Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater After 20 years I've decided to upgrade!!!

Yeah, I'll wait until Blu-ray. I never watched the animated series. Was it worthwhile? I heard good things about it, but I never looked into it.

I can understand not wanting to wait, but the M60s are worth the wait.


Let the upgraditis begin!

Aww, that's not nice. Let him get his speakers first, then we'll start in on him.

I'm already wondering what the neighbours will think!
Most of my system is under a year old and I'm already considering getting rid of my Yamaha receiver for one that decodes newer audio formats like Dolby Digital TrueHD and with newer HDMI like 1.3a (currently have 1.2a). Also looking at getting a BlueRay player soon.

I'm doing the best I can budget for, but as we all know with regards to technology, what was expensive last year becomes cheaper (and in some cases) "obsolete" the next!

I bought an older refurb Sherwood newcastle receiver for that exact reason. I figure with the next round of receiver releases, the new audio codecs won't command quite the same premium.

Puralator delivered my sub today (Friday). They said because they didn't have room on their truck, that I'd have to wait until Monday for the rest!!! That's what's called "overnight" delivery when you live out in the sticks!!!!

80'sMan,

As long as the Yamaha can accept pcm 7.1 you will be fine with a lot of Blu-ray players. Many Blu-ray players will decode the audio and send it as pcm to the receiver. Since this is what the receiver would do anyway there is not going to be any difference. The PS3 will do this and is probably the best buy for Blu-ray players anyway. I say save your money and not upgrade your new receiver if you can.

- Nick

Yet another Albertan Axiomite, welcome to the family.

You have neighbors in Hardisty? Huh, who knew.

Sorry for replying after quite a bit of time. I've been busy re-watching many of my movies. All I can say is "WOW!!!"
OK, ok, maybe I can say something else, like, "Why did I wait so long?!?!?!"

After setting up the speakers with my Yamaha receiver's YPAO and a little more tweaking with the sub, I'm am totally impressed and it was worth every penny. The speakers sure have good weight to them too. Even the little surrounds feel solid.
Besides the subwoofer's obvious impact, I was really suprised what a good, proper, center channel makes! Before I had decent towers (DbPlus 990's), a so-so sub, tiny surrounds, and the 51" TV's speaker for a center channel.

I know, I know. I was thinking the same as you . . . "Oh YUCK!!!". That's why, after like 3 months of research and listening to speakers at the usual stores and dealers, I went with Axiom. Ironically even though I never heard them before!!! There was a lot of talk on other forums from people who did the same as I, and after they got their Axiom's, they were not disappointed. Well, after rolling the dice with an educated guess, I must say I am also NOT disappointed.

A big thing for me is that they are Canadian speakers. This is important to me. I really like the other Canadian speakers that I've owned (the old Db's were also Canadian) or heard. Honestly, I almost bought PSB's!!! They were a darn close 2nd. But the value for the $$$ advantage went to Axiom.

Sorry for the long winded reply. I'm just totally thrilled.

PS; I literally had a tear welling up in my eye listening to my house take a serious pounding watching the movie U-571!!!

80'sman, I have to admit, I had a similar thing happen. It was the first time I watched the Battle of Pelenor field scene from ROTK and I heard the huge elephants off in the distance. the pounding almost so low I couldn't hear it, but boy could i feel it. I giggled like a little kid, it was so involuntary.