Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Anyone here own Axiom speakers in Light Maple?

Hi everyone. I have seen alot of pics with Black, Boston Cherry, and I think one Beech Axiom speakers, but I'm wondering if anyone here owns any in Light Maple. I'm curious how these look in a real world setup. Anyone got any pics?TIA

I don't own the Maple, but I had a pair of M60's in maple at my place for about a week. They look really nice! I only bought the boston cherry, because it matched the center I already had.

My fronts and center are Boston Cherry (maple wasn't an option back when I bought my M22s), but my surrounds are maple. At the moment, I am webpage-less, but if you email me (rdarst@comcast.net), I'll be happy to send you pictures of them. They blend in very nicely with a standard off-white living room wall--so nicely, in fact, that my audiophobic spouse allowed me to get them. Previously, she had insisted on in-wall speakers, but I was able to sell her on the maple Axioms. Much more bang for the buck!

Would I get an all-maple set up if I had it to do all over again? Quite possibly: to the extent that we have a decor theme, it is light-wood Scandinavian.

Best,
Rob

There are some pictures of my system here:
http://www.axiomaudio.com/boards/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=first&Number=18830&page=3&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=all

My camera has pretty low resolution, so sorry sbout the quality. But They look great, especially if they match your decor. And definitely get the tan grills.

Rob, thanks again for sending me the pics, and snippy thanks for providing the link. They were very helpful. In my room the tan grilles won't go, but black will. I was also considering the light gold covers which would go better than tan, but not as good as black. My wife says it'll look hideous with light gold covers, but what do you guys think?

minirock, for either $10-$15 refundable if you buy the speakers, you can get a sample of veneer and cloth cover. sent to you so you can see how it would look

Metier

Thanks metier, I may do that.

The tan grills look almost the exact same color as the speakers. I do not understand why anyone would want the black grills, but everyone I guess can have their opinion.

I have had both color grills and I hated the black ones until they finally came out with the tan ones. My girlfriend was also very happy when the tan grills came because they looked so much better.

I like the tan grille's - I think I want to order some tan grille's on these boston cherry speakers I have.

I want to thank you guy's for helping me out on the color situation, and especially to Rob for emailing me pics . In the end though, my wife chose black. We are replacing a def tech system with the Epic 80, but slowly, for the family room. I ordered and received the VP-150 in black to replace a C/L/R 2500, and I'm very impressed with this center speaker. I even went and tried it in my theater (in place of my ML Cinema center) and you know honestly I would be more than happy to use this speaker in my setup. This is a wonderful detailed speaker. I'm ordering the rears (QS8) on Monday, and the 80's after I sell the def tech mains. I'm also eager to get the 80's and try them in my theater in place of my ML's.