Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater System is shipped as we speak (so to speak)

Ok for all those who got the joke in that last post, ignore the rest of this one (I hate explaining a joke, but I hate people not getting it even more)...

For the rest of you, Van Gogh was said to be in the depths of an Absinthe binge the night he cut his own ear off. But the Absinthe made today only has 10 parts per million of thujone (that's the stuff that gives you halucinations) in it... compared to the stuff they made back in his day that had more like 260 parts per million. So we may actually make it out of there with all our ears intact!

I've never tried it. It was given to me as a birthday gift last year and I still haven't opened it.

When the original poster no longer posts, is it really considered a thread-jack?

It's an off-jack.

Well since Bob stopped posting on it, it sort of ran away... which is to be expected I guess. He does still read it though, he's been PM'ing me (and told me I don't have to keep that a secret), and telling me about his progress with the M80's. I guess him not posting on this forum speaks for itself, and is his right if he so chooses. But after hooking up the EP500 (or was it the 350?) and the center channel he said he's found them to be closer to what he was hoping, just not 100% just yet (he's still tweaking).

Bob's an alright guy, he just didn't find the M80's to be quite what he was hoping for. Not for everybody, I think we can all agree on that. He just happens to fall in the percentile of Axiom customers who "don't quite love" as compared to those who "absolutely love" them.

He hasn't returned them yet though, that say's something I guess.

In addition to my last post, even Bob clarified in a PM to me that the M80's absolutely do not sound 'shrill'. He told me I would love the clarity and detail. So he isn't hating on them as some of you might expect.

I believe it's true as well, that our hearing goes through an adjustment period as well. When I first heard some Paradigm Studio 100s, I felt at first that they were not necessarily bright but I wasn't sure if I could handle the higher frequencies or not. I gave myself some time to get let my ears get accustomed to the music and then started to enjoy them. My guess is simply that I wasn't use to hearing higher freq so clearly before having listened to budget speakers for the most part where those highs were either not there, or were distorted.
For sure, you need some patience with any system to get the best out of it, as I'm sure I will find out soon enough too.

You know you make an excellent point here Adrian. I'm in the boat where I've never experienced truely forthright speakers in my home. Every speaker I've ever owned have been very colored, laid back, muddy, what ever you may want to call them. So I can definately see where, upon hearing the M80's or any truely high end speaker for the first time, I might feel the highs over power the rest of the music. I will try to keep in mind that what I'm hearing is exactly what the artist (or at least the guy behind the mixing table in the studio) intended for me to hear. And then go from there.

If I don't like what the artist intended for me to hear, then I guess I could always go into my EQ and try to tame that high end down. Not saying I'm anticipating that, just that it's an option if I do feel that way.

Posting by proxy. Who says Bob is gone.

Who is this guy "proxy"?