Re: The Agony of VaSSallo Speaker Damage
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Joined: Jan 2008
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old hand
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old hand
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WOW....I am glad it is working out. I though I had really bad luck with purolator...until I read your post.
Thumbs up for Axiom's Customer service!!!
An amateur built the Ark. Some professionals built the Titanic. But Noah took a little advice.
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Joined: Feb 2004
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devotee
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devotee
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Glad to hear things are all back to happy!
I ordered my Axiom's back in July of 2003, they came about 2.5-3 weeks later in the charcoal custom finish. They were all double boxed back then, even my M60's. I also ordered a bunch of cables, which showed up very thoroughly packed in their 9 little boxes :).
My SVS sub arrived on it's own shipping pallet @_@ oh my.
5 Years later (already? @_@) they all sound lovely, I can't wait to buy more Axiom speakers for my computer when it gets put in a separate room. One day, the in-walls will be all over my first house *dreams*
- D
"Big John is my Idol...or is it that other way around? Let's ask Ray!"
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Re: The Agony of VaSSallo Speaker Damage
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Joined: May 2008
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I ordered a VaSSAllo EP500 a few weeks ago and after reading this thread I must admit I was getting very anxious, since I live in the States.
Thinking I might avoid some delivery trauma, I made arrangements with FedEx to hold the shipment at the main Sacramento depot. I picked it up today, and to my dismay the box had a huge rip in the side. Fortunately the EP500 was intact, thanks in part to the nylon wrapping, though there was a lot of dirt and carboard debris inside the box. Glad I got the satin finish :-)
The cardboard seems to be of a similar grade as that used in the packaging I've seen for Taiwanese computer cases, not what I'd expect for high-end audio equipment. The grade of cardboard seems too fragile for single boxing heavy speakers.
The upside is I was lucky, it survived and sounds magnificent. I primarily listen to music and the statements I've read regarding the articulation and musicality of their subwoofers seems to be on the money. Axiom also did a fantastic job matching the finish to my existing speakers.
Cheers,
Mark G.
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Re: The Agony of VaSSallo Speaker Damage
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Joined: Mar 2005
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axiomite
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Congrats Mark! Glad there was no damage done to the subwoofer.
*********** "Nothin' up my sleeve. . ." --Bullwinkle J. Moose
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Joined: Apr 2008
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Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) inside -- contains the toxin Mercury. If you drop or puncture this box, please do not breath the Mercury dust. If you think customs is a hassle now, try getting a hazmat through them :-/ Jim, how'd you know right off the bat that your M80's crossover was horqued?
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Re: The Agony of VaSSallo Speaker Damage
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Joined: Jul 2006
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Anthony,
The dual tweeters and dual mid-range speakers of my M80 were intermittently very noisy and periodically cut out completely but the dual 6.5 inch woofers were fine. At first I suspected a poor gold bridging bar connection, but it was solid. Then I removed the two gold bridging bars linking the two pairs of binding posts to isolate the woofer and midrange/tweeter sections. Checking the DC resistance with an ohmmeter, I found that the resistance of the woofer section was stable as expected but the DC resistance of the tweeter/mid-range section varied slowly (charging/discharging capacitor(s) in the crossover network.) Since all four speakers were periodically cutting out, I reasoned that the likely failure was the crossover network and not multiple speaker failures/multiple speaker interconnect failures. Axiom failure analysis confirmed that the crossover network was the problem.
Jim
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Re: The Agony of VaSSallo Speaker Damage
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shareholder in the making
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shareholder in the making
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good troubleshooting. Need an IT job in Virginia?
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Thanks for the job offer -- but with the cost of gas the commute from Philly to Virginia would be too expensive.
Jim
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