I have been looking for a 5.1 home theater setup. I have a sub so I really only need the 5. I have been very interested in trying one of two internet companies that I always see. They both have great forums and all of the users on both forums love the speakers. Obviously one company is axiom audio the other is aperion audio can anyone give me any advice. Have you listened to both (M50v2 vs Intimus 533t). Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
My advise would be, get Axiom
I've heard better things about Axiom, Ascend Acoustics, and Rocket than Aperion, but I've only personally heard Axiom and Rockets. I think it's fairly obvious which brand I prefer.
I too, have heard better things about Rockets and Axiom than Aperion.
Just prior to Christmas, I was in a fellow's basement HT room with Aperion bookshelf 5.1 speakers and a really nice 100+ inch projection setup. He had them calibrated by the adio video shop so surround effects were quiet smooth and apparent and overall they sounded quiet good with the HD-DVD version of King Kong he had in. Unfortunately, He played them way too loud. Painfully loud!!!
They did pretty good staying clear in the high frequencies (if anything, the high frequencies were over-emphasized) with the loudness but after I actually asked him to turn them down (never did that before to anyone) I found that they were just not sounding quiet right. The highs were still very detailed, lows seemed good but that seemed mostly attributed to the subwoofer (not an Aperion by the way, Paradigm I think) but the mid range seemed weak, almost blurry. Maybe I had just gone partially deaf from his attempts to impress me with loudness in his fairly small room.
All kidding aside, I do actually think that I wasn't hearing what I should, because he played them way too loud at first. All I can say for sure is that they did a good job of high frequency detail in movies, but under the circumstances, they certainly didn't sound as good overall, as my Axioms.
Before it is brought up... add to that it wasn't a side by side, double blind, listening test and so on..... He also didn't know if the installer ran any sort of EQ settings that might be influencing the sound. (The highs did seem very over emphasized. which led to initial impressiveness on the detail but later concern on the mid range clarity.)
Due to the conditions, I obviously can't say for certain, but it is my gut feel that if you were to turn off subwoofers (since his wasn't a matching brand to fairly compare to) that my Axiom system would have easily come out on top.
Throw the EP 500 back into the mix vs. his Paradigm sub and Axiom wins hands down. Although I do think he ended up with a very good sounding system for the money he paid and I gave him Kudos where they were due for a nice sounding system that beat the CRAP out any of the HTIB systems.
I'd really like to go back or better yet, have a go at them, head to head.