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Hi Mojo.

$375 savings when they started the project. I'm guessing this savings is from original price once they are fully priced by October.

Hi AquaT. Yes, I agree with that.

I thought it was gracious of Axiom to give us free wood tops and discounts on the accessories.

13% tax, and higher prices for wood top/battery.

It's another +$150 for me now for the speaker, wooden top and 9hr battery - so I'm out. I was on the fence about it anyways. I would have liked to try it for my own use of course but I think we could use these at work at as well. My department buys all the A/V stuff for our University. Something like this would be good for people to take out and use in small rooms. All wireless, multiple users connect to it with their phones etc. All things harder to accomplish with a PA system or setting up speakers/mixers.

Andrew or Ian, can you reveal a bit more info:

- At 1:20 into the video, I spied an inverted dust cap on the woofer. At other parts of the video, I saw the regular dust cap. I'm excited at the prospect of an inverted dust cap because, if properly accounted into the design, we can expect greater linearity without a sacrifice in bass extension.

- At 1:38, I spied cast baskets. Is this for real?

- At 2:34, we see the chrome grill. At 1:05 and 3:03, we see the black grill. The drivers are clearly visible through the black grill but apparently not the chrome grill. Although I like the chrome grill, visibility of the drivers is more important to me than grill color. Based on the video, I would go with the black grill. Can you comment on my observations?

- Is the grill removable? Like Vlad says, the dominant aesthetic feature of the industrial design is the grill BUT my Axioms sound distinctly better to me and others with the grill removed. I don't know if that will be the case with the AxiomAir or if the industrial design relies on the grill for structural integrity but I had to ask.

- How much dynamic headroom can we expect? The Kickstarter page suggests 5 x 150W. Is this for real? If so, is this headroom available from AC and battery power?

I don't know how others feel about this. I am not opposed to swapping out hardware if there are problems provided it's relatively easy to do so and the packaging is not compromised in the retrofit. If it's not easy, I'd prefer a delay in shipping to ensure robustness.

I had the same thought.

As for the price, it's really tough to swallow $900Can for this. I know it's not the same as the competition but the vast majority out there, like OakvilleMatt said, can't differentiate. The only way to drive down cost is through volume. Axiom needs quantities of 10,000 units per year to eliminate price barriers.

Is there easy access to physically get to the Pi if needed (for maint / upgraded units etc)?

Is anyone using Rdio?

http://www.shaw.ca/rdio/?utm_source=big-picture&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Stream%2BRdio%2Bon%2BCanada%27s%2Blarges&utm_content=Text%2BLink&utm_campaign=big-picture-2015-07&emid=em-2015-07-16-bp-L11

So it seems this thread is dead since the Kickstarter finished. A shame as I had a few questions that went unanswered which is part of the reason why I kept delaying the purchase to the point where I stupidly missed it. It seems like nobody else's Q's are being answered either?

Everyone at Axiom is busy working on the Air. They're building in the high power drivers with inverted dust caps, making sure it has a million hours MTBF, dynamic headroom of 5 times continuous power and less than 1 femtovolt of ripple on the power supply rails. Oh...and a subwoofer output on the Air gateway.

I wouldn't mind some opinions on this either.
The option for Rdio just came up on our Sonos the other day, that i noticed anyway.