This stuff from Hugh is like what you read a lot in forums. A guy has a certain brand of speakers (or TV, DVD player, receiver, etc.) and every other brand is total crap in comparison. I love my Axiom's and they are a huge step up from the Bose cube speakers. But, I don't really have any other frame of reference to judge any other speakers by. Maybe the Paradigms are much better than Axioms, but I can't say since I haven't A/Bed them in my room. I did just recently got an Aperion set of speakers, but since they are not in the same room as my Axiom's I can't really say which speaker I like better. They just sound different. I really like how my Axioms sound in the home theater and really like how the Aperions sound in the other room with background music.

- Nick