Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Out with the old and in with the new

One of my buddies was listening to my M100s over the weekend and found the soundstage to be too wide. His brain was over-whelmed with the instrument separation. LOL! He sent me a message this morning to say he was listening to the same songs with his KEFs and couldn't hear anything like that. The instruments sounded mixed together rather than nicely separated. He was wondering which presentation was correct. I said whichever you like better. For me, the v4 is superior for my tastes.

Coolness,
Have heard a lot of good regarding most KEF models reviews.

Is the room his KEFs are in much smaller than yours? Maybe to small for similar sound stage?
With all Axiom speakers being reference grade, not overly surprising that your M100s would give more detailed separation of tracks.
With my M80s and a bad recording it's almost like a really lazy Les Paul went and layered tracks together and you can separate them so easily they don't even sound layered anymore.

His room is half the width and 3/4 the length. He's got them smooshed against the side walls and back wall. I've tried placing them in various, impractical positions and have managed to separate instruments along the width somewhat but nowhere the degree that I can with M5s and M100s. I have never been able to get any depth.

Almost every recording sounds good with the M5/Pioneer combo. I can't say that with the M100/Onk combo. The culprit is the Onk because swapping to the Pioneer, I get similar performance as the M5s.

I had a group of Spaniards over earlier this week. They had never heard speakers except in public venues and their TVs. There is much I can say about their surprise and shock as they listened to my main system. The one thing I will never forget is how two of them got up and walked behind the M100s to meet the images that were there. They were shocked to not only discover there were no images from that vantage point but also no drivers in the back either. Being engineers, they wanted to know how this could possibly be. When I told them about the curves and our hearing, some of them clued in and realized how much work it must have taken to make the M100s sound the way they do.

Wahahahahaha! I have 100 lbs of toroids, capacitors and ADA muscle coming. It will be driver-melting mayhem soon!

Congrats, Mojo!

Thanks Charles. How hard should I drive those ADAs?

Uhh... to where you get an emotional response?

That would be all the way! The M5s and M100s are gonna come unglued. I'm gonna ignite the M3s with the 1500 just for shits and giggles. You'll see the smoke trails all the way to your place. I might vaporize the audiobytes too!

They're HERE!