As far as I know the difference between custom finishes and stock finishes is that Axiom routinely builds speakers with the stock finishes, prefabricates stacks of MDF sheets with the stock vinyl, and loads multiple speakers onto a single big panel of pre-vinyl'ed MDF, while custom finishes have to be made as-ordered and so lose a lot of production efficiencies. The custom-ness probably implies some extra care throughout the process ("don't put your coffee on that M60, it's a custom order ) or we would see Factory Outlet speakers with custom finishes more often.


M60ti, VP180, QS8, M2ti, EP500, PC-Plus 20-39
M5HP, M40ti, Sierra-1
LFR1100 active, ADA1500-4 and -8