'll be moving things around and I definately have to go buy a new TV cabinet. (The rest of my place is all dark wood it's the last hold out. Besides it's starting to buckle LOL).



So far they sound great. I've done some inital level matching and setup on the receiver but that's about it. I've played all kinds of music and a few DVDs and I'm loving them so far. I tried really hard to play some "harsh" stuff since some people seem to think it's a problem with Axioms but I was unable to find anything so far. I did find a few badly mastered songs though .

Again over all they sound awesome, even MP3's sound pretty damn good as long as they were ripped at high quality. I'll do some more testing this weekend and post some more.

Looks great buddy. Try spacing out those 80's a little more if you can, it'll help improve the imaging/soundstage. Looking really good though my friend. Now crank that mother UP!!!



Sutter

I agree with Sutter. Space those guys out a bit more if you can.

Don't worry about the TV cabinet. This hobby is about building in stages. For most of us it is too expensive to do all at once!

Unfortunately with my space if I move that left 80 any more to the left it will be pointing in to my sectional couch. That and it will severely limit the walkway between the couch and the speaker. Here are some pics to illustrate what I'm talking about.





If i move the whole rig any more to the right the sweet spot will be the end of the couch .

So I think I may be stuck with them where they are (5ft apart) till I move. (Possibly Feb)

Yeah those 80's are pretty deep puppies aren't they.


Sutter

I guess it's not so bad as long as you don't sit too far away. We should all be so lucky to have ideal audio rooms.


Those shots really show how deep those M80s are. (It looks like I'm going to echo everything Sutter says in this thread )

Oh that's ok buddy, I don't having an echo, I don't mind having an echo. lol


Sutter

LOL!

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Unfortunately with my space if I move that left 80 any more to the left it will be pointing in to my sectional couch.

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So, firing a speaker straight into a couch is a bad thing? I had just assumed my speakers suck....

>>> So, firing a speaker straight into a couch is a bad thing? I had just assumed my speakers suck.... <<<

You know Mark, I'm thinking you *may* want to move that left QS8 over a little ways. If you by some chance lose your grip and slip you could possibly bump your head on the QS8 and strain or even break your neck. Now we wouldn't want that to happen now ... would we?

Oh, also remember to lift with your knees and not your back.

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speaker straight into a couch is a bad thing

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I'm beginning to think Mark's elephant may be haunting him!

Well I'm having a problem =(. My EP500 seems to cut in and out especially at higher volumes. I tried switching the cable and no luck but I did notice the coaxial input seems really lose as compared to the ouput. I can move it around with my finger and if I jiggle the cable it seems to make the sound cut in and out. I'm calling Axiom now to see if there is soemthing I can do.

Everything should be a nice tight fit. You might have a broken connection. Axiom CS will help!

Well I talked to Joe over at Axiom and he said to E-mail my information and he would send me a new amp on monday. I gather that these physical problems are rare for them must be a fluke that I got 2 =(.

As far as the customer service however they have proven themselves beyond a doubt the best company I have dealt with bar none.

Yes, sorry to hear you have had 2 issues. Great troubleshooting on the sub. It would make sense the higher volumes cause the loose connection to be unstable.

When are you getting your replacement tweeter for the QS8?

The tweeter shipped today. So I'm guessing tuesday and hopefully wednesday on the 500 amp. Going to tell people not to come check it out till I get the sub fixed at least I think . Not the same HT experience to show off with out the rumble.

Replacement tweeter came in today for the QS8 =).

Haven't heard anything yet on the 500 amp. Guess I'll call them tommorow morning. I sent some E-mails but didn't get a response.

On a side note I watched Black Hawk Down last night and it was like seeing it for the first time. It sounded amazing on the system my girlfriend just kept looking at me saying WOW!

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All you dvds will be like that!

Heard from Noreen today and my replacement 500 amp will ship out today =).

Can't wait to hear my system at its full potential. So far I can't imagine ever sending these back.

I borrowed a friend's Eagles Hell Freezes Over DVD and was blown away...then I realized it had defaulted to PCM...Switched to DTS and was blown away yet again!

I have War of the worlds (never seen it) sitting here just waiting for the arrival of the 500 amp.

On a side note I have a few times found some parts of songs that bring out what people probably consider harsh or bright about these speakers. It comes out very rarely and only on specific songs. So far I can easily attribute it to the recording because I have put on music that is very harsh or bright to begin with and not experienced anything but clean transparent sound. I listen to everything from Vivaldi, Marshall Tucker, 2 Pac, Stevie Ray Vaughn, etc. So I have definitely run them through the gamut musically. I haven't done a whole lot of HT watching yet because I really want the sub in place before I form any opinions

Anyways loving them so far.

Wow, and I thought I was on the only one who like the Marshall Tucker Band.



Sutter

When I had a particularly nasty woman skip town with another man and take all my stuff with her (Including my HT equipment) I think the only thing that kept me sane was "This old cowboy" by marshall tucker .

Incredible! Who would have thought both of the band's fans posted on the same message board???

There's a song by them titled "Driving You Out Of My Mind" that I've always liked. As far as I know, it wasn't a real hugh hit, and it didn't get a whole lot of radio play, but I've always liked that song. It umm, well, brings back some memories to say the least. Great tune though.



Sutter

I actually saw the Marshall Tucker band play as an opening act to the Almond Brothers Band in about 1974-5 at the Los Angeles Forum.

They were excellent BTW.

Got my replacement 500 amp yesterday and got it installed. The replacement amp came in a wood crate sealed with 4 inch wood screws.

Did some initial level matching and then popped in war of the worlds. Can't say I care for the movie much, but man did it show off the axioms . My girlfriend kept saying "It's shaking my !@# right through the couch!".

Also I listened very closely for any vibration or rattle in the 500 and couldn't find any.

All right for the shak'n!