Timely question, we are in the process of creating a glossary of terms for our website. Alan Lofft is putting it together and it should appear some time in the next month. As for you specific question on soundstage and imaging, these are very similar terms. They refer to the perceived location of the various specific sounds i.e. the vocalist. Ideally you want the speakers to be able to pinpoint the perceived location of various sounds both side-to-side and front-to-back. From a technical design perspective the relationship between the accuracy of the family of amplitude response curves and the imaging or soundstage is a know correlation. Axiom is quite sensitive to the perceived soundstage in our design criteria for the speakers.

HiFi and MidFi almost always relate back to price. Hence the Axiom products are referred to as MidFi because they are priced in that range. The most common mistake made is the belief that if the price is higher the quality of the performance is better. This is simply not the case, especially with speakers. It is very possible to spend 10 times the amount on one speaker over another and the one costing 10 times as much to have a lower performance quality. This is especially true if the more expensive speaker is targeting esthetic design criteria over performance criteria.


Ian Colquhoun
President & Chief Engineer

Ian Colquhoun
President & Chief Engineer