Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater THE DAY IS FINALLY HERE!!!!

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watching porn with your hands handcuffed to a chair

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Some may actually prefer it that way.

Or so I've heard.

From friends.

Well, a friend of a friend. . .

Never mind, I'm going back to the EP 600 thread.

I know that we arent going to here from this guy for a while...... Personal experience would tend to dictate that theory.

You would probably be right about not hearing from me for a while if I didnt have to work for a living. I was a little disapointed when I got home yesterday because there was a door tag hanging from my door knob. I left work early because on the fedex tracking site they had an estimated delivery time of 4:30 pm. I got home at 1 pm and was too late. They tried to deliver my speakers at 9am. I had to wait until 5:30 for the truck to get back to the station to get them but I picked them up yesterday evening. By the time I got back home it was nearly 7 pm. Traffic was a nightmare! So I got a late start hooking them up. I was able to get my VP150 center and 2 M60's hooked up and gave them a spin. WOW! I was truely amazed with the clarity and volume they were cabable of. I will post more in a seperate thread detailing my set up and impressions once im complete. For now I am pretty impressed. And oh by the way...I am an inspector by trade so I am pretty good at spotting defects. I bought my speakers from the F.O. store and I could not find even the slightest blemish. Beautiful speakers! Mansfield beech with black covers.

AWESOME!!!!
Congrats.... Now its time to pump some wattage....
Mansfield Beech with the Tan Grills here.....love em.

oh and yes....TRAFFIC....tell me about it. 60 miles one way to work from NJ to New York City....its a constant nightmare. But I do it.....knowing I have my axioms to listen to when I arrive back at the home...

-Tarun

glad to hear that you liked them. I plan on getting a seperate set of 60's myself down the road.

I am still waiting for mine..........

hmm...eventually when i move out of my parents house (17yrs old) ill get some m80's and use the m60's as rear surrounds....that should be sweeet

Glad you like em.

still never got mine. I'm so jealous right now. as of 8:52am this morning, the tracking shows they landed here in town. Killer is, nobody came to the house all day?????? Now that is irritating.

REALLY pisses me off. Killer is, there is no Fed Ex here, so it's handled by another courier. otherwise I would just find them, and get it myself.

Guess tomorrow is the lucky day....hopefully. What is amazing is that my M80's were shipped on a Friday, just like this shipment, and they got here on Monday dinner time. a couple little qs8's and a vp-150 takes two extra days? strange.

I thought I'd comment here opposed to starting a new thread - I had them for a whole 8 hours before I went nuts with the fact that I couldn't use them.

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[02:40:58] <Thasp> My hifi has arrived
[02:41:02] <Thasp> only the speakers, though.
[02:41:20] <Thasp> I am impatient. so I took an 11 year old tape player from kmart, and attempted to hook it up.
[02:42:01] <Thasp> yet the cables are bananas. so I took RCA interconnects that came with my MP3 player, and an old ethernet cable, cut them up into speaker cables, and have it hooked up to my mp3 player.
[02:42:23] <Thasp> the speaker "stands" are the boxes they came in. this is uber-ghetto

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I now use the boxes as a stand for the "receiver" that weighs less than a quart of milk and have the speakers on some "stands" that were in the garage(25 year old wood contraptions that were used as a magazine stand or a chair of some sort.. I can't really tell). I had the "receiver" thing from the 11 year old kmart tape player on top of the boxes so the wiring would reach from there to the speakers. The cables are an old piece of ethernet wiring and the other RCA interconnects I cut up into speaker cables that came with my old MP3 player.

The cheap interconnects connecting my source to the tape player amp thing cost more than the stands for the tape player thing, the speaker wire, and the rest of the setup but the speaks. I should have my "real" equipment in a week along with a nice HSU sub.

So far, they sound great. When I first heard them, it was only one speaker attached. It took so long for me to get the wires cut right that I had to hear how one sounded before I went back to work with scissors and a boxcutter. I compared it to the other speaker attached to it by using the balance control, playing recordings that were somewhat even across the left and right channels. Even though the Axioms are sensitive, the one that came with the tape player went well over twice as loud at the same volume level. Yet it was so unbalanced.. and the m22tis had such a deeper bass.

I can't play it loud yet(nor will I try to with such a pea sized trashy amp), but they sound awesome. I thought they were loud, yet when I went into another room they were very low. Usually, the music is very loud in the other room when using something like the TV or a boombox as my speakers because they have to be loud for everything to come out - not the case with the Axioms.

They never blew me away. This is a good thing however. Everything sounds balanced and like it should. If this is the first speaker you're hearing in a long time(this was the case for me), they definately won't blow you awau. Once you get used to these, everything else will have too much/little treble, midrange, midbass.. etc.

I know how ya feel..... nose to the glass and all. I'm waiting on M60Ti's, VP150 and QS8's. Should be here on Thursday. Now I'm wishing I had Friday off from work, LOL