Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Not Another Speaker Break-In Thread(But Different)

Most kids that like to drive around in cars with BOOM BOOM subs think that is how Home Theater should sound, not the case. Sure, you can run your sub Hot (cranked up) but that is not how it should be calibrated with the rest of the system.

So true, when I first got the EP500 I put the volume to max. Now after getting all my setting right it is now half. Don't get me wrong, 2 Ep500 would be awesome.

or an EP600 and 2 EP350v3's like I have. The more subs placed around the room, the flatter the frequency response across all seating locations.

I dunno, it seems kind of unfair to have TWO Ep350s and only ONE Ep600.

I agree.
I personally think I experience this break in every time I turn on an audio system.

Example.
I get in the car to drive home, turn on the radio or CD. I immediately think, 'Man my Jeep's audio system sounds like crap'....Halfway home, I hear a song and suddenly think that it sounds pretty good.....I get home, immediately turn on the Squeezebox and M60s. I think, hmmm That's better but it's just not right. 10-15 minutes later, everything sounds just perfect.

Our ears and brains do seem to need time to adjust to a new audio experience. I 'unscientifically' compare it to our eyes having to adjust to a new lighting level.

Murph,

Nice analogy to the eyes adjusting to light. Certainly in music reproduction there is an accommodation that takes place with your ears and brain that let you "hear through" the limitations of the system (car, boat, portable, old recordings) or of the source recording to the great music or singers. I spent a number of weeks living on my sailboat this summer--it has a decent Alpine marine system, stereo, two 8-inch coaxial speakers in the cabin and two in the cockpit. I listened to a bunch of CDs and got used to it, then after a week or so, I went over to Axiom to do a bunch of listening tests, bringing along the same CDs I'd had on the boat.

I was initially floored during the first double-blind test--I recall thinking I can hardly believe that speakers are capable of this sound quality compared to what I'd been used to on the sailboat. Yet I'd accommodated the sound on the boat and enjoyed lots of music. But hearing the Axioms (I think they were M22s in the first set of tests) was like raising a veil or opening a screen door, to carry through the visual analogy.

It's really interesting how the brain and hearing system adjust and filter out the annoying stuff--lack of fidelity, distortion artifacts, etc-- to let you get off on the good music.

Regards,
Alan

Alan, maybe you need to convince Ian to make some Axioms for marine applications.

Great idea. M80s would make excellent outriggers for my kayak if they floated.

I'm stunned that Alan doesn't have Axioms installed in the sailboat yet.
That concept is simply ludicrous.
It is just not believable.

I suspect his boat would be 12 volt power. Marine systems are a much easier fit. Of course, it wouldn't be impossible to set up an Axiom system and he could then entertain Ian's VIP guests, write off his upgrade taxes as a business expense and more importantly, host a floating web board party !!!!