Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Very Confused...need advice on Speaker upgrade ($600)

so, can I say that these are all in the same "level" pretty much?

if so, I would love to see if there are any swan owners around here so I can listen to them....I live in Miami Florida

You might have a tough time finding Swans on an Axiom forum.You should try Audioenvy .We also have a list of Axioms for audition Here .

Man, those Swans are pretty.

It looks like Swans Speakers is now operating in California and is wholly-owned by the driver manufacturer, which is based in China.

Their website is interesting. Perhaps they should consider using something besides babelfish to translate it into English. For example (and I am not making this stuff up):

"6-inch long stroke high power loudspeaker unit supplies surging ultra-bass."

"There are electrical source, input of sound resource on back panel, connection point of satellite speaker and some adjust knobs. When turn on it, the red light on back panel will be lighting."

"With exquisite appearance, line controlling series on audio frequency holding wire as same as a small boat."

"There is a circular switch on the top of it, when press it can make M-20L locate in the situation of static sound. With wonderful feeling, the knob in the front of line controlling can use to adjust volume."

"The circuit design of M-20L is concise and tidy; various of segments are arranged together tidily."

"No matter you listen CD music, DVD film, play game or download MP3 by computer, sound revivification through computers are always the basic part. With the development of modern sound card technology, improve better and better for high quality sound card. Care only cost but sound quality multimedia speaker cannot catch the development step for modern sound card, and it is doom to be the bottleneck of the development of multimedia, which results that there is no connection between multimedia speaker and fidelity.For the purpose of breaking the ice, Swans Group put out M-200 through 2 years' hard work. We put multimedia speaker into a situation of HI-fi confidently."

All your base are belong to us!

Wait, wait, one more...

"There is no volume adjusting knob for bass artillery, which is controlled by a outward line has a big static sound button, if you touch it, then sudden quiet."

I'm going to go translate that site into Redneck right now!

I thought he was talking about these Swan speakers .

Same thing, Rick. Audio Insider is the North American internet sales outlet for them (and that site does the translations much better).

Gotcha Tom,if that is the case I dunno.It seems most of there stuff is out of stock,that can't be good.

Is it just me, or do the Swans look like they get their cabinets from the same place as Rockets ?

First of all, of all the speakers you refer to, I have only listened to the Axiom M50s. Like Right Now, I just finished listening to "Monsters Inc." for the first time on the M50s after upgrading from Axiom M3s.

My advice to you is simple-The M50s are in your price range: BUY THESE SPEAKERS!!! I bought the M50s because I moved into a larger house and had to replace my beloved M3s, that I'd had for quite a few years, and felt that they were going to be my "Speakers For Life". At any rate after lots of study I purchased Axiom M50s; the more I listen to them, the more I like them-Even Better Than My M3s!!!

My WIFE, for cryin' out loud, remarked yet again, on how much better the M50s sounded on home theater! (I know, she's my wife and her prime goal in life is to influence my thoughts on Every Subject, but this time she agrees with me!)

I realise I'm not answering any of your questions, although I asked a lot of the same questions that you are asking before I bought my first Axioms some time ago.

So, do the axiom M50s sound like the 603s? I Dunno.
I would suggest the 30 free trial, but the return shipping would be a killer if you didn't like them. Then again, if you love the 603s and they are the same price....

Just consider this an unsolisited testimonial from a happy Axiom owner who just happened to enjoy an animated movie with his family and simply had to comment on it to somebody.

Happy Hunting'
Rich.

I'm gonna have to go back and do some re-researching, but I was under the impression that Swan had some problems a few years back about their tweeter arangement being just a bit to close to another popular speaker manufacturer who chose to be somewhat protective of their signature design, and there may have even been a hint of litigation in the works. I then thought that I'd read somewhere that Swan backed away and went so far as to change their name to "Rocket" Or, something like that or not at all like that.

It happened right after that speaker face-off between the Axiom M3, the Swan Diva, and the Marble gem from Siam.