Just need high octane Fred much easier to stay naturally asperated with the fish.
I think it might just be certain channels. I was all excited to crank up Terminator: Salvation the other night too and it was all muted, as if the cable company was trying to spare my neighbors. Sounded like crap, like I was listening through a closed door.
Trying to use cable/satelitte feeds for quality testing is not wise, they compress the signal so badly that it is amazing anything looks or sounds remotely as it should.
Seriously, I've just been blown away by the price of these speakers compared to their performance............ I've heard better, but that was all very expensive stuff in very well-appointed rooms. And it wasn't all that much better. I can only imagine what these or the M80s sound like in a perfectly set up room.
This is precisely what we say on the forum all the time, Axiom's are not the best(this is far too much of a listener preference anyway) but are generally regarded as the best bang for the buck.
