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I bet Amie or Ian can ID them easily.
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Hello All; We showed this photo to Axiom's Mike Rogers and he believes it's late 80s/early 90s and it's either an AX1 or an AX1.2 - the cabinets are the same but they have a different woofer and tweeter - one is 1 inch and one is 3/4. We'll definitely need to see this speaker with the grille off to get the final verdict! If you're looking for pics of Axiom's older speaker models, check out http://www.axiomaudio.com/vintage.htmlHope this helps!
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I didn't realize the AX series had the anti-standing wave cabinets too.
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Thanks for the link to the vintage speakers. I haven't seen any of these before.
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Hi all,
I'm just catching up with this thread and I'd agree with Mike. When I saw the grille and the logo, I thought AX1.5, but I think the 1.5 was taller. Forgot about the 1.2.
Update: I got out my old copy of the Sound&Vision (Canada) Audio/Video Preview 1996 (published in the fall of 1995) which I edited, and the AX 1.2 was 12 inches tall and used a 5.25-inch woofer and 3/4-in tweeter.
The AX 1.5 Bookshelf was 14 inches tall, with a 6.5-in. woofer and the same tweeter. And the "full-size" AX 1.5 had the same drivers but in an 18-inch-tall cabinet. The list prices in Canada were, respectively, $199/pair, $249/pair and $299/pair.
There were even larger bookshelf models (AX2) with an 8-inch woofer and wider cabinet.
Regards,
Alan Lofft, Axiom Resident Expert (Retired)
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Even with the Millenia badge on the grill?
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You've got a point, but I've never kept track of the "Millennia" label other than the spelling. Axiom has always spelled it with two "n's" (the correct spelling) whereas when Paradigm used (stole?) the term, they spelled it with one "n". The term wasn't used in any of the equipment directories I have on my shelf, likely because there wasn't room in the columns for all those characters.
I dug out the 1999 Audio Equipment Directory, published in New York, which I also helped edit and the Axiom listings there were all the M1, M2, M3, M40, M50 "ti" line. So between 1995 and 1999, the entire line-up changed.
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In short, we need to see these with the grills off.
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Once you've seen one speaker with the grills off, you pretty much want to see the rest of them.
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