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Hey Paul. How ya'll doin'? Its been a long time since the Audiobytes party. LOL!

I'm sure the factory is swamped.

Holy cats Mojo...have you got a great memory! That was like 14 years ago or so and I would never have remembered your handle if you didn't mention it here.

I'm doin great thanks.

I just got off the phone with Axiom and yup, the uptake was bigger than anticipated, they are swamped, also ran out of b-stock so are making up new items for some of those orders and in some cases are waiting for parts.

That's pretty great of Axiom to honour b-stock orders with new.

Hard to beat their focus on customer service.

Cheers - p

You're gonna love your 160...and 500 too depending on room size.

Did you get the Boston Cherry 500 or Walnut Espresso?

I got Boston Cherry in both. All my other Axiom speakers are Boston Cherry.

EP500 adds a 2nd sub to my home theatre (have SVS PB10-ISD) to hopefully smooth out the base response through much of the seating area. If it doesn't as much as I hope it will, I'll probably move the SVS upstairs to add to M22's that I moved up to the family room.

With being at home so much as a result of COVID, I decided to reno our home theatre room with:
- new projector (an Epson 5050UB (awesome projector imo)...my old Mitsubishi 1000 finally died),
- 120" 1:2.35 screen (projected on the wall previously),
- swapped out the M22's with M80's for mains
- am swapping out an older VP150 for the VP160.
- the EP500
- an UHD Blu-ray (Panasonic DP-UB820), sadly my OPPO died a while back and wasn't crazy about CD's on the Xbox

Still got pair QS8's but added KEF speakers in the ceiling and lowered the QS8's to make it an Atmos 5.2.4 system. Oh yeah, also replaced Onkyo AV with new Denon AVRX4700h. I managed to track down what I think was the last AVRX4700h in Edmonton the day before Christmas...yah!!

I put in new trim, receptacles, repainted, ran most wiring through the drop ceiling and inside walls, put in overhead pot-type LED lights and a smart dimmer light switch so we can turn on/off the lights from the seating area so don't have to stumble in the dark to get the the wall switch once I turn off the projector.

It is coming together pretty nicely. Just waiting for the 2nd sub and new centre speaker.

The VP160 wasn't part of the plan but with trading in the vp150 and a vp100 together with the 20% off and loyalty discount... WOW I couldn't pass up such a great deal for a better matched centre speaker!

In fact most of the reno wasn't really the plan. It started with the Mitsubishi dying so needing to get a new projector (we don't have a TV elsewhere in the house) and let's upgrade from a wall to a proper screen. The rest was just the snowball effect of that leading to the next thing (a UHD blu-ray) and on it went with finishing off with "Holy crap look at the great deal Axiom is offering on b-stock and refurb's".

Lol

Great to hear you also got a great deal! Your room sounds like a good spot.

I guessed Axiom would be busy with those great offers.

Glad to hear everyone gets their order filled. Now I wont have to deathmatch against “The Great Mankini” lol.

Paul, it sounds like you're gonna enjoy good times! Very good call on the 160v4. The QS10s also made a big difference for me. Not sure you know, your Boston Cherry will be real wood veneer and not vinyl as in years past.

Real wood veneer? I did not realize that...cool...although i hope it isn't too obvious a difference from the rest of my speakers (esp. the M80's).

Paul, you can always trade those M80s in for real wood veneer.

You can do as I do if you are as mad as me. Mix the wood veneers. Why live with one veneer when there are so many to choose from. Walnut natural satin is my favorite, followed by cherry chestnut, walnut caramel, walnut espresso and then walnut bordeaux. I haven't made up my mind yet about boston cherry.

I ordered on the 25th, one pair of B stock and one new 21 day business day savings M5HPOW, they shipped on Thursday 14th, still in transit. supposed to arrive on the 18th now.