Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater ALMOST done - pics

Mike, the placement of the center was actually pretty easy based on the solution I chose. Simply drilled holes for 4 bolts and mounted onto a stud. Since I'm 6' 3" & the mount isn't very high and the speaker only weighs 46 lbs, once I got the mount up, lifting the speaker wasn't bad. Again, I shamelessly stole the idea from a picture I saw of the solution. Love how it looks like it's floating; especially when only the sconces are on and they are dimmed.

Ray - Everything looks GREAT ! The best part, you got the room done just in time for golf season ...

Ray, that is some beautiful Home Theater you have there. I don't have a basement in my place, and none of the rooms in this place really lends itself to a HT set up. But, I've been puttering ...

My Home Theater room is my bedroom. A huge Mitsubishi 65" Diamond projector HD TV, a modified Axiom made Merak MC6H center channel speaker with a modified supertweeter, a pair of Thiel CS 3.6s up front (look like teleport pods from The Fly, a pair of M50 like Michaura M66 in the side surround positions, a pair of M22 like Michaura M55s in back surround duty (QS8s still in a box), an SVS 20-39 sub, 3 Yamaha M80 amps, an Onkyo Integra M504 for the side surround speakers, Toshiba SD9200 DVD Audio and the Integra DTC 9.4.





Sounds great.

My home office HT system, the wonderful Sony TAE9000ES processor (VER 2.50), Anthem PVA5 5 channel amplifier, Sony DVP S7000 DVD/CD, Michaura M665 towers, Merak MC634 with Axiom 6.5" drivers, Reference 3a de capo mm tweeter and cross over, Jensen paper/oil cap, Caddock resistor, supertweeter with Audiocap theta cap, Klipsch LF10 sub, and beneath it, the Dahlquist PDQ1500 subwoofer, Mission DS77 surround speakers (terrific).





Recreation Room has a 2 channel system, waiting for Plasma. T-Amp (modified), Pyramid power supply, Michaura M55 speakers, Velodyne CHT10 subwoofer, Ah! Njoe Tjoeb tube output CDP, Denon TU 800? (don't remember) tuner. Sounds Great.



2 channel system in living room. Antique Sound Labs MG S1 15DT, Sony CX90ES CD changer, Axiom M2e's, Vance Dickerson Titanic subwoofer, getting set up.



Garage System
Wonderful Kenwood KA9100 amp, Kenwood KT8005 tuner, Sony CA9ES carousel, Kenwood SW300 sub with Vance Dickerson 10" driver.



Got music.

Thanks Craig! The golf thing is what was driving me towards the end; I want to be done with the room so golf doesn't suffer. Just for a little icing on the cake, I worked a deal for a used golf cart from the folks who supply them to my club and will take delivery in the next week or so. Now I can play golf and come home to the music/movies.

2X6 - nice setups! You appear to have the same issue I did - nowhere to set up a HT rig and do a little entertaining.

The golf thing is what was driving me towards the end; I want to be done with the room so golf doesn't suffer.
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Ray, if the room hadn't come this far already, I have a feeling it would be the one to suffer...not the golf!

Congratulations Ray !!! You have done a great job on the design and color chocies, I only wished I was as close to being completed as you are, must be nice to have the Rockets out of storage after this long, enjoy. {smile]

You have a lovely home, Ray. Thank you for sharing your pictures and wisdom.

Our family room is approximately that same shade of red. Love it.

Best wishes for many happy hours with your loved ones in that fantastic room.

What is the deal with all these former Axiom folks getting Rockets.

good question Randy !!!!!!! I was begining to wonder myself

Actually, Jack and I both posted back when to explain the switch to the Rockets. We both loved the Axioms (and still do) - they are a great value and deliver wonderful audio.

In short, Jack received a set of Rockets as a gift. I was visiting the weekend he got them and met the owner of av123. They are substantially more expensive than the Axioms and deliver a bit more audio. I love the furniture/wood finish of the Rockets and I was offered a price for the set of that I really couldn't pass up and , so I got them (getting an offer for my Axioms pushed me over the edge ). Plus, the 850s really face off against the M80s rather than the M60s, so it was also a quasi-upgrade.

Neither of us have ever spent time verbalizing a comparison because that would be an injustice to both sets. Each have their merits and they both deliver well beyond their price.