I agree. Looking at the specs of the Accend towers and the Axiom M80 the M80s actually best the Accends. So maybe they're not as good a deal as I would have thought from a budget speaker company.
Looking at the frequency graphs of both the M80s also look smoother, just sayin.
Measurements are easily manipulated and Axiom doesn't give you the detail of measurements that Ascends does. Not a fair comparison. Ascend's actually gives you off axis response and waterfall curves and they use 50dB scale. The Axiom measurement is a 120dB scale and only on-axis!