Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Front soundstage, 3-M2's or 2-M2's & VP100, ??

Brrrr.

you know, it really is. no one ever uses this stuff but me i never have to wait for someone to finish watching or doing something like i do in the main HT room. this space in the basement is mine all mine! Just me and the cats! I can't wait to get those M2's. I am inagining how good they sound. since i have other Axiom speakers, I have no doubt that i'll be impressed!

i just received my order of 5 speakers! there is good news and bad news; first the good news.

this is the first time i have ever had 3 matching vertical speakers for the front 3 soundstage and it is incredible, it's the way to go. I'd tell anyone, if you can, DO IT! the seperation is, well, you gotta hear it to understand! My small basement office setup redone with 3 M2v3's and a pair of QS4v3 surrounds sounds better than i could ever have imagined it would.
those little speakers really put out some good quality sound; everything is crystal clear. deciding to go with them was one of the best choices i've made in a while. i was a little worried because they were smaller than the speakers that i was replacing but they are more than twice the speaker of what they have replaced.

now the bad news...
the other 2 of the 5 were going to replace the surround back speakers in my main HT room, however, i have a bad woofer in one of them. i always test each speaker by going into the setup and turning on the level tones to make sure i'm hearing something that sounds like it should.
well, on one of the 5 it didn't. i tested each of the new speakers on the same channel to ensure that it wasn't a fluke; and it wasn't one of the two boston cherries has a bad driver. i sent an email to Axiom today to let them know and asked if they would just send a driver if that was easier (and quicker) and i'd replace it, test it and if everything was good, i'd just send the driver back.
so given it's a Saturday, I don't expect to get an answer until Tuesday since Monday is a holiday both Here and up north. Don't get me wrong, I'm still very happy with Axiom as a company and with their product. i have no doubt that they will "do me right" as they have in the past one other time when they needed to. I'll keep you all posted.

still can't get over how good those M2's sound and how good that 3 matched vertical speaker sound. It makes me wish i would have been able to do that with my M80's and no, that's not a knock at my VP180 either. 3 vertical fronts is just more smooth but for most of us (myself included)it's not do-able with large towers.

WoW, talk about quick service, as stated in the post above, i emailed axiom a couple of hours ago, on a saturday and JC already responded to me and told me that an order has been placed for a replacement driver to be sent to me. how many other companies in this industry will give you that type of service on a saturday afternoon, nevermind during the regular weekday! this is why ALL of my speakers, all 12 of them are Axioms! I love this company! I'll follow with the results of the new driver install once it arrives next week!

Yes, regardless of the excellence of a center speaker design which is entirely horizontal, a vertically arrayed center of similar overall quality will still have an inherent edge.

Why does that always sound so much better when you say it?

That's our Jonk!

That is why I never try a vertical center. I don't want to know that it could get a bet better than it already is...

received the new woofer for the M2v3 did some minor driver transplant surgery:




carefully removing the screws for patient SBL



removed faulty driver and gave stak-on terminals minor tightening to ensure a tight fit when engaged onto the new driver terminals.



conductor terminals engaged and properly mated to new driver. ready to close patient SBL up and send some juice to it for the jump start test.



OK, everybody clear.....UPA-2 juice applied, we have tone, good tone too, Great Caesars Ghost, IT'S ALIVE! :p Patient SBL is doing fine and is now ready for normal duty!


SBL is joined by SBR thanks to the great customer service team of Axiom that got the new woofer to us just in the nik of time. Now SBL&R are happy and powered by UPA-2! the 7 channel Axiom HT speaker system is now whole once again!

Thanks to Axiom and their quick service and incredibly great customer service all is good at the house of Solarrdadd! For the forseeable future, a loyal Axiom customer shall I remain! All 12 Axiom speakers in the house are tickled Boston Cherry & Black Oak!

To break it in, tonight the house of Solarrdadd shall enjoy that great new 7.1 Dolby TrueHD movie---MEGAMIND!

I'll be sure to let everyone know how it goes.

Thanks for taking the time to post the pictures. I still think those v3's look great without the grills. The mounts for the rear speakers are nice - what are they?