Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Dipping toes into the Axiom waters with M80v4HP

Bottom line: I was never one for minimonitors+ sub as my main system. I felt that the monitors didn't "make enough noise" or communicate the power (especially percussion) like a well done floorstander.

It makes sense to me to have main speakers that can handle a full range of music all by themselves. I like to use a sub to augment the 1st octave only, not the "HT" style up to 80hz (except in HT)

I have had VMPS and KEF speakers that didn't REALLY need a sub for most music. I liked the fact that they could "bring it all together" from at least the 30hz range up. I was never satisfied by frequency limited speakers that lacked heft and dynamic range. My ATC SCM-12 had detail and transparency all day. The problem is, they didn't do "loud" and a 100 watt amp would only tickle them.

I feel the M-100's are going to be able to communicate the scale of an orchestra completely, with more ease and power than the m80. They are as big a speaker as I'd want to go. I am looking forward to a set of speakers that aren't dynamically constipated or overly polite.

I intend to employ them with a 300wpc Class D audio amp.

Yep, I've gone through a few rounds of "bookshelf + sub" for music listening and never quite seem to be happy with them - I keep coming back to full range speakers. Downside is that the M60s from my HT system are now sitting down in the living room music system again and everything is the wrong colour again.

I know I need knotty pine M100s, but I'm resisting as long as I can. But maybe not past Aug 31.

EGAD!!! The "interior scheme clash".

I am sick of black, and red.

I am leaning on "Russian maple" with light tan grill.

I got the M80v4 originally, but decided as great as they sounded compared to what I had, if you are going to get into trouble with the wife for buying (what she considers) big ugly speakers, go for the gusto. I traded them back for the LFR1100's

To put it into perspective, the TV room where my wife considers it to be perfectly good, there are the mini Energy Take2 classic speakers and no sub because she finds it too deep.

For right now, on the other side of the wall, I have the LFR1100's and I had to promise that I'd only listen to music once per week and not when her favorite shows are on.

I wonder if you could set up some kind of noise cancellation thing, where a modified version of the signal from the *LFR1100* side of the wall is fed into the TV sound system and the Energy speakers to reduce the stray noise your wife hears on the *TV* side of the wall.

If only we knew someone who built things with DSPs... oh wait !!

hey fellas, is there somewhere on the product page or somewhere else where Axiom actually explains the technical differences between the "standard" & "high powered" options for speakers sold here? i'm trying to understand what the actual technical differences are.

perhaps they have a side by side listing of spec's that makes it very clear. right now, the only thing i know is that it cost $490 for HP over standard when ordering M80v4 speakers.

thanks for the help people.


EDIT: i found this article about the HP woofer drivers so i answered my own question!

The HP sounds more natural at the bottom end, assuming you listen with out subs.
With subs the differences are irrelevant (so I've been told).