I understand your concern, I to posted the same question a few months ago, but purchasing these speakers was the best thing I could have done. My brother in law runs a local professional recording studio, and he loves B&W's, but once he listened to my setup, and I told him what they cost, he is having second doubts on my he spent so much on his configuration.
Check out this link below, it is from Chesseroo, one of our members, he recently went on a plant tour. It is possible the woofers and tweeters are manufactured elsewhere, like most speaker mfg's, but all mfg/testing/research and specification requirments are done at Axiom.
http://www.axiomaudio.com/boards/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=first&Number=41458&page=&view=&sb=&o=
just do it, you'll luv em, like we all do....
