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I'll ask the question.

If you take the drivers out of my M80s and put then in a $5000 cabinet, will they sound better? And conversely take the drivers from the $5000 cabinet and put then in my M80 cabinet, will they sound worse?

Only if you read some of the other AVS forums.

>>If you take the drivers out of my M80s and put then in a $5000 cabinet, will they sound better? And conversely take the drivers from the $5000 cabinet and put then in my M80 cabinet, will they sound worse?

I'm assuming we ignore things like ports and crossovers being tuned for the drivers each speaker is designed for... if the ports and crossovers magically changed to be correct for the new drivers I imagine the sound would be slightly different but hard to peg as "better or worse".

I bet the $5000 cabinet would have real nice wood veneer though

Maybe,....if it were that easy!

My take on the whole thing is that Axiom takes relatively inexpensive but well engineered drivers and places them in relatively inexpensive but well engineered cabinets intended exclusively for those relatively inexpensive but well engineered drivers(whew)and adds relatively inexpensive but well engineered crossover networks that mates the relatively inexpensive but well engineederd drivers perfectly with those relatively inexpensive but well enginered drivers and cabinets.

And then tests the poop right outtavum and gets them fine tuned thru double blind testing via processes developed at NRC.

Then, thanks to a relatively low overhead, and common sense in pricing, is able to sell them at a very competative price!

Did I miss anything?




....so I went to the Honda dealer to get new front brakes for my Jeep, but they don't work quite so well

>> I bet the $5000 cabinet would have real nice wood veneer though <<

A 'fine piano finish' ... as my dealer likes to say regarding the 5k and up speakers.

Yep...a piano or high gloss finish can add a substantial about to the cost of a speaker for sure, but in my opinio, it can be worth the cost if you also look at the speakers a fine piece of furniture. when added to a room that is not a dedicated HT area.

I'm not trying to peddle Aperion, but my center channel has a beautiful black piano finish on it, and the price was not significant.