Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners BIC DV62 CLR-S or VP100/150 as center

If you run a home test, you shouldn't have to sell back the BIC's via eBay. Just confine your purchasing to an online retailer that takes returns. I think etronics has a 30-day return policy -- I know I've seen the BIC's for sale somewhere with a return policy. Though granted, eBay may be just as easy to deal with.

It would be surprising (shocking) if the VP 150 didn't blow away the BIC, but it'd still be interesting to learn what they sound like.

Birdman

Mozone, it's just that some lines of speakers are wildly inconsistent from one model to the next, in part because the companies don't do controlled anechoic measurements coupled with double-blind listening tests as Axiom does.

I recall a press demo in the '90s of four new bookshelf speaker models from a huge mainstream US speaker manufacturer (not Bose). Each model sounded entirely different from the next. There was only one that was relatively uncolored and natural, and it wasn't the costliest. At the time, I recall thinking, "Don't they listen to these blind before they put them on the market??" The truth of the matter is that many companies do not, which may explain why BIC may have produced a good-sounding center through sheer chance.

I've not heard it, so I can't tell you.

As to some of the Merak horn-loaded models, they were pretty good, but didn't have the same neutrality as the better Axiom non-horn-loaded speakers.

Regards,

don't refund, if it's not as good, treat it as a rear channel. Its cheaper than one M2