Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners What the...........monsters!!!!

How sturdy are the speakers? They must be able to tip very easily with being so high and narrow...I found my M60's needed outriggers, I can't imagine these not falling over with a light breeze...

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I also posted in the wall o fame thread, I had tried this with M60s on top of the M80s( thread ) and didn't like it much, when sitting you only heard the one M80, when standing you heard a layered sound, maybe for a very large room and much greater listening distances things would even out.

i read your post it was interesting. one thing i do know for sure is that every human being on earth hears differently... some like it hot and some like it cold too.
anyways i like the sound of them, i guess i could do an a/b test for my own use. a to the bottom and b to the top, a or b, a and b...
they are top heavy but behind the screen no one gets near them.

i've been listening closely to them in 2 channel mode, using ipod and a subwoofer, they're 9ft apart and seating is 9ft back, toed them in some, sounds pretty good.
i placed the centre horizontal but it really screwed up the sound, left to right was aweful, all three vertically works perfect as long as your seated.

Try standing up and then sit down and see if you hear the layered effect I remember. When you stand up you get hit with the bass from the upper set of woofers, it is kind of a neat effect, also pay attention to the area inbetween sitting and standing and you can here different tones etc. Then move around the room, this design really does fill a room up with sound.

the only changes that happen are the high frequencies are better when seated everything else you mention does not exist. when the centre was horizontal the left to right was really poor, but on axis was fine, so as long as i sat in the middle it sounded great, behind the at screen all 3 vertical sound great

That is kind of what I mean by layered, you get less high frequencies when standing and more mid/lower range, where as with the standard M80 it doesn't sound that much different while seated or standing

tomorrow i'll hook up just the lowers and give them a listen. do you think if i disconnect the upper 2 tweeters it may solve it.

Try just the lowers and see what you think but I have no way of knowing how Ian put those together and whether or not the lower is as simple as a normal M80 or if he has the whole speaker rigged differently as you can have them set as 4 ohm or 8ohm and the standard M80 is 4 ohm so the crossovers must be linked etc.