Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Some questions re: M22 and SS16 (longish)

Hey tonygeno, thanks for the link to the partsexpress stands. Are you using these stands with M22s? They seem like they're on the right track, but with a platform of 7 - 1/16" square, I would think the spikes on the corners of the platform would not match up with the bottom of the M22s. Nice and heavy though, I like that.

No, I don't have the M22 but have owned many stand mounted speakers over the years. As long as the top plate fits inside the speaker dimensions, you should be fine. I don't think the M22 is less than the the length/width of the top plate at its narrowest, so it should fit perfectly.

Oh, and you can use Blutack by Bostick to "affix" the speaker to the stand. It's a putty that does a great job of bonding, but is easily removable.

I too just got M22s and SS16s. While I love the M22s, I'm really not impressed with the SS16s.

At first I couldn't even set them up because one of the rods wouldn't thread, even when I pulled out the vice grips. (Let me say that Axiom does have excellent customer service, and they did sent out a replacement rod to me at no charge.)

Even after getting them assembled, I expect them to fall apart - actually, one did while I was positioning speakers.
Fortunately I had a hold of the M22 when it happened.

After assembling them a second time, they still aren't sturdy at all. I am unable to tighten the bottom nut enough so the plate on top won't move around - the top cap just spins when I try. As a result, the middle tube, top plate, and bottom can all rotate seperately from one another - not cool.

The top plate also isn't the right size for the Axioms. Ideally, the top plate and the bottom of the m22s would be pre-drilled, so you could securely mount the speakers onto the stands. Of course, I'm not sure there's any point to securely mounting a speaker to a stand that is as unstable as the SS16.

If I didn't love the M22s so much, I would have sent the whole kit back without a second thought. As it is, I give the M22s an A, and the SS16s a D.

16 - 18 inches is the ideal height for a speaker stand in my setup though - what are other people using with their M22s at that height?

Axiom should probably OEM some stands from one of the many stand manufacturers. I believe Plateau is Canadian. They could probably get a nice, fillable metal stand OEM'd for not much more than the SS16.

Interesting you should mention OEM. I was wondering if they already were OEM, since the box the stands came in had a big "The Stand Company" logo on it. I don't know if this is just a department of Axiom though...

I have my m22s setting on a pair of 24" stands made by VTI.They have a heavy metal base plate and are fillable.I got them from discounts-n-deals.com.I think they also come 16" or 18".