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

Awesome and you said you skipped your place in line.
Hope they make your M2 even more glorious.

Thank you for the sentiment, Brendo. I've been very curious about this sub. The reviews of the pre-v4 were mixed leaning towards not satisfied. Unfortunately when most review on this site, they don't make it clear what version they are referring to so I have to find out for myself about v4. I bought them because I trust Andrew has optimized the design given the constraints he had to work within. I've also been so satisfied with all v4 so far that I did not care to look elsewhere. That satisfaction extends to the real wood finish.

FedEx has informed me the subs will arrive on Tuesday rather than Wednesday. This is a very good thing because my Wednesday is packed with meetings and I may not have time to prevent the FedEx driver from lofting my subs onto my driveway.

We probably should all build something like a SpaceX drone ship in our driveway to give the couriers something to aim at. It would be nice to buy something and have it get a soft landing just once.

The new Axiom packaging is nice, but I think the couriers use the bands to give each speaker a "helicopter ride" and build up some speed before they release it in the general direction of your house.

Didn't sleep a wink last night. I kept nightmaring about the FedEx dudes. In one, they took the 8" albino drivers out of the cherry chestnut 125s and used them as dartboards. In another, they used the cabinets for bean bog toss.

The new 125s are here! The new 125s are here!

And nary a scratch on their containers. All my fears were for naught. BTW, Axiom has beefed up the strapping. Two more horizontal straps around the main body of the packaging. I think Rich may have suggested that. They came in good and tight!

They are GORGEOUS!!!

Cherry Chestnut. Trapezoidal. Albino 8" v4 driver in all of its die cast glory. And v4 amp.

Awesome. I'd like to know how they perform. Let me know how a single performs in a smaller room if you can.

Today and tomorrow I am swamped with meetings. But I want to get the word out for all those who may be considering 125s.

I have them in 2.2, music only, in a 1920 cu ft living room in conjunction with M2OW. The living room is open to the rest of the house. I have no bass management other than the bass control on my Chromecast Audio and bass control on my Pioneer. Each of them is being fed from the Pioneer pre-amp outs (left out to left sub and right out to right sub). I have them set to 80Hz cross-over which is just perfect for all Axiom on-walls.

They are tight, smooth, totally musical. They put my previous (cheap) subs to shame. One is a Yammie and the other is a Sony (that I heavily modified to make sound better). Links below.

Charles, one for my room would be no problem. Plenty of tight, clean power. I have each of them set to 4 on the dial and have the bass cut to my M2OW so as not to tax the mid-woofer. Bass management of course would be better but you know what? I don't need it. Everything that is well-recorded plays full but tight and controlled.

Damn, Victor Wooten sounds so awesome. Kraftwerk, Dan Fogelberg, Yazoo, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers...all full, tight, nice mid-bass and controlled lows even at volumes that I'd never play. The new subs have made a previously good presentation even better. Now it just sounds so much cleaner and tactile.

Screw M5s and EP500s. Just go M2s and 125s for music. LOL!

I plan on taking them downstairs and comparing with my dual 500s.

https://www.amazon.ca/Yamaha-Corporation-America-SW315-Subwoofer/dp/B00009W8XH

http://www.audioreview.com/product/speakers/subwoofers/sony/sa-wm40.html

They are getting more articulate as I play them. I'm listening to Clapton's Change the World and it has such a wonderful pop and articulation. Incredible how much I was missing with my previous set-up. But I knew that.