I am very happy with my Axiom speakers. Many of my friends now also have Axioms. I have posted here for almost 10 years. Those are my bona fides.
This message board is the public voice of the community of owners of Axiom speakers. I think Axiom has become associated with a narrow and particular point of view regarding disputed audio matters.
What is disputed?
Instead of open discourse we have a situation where a few people have really taken over this site.
What is your definition of open discourse? To me, it seems similar to what some would want for our schools, that we should "teach the controversy" and allow creationism to be taught as science along with evolution in schools.
They enforce a particular and narrow point of view by ridicule, sarcasm, shunning (coke/pepsi) and arrogant pronouncements. They deride and are intolerant of other points of view.
Where is the derision? I think you imbue some of the words you read with more than is really there. As to shunning, I happen to know that a number of regulars added you to their ignore list today. They cannot respond to what they no longer see. I could easily do the same -- I can understand why others chose to -- but I haven't and probably won't.
I think this discourages people who come to this site to find out more about Axiom speakers.
I haven't seen any new posters leave in disgust. You're making things up. Almost everyone goes out of their way to help newcomers.
It seems to me that this site should be open to people who are interested in audio, and in Axiom speakers and how they play with other equipment. They deserve a warm welcome.
As I said before, people go out of their way to help newcomers. If someone asks about tubes, there are enough regulars who own tube gear to provide that information. When JonhK posts to try to steer someone away from tubes, he does it in a matter of fact way. He does not deride the person.
You have a right to post your opinions. Those who disagree with you have just as much right to post theirs.
Nobody has the right to freedom from being offended.
In closing, I'll just leave these here.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-- Aldous Huxley
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-- Philip K. Dick
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.-- Carl Sagan
The good thing about science is that it's true whether you believe in it or not.-- Neil deGrasse Tyson
