Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Are Axioms right for me?

I'm looking for a pair of floorstanding speakers that will be great for regular SD TV viewing, which means that they should be forgiving to average sound quality. I don't watch movies much, but when I do, they're international and not mastered as well as hollywood ones. Would you reccomend Axioms in this case? Does SPL value tells how forgiving the speaker is?

My receiver will be either Onkyo or Marantz stereo receiver.

Thanks for any suggestions.

No and no. If you're only interested in amplifying the over the air std TV audio signal (and aren't real particular about perfection), you can accomplish that with speakers at a much lower price than Axioms. Again, the Onkyo HTIB #4770 ? seems like a logical choice - loud, warm, wooly, forgiving and cheap.
Good luck.

Despite possibly negating an order for Axiom, BigWill is completely right. Axioms are very detailed and revealing speakers. They would take the substandard signal that most TV stations provide and reproduce it in all its grainy glory.

The good news is that you can save yourself some money by going with less expensive speakers.

On the other hand, if you bought Axioms, you would probably use them for much more than just TV. You do listen to music, don't you?

Oh, and the SPL rating of a speaker just tells you how sensitive it is. To create the rating, a speaker is supplied with 1 Watt of power and the loudness is measured by a microphone placed exactly 1 meter away from the face of the speaker. The more sensitive/efficient the speaker, the louder 1 watt will sound.

I'd recommend Athena ASB1's or some Infinity Primus speakers. I've never personally heard the Infinity's but I hear good things about them. This is all of course if it is for almost always TV listening.

BigWill:

Alright, good to know.

The fact that my SD source is Dishnetwork "Digital-Home" is still not good enough, right?
The Onkyo HTIB fronts are not floorstanding, and I only interested in a pair (stereo). Can you suggest any other ones?

Thanks!

pmbuko:

Thanks for the clarification! For some reason I thought that sensitivity relates to forgiveness

This setup will mainly be used for TV viewing and sometimes for DVD. I will definetely consider Axioms in my seperate HiFi setup for music.

For DVD, there are lots of Axiom speakers that would sound simply awesome, but I agree with the guys above on the subpar TV signals. Also, if you listen to CD's, Axioms will make them sound better than you've ever heard them before, unless they were originally a poor recording.

good luck

I completely disagree with you guys. I ALWAYS watch TV with the Axioms (DTS Neo:6, natch), and it sounds either not so great (same as with TV speakers), decent, or pretty good, depending on the program. I have standard, basic, analog cable. CSI:New York sounds pretty good, with lots of surround and all, South Park sounds like doodoo. There we are!

OK, but would you have spent the money on the Axioms knowing that that you'd be using them almost exclusively for TV? Seems a little overkill, don't it?

Yeah, probably not. No music at all?