Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Do *GOOD* "Lifestyle" speakers even exist?

I believe the problem is that you need at least moderately sized drivers to even handle the lower midrange properly at decent volumes for a moderate sized room. I can tell you that M2s with a good subwoofer make a fantastic system for a smaller room, but I haven't heard anything much smaller that is really sastisfying.

The smaller Axioms were discontinued -- only guessing at the reasons, but I imagine the smaller units were not much cheaper to build than the M2-size speakers and didn't perform as well.

The trend today seems to be high performance in-wall speakers rather than small free-standing speakers. Is something like that a possibility for you ?