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Good one!

My wife talked me into going for the M80s, talked me into buying the EP350v3, and bought the VP100 herself.

I like how people brag about their wives here.

In two words, "he** yes"

Seriously, as I write this, I'm sitting in the HT with my wife watching the Dave Matthews Band Live Concert BluRay with my wife. She has literally been marveling at the sound all day. We watched the first hour this afternoon and she was practically begging me to get back in here all day long to listen to the rest. My wife has to this point in life been TOTALLY disinterested in audio. The sounds of the guitar that come through the Axioms in this recording are just unbelievable.

Since we've gotten the Axiom setup in our HT, she's as eager to get in here and listen/watch as I am. (she's a huge DMB fan as well, which doesn't hurt)

Enough about my wife and back to your question... is it a nice warm sound? To me, it is nice,warm, beautiful (pick your adjective). Admittedly, my ears are not "professional grade," but I can tell you that with your stated goal above, I'm 99.9% certain that you'll be ecstatic with the Axioms and never think about sending them back.

Honestly, you might be happy with the Aperions too, I can't say anything bad about them other than about the manual switching required for the surrounds - that would be a total PITA in my book and I don't think it'd be worth it to me to have to go through that when switching audio sources. Even if audio quality was exactly the same between the two, this drawback would be enough to push me to Axiom too (back to the issue of my laziness) By the way, you asked how I like the QS8s... try a search on the forum to get some historical much more detailed reviews as well, but my quick response is that I find them to provide great envelopment for surround material. I also occasionally play my 2-channel audio in 7-channel stereo mode which really brings out the impressive sound of the QS8s.


I'll forward you a PM about the 1080UB so you can stay on topic here. I just wrote some info up for another member here and can pass the same message along.

Have fun shopping, feel free to hit me/us up with more questions.

Because I like their internet-direct approach and they are located in Portland, I've often considered trying out some Aperion speakers.

However, they've only been making speakers for a few years and have not produced tower speakers even that long. Also, a fairly high percentage of their manufacturing takes place overseas. This may not matter to you, of course.

By comparison, Axiom is an R&D company that has been in business for about 20 years, and has been refining both their designs and their Canadian manufacturing facility that entire time. I think that probably counts for something.

Axiom's been in business 27 years.

In my research for high value (i.e. internet-direct) high quality speakers, I often come down to Aperion vs. Axiom. In the end I end up agreeing w/ CV above.



I tell you, though, I don't see any change at all with Aperion's new line of speakers. As a matter of fact, they're not a new line - the 633T and the 634-VAC just changed names. The towers went up by a whopping $200 per speaker, and the center by $100 per speaker. Everything, and I mean everything else is the same. The type (2-way for the tower), size of drivers, even the descriptions on the website are the same. There isn't even anything saying why the new 6T is better, or any other justification for the price hike. I mean I know inflation is an issue (don't even get my wife goin' on the price of eggs), but this was a 40% price increase. At least their new Bravus line of subwoofers has a larger amp, and seems to try to go head to head against the EP-500. I don't know, seems weird to me.

This doesn't sound very appealing .

"Intimus 533-PT Powered Tower Speaker $599.00

Prepare to have your inner ear turned into an erogenous zone."