Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners M50 to M5HP upgrade expectations

Mike, I can't speak for your M50v2 but I have the M50v4 as I said before and I love it. I also love the M5 which is higher fidelity and resolution. It's quite incredible how both of them can be so satisfying.

Do try to drop the tweeters of the M5 below ear level and you will be rewarded.

Mojo, fidelity and resolution are definitely my goal, and it was your exceptional ability to describe these speakers, and your advice, that pulled the trigger. These M5's will flank a bay window, like yours. There is an identical window at the opposite end of the room through which I expect to see the acoustic images floating.

Well, unfortunately my speakers have been stuck in Tennessee since the 16th on some crazy customs hold. It started out with Fedex calling me asking me all kinds of crazy questions. They even wanted me to explain what materials the speakers were made out of. I referred them back to Axiom who, from what I understand, answered all their questions yet the speakers are still sitting in Tennessee. I live in New Jersey. This is my 4th Axiom order and I've never had an issue before this. Hopefully they will arrive sometime this week.

That's crazy, Mike. I'm in VA and mine come through Tennessee too and I've yet to have any issue other than FedEx forgetting to scan the boxes for tracking updates. Do you still have the contact number for FedEx?

My M5s will be going through there soon. I hope I don't run into the same issue.

I do still have the Fedex phone number, maybe I should call since I am basing this info on the tracking number updates. I contacted Axiom again yesterday morning and they said they would look into it. I was originally scheduled for delivery last Friday.

I'm curious what else they would think it possibly could be. Certainly not the first time they've had Axiom speakers shipped through there.

I've had problems like that before. One where a shipment of about 12 speakers took about a month and a half to start trickling in ... it took many calls to FedEx and Axiom to figure out what was going on. Something about being on International hold till the paper work on what was in the boxes is received/found. Axiom gave me the impression that this was not the first time (Deb didn't sound happy). Anyway after many more calls with FedEx (each about an hour of frustration, probable reason of Axiom unhappiness) ... I'd receive a few boxes a week until there was only one out in the wild ... After what I remember being more then a month ... FedEx decided that maybe a trace was in order. Eventually it was declared forever lost in the Bermuda Triangle of FedEx International holding.

Now I just pray whenever my boxes head through FedEx International that they find their way and not be trapped forever circling in ice encrusted foggy waters searching for a way out.

I'm sure they will show up day now ...

ha ... another FedEx story ...
On one shipment, received tracking email "delivery tomorrow by 8pm, signature required". Ok, So I stuck around and mid day I get another email. "exception: delivery tomorrow by 8pm, signature required". And again I stuck around ... and another email "exception: delivery tomorrow by 8pm, signature required". And I'm like to hell with this and go about my normal day .. well that email came everyday for like a week and a half at which time an email came "delivered, signed for by owner". I opened the door and there it was ... wonder who signed for it

I kind of think of FedEx tracking email as an indication of best intent ... sometimes ...
What gets me is when you get an email "exception: package not delivered, owner not home" ... when you were ...

This happened enough that once I saw the FedEx truck drive up, so I open the door and stood there waiting. The truck stayed there for a few minutes and then turned around and left. A minute later I receive an email "exception: package not delivered, owner not home".