I am betting my left 'nad the passive LFRs you heard at Axiom suffered from position error or were connected wrong or both.
Or your bias is showing. The one assumption you keep leaving out of your explanations.
Occam's razor.
As for the OM-5, Andrew did the best he could but he didn't have the benefit of a DSP. Even if he had a DSP at that time, he likely would not have been given the resources to leverage it. I'd bet my right 'nad the images from them are fuzzy relative to the LFR.
Your assumption again is that without a DSP a speaker design could not possibly produce a similar sound. You haven't heard the OM5s so making that assumption is again showing your bias towards your favorite speaker.
