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I have had an ongoing affair with Axiom Audio for over two decades now. Even when I have let them for another (B&W, Tannoy, Revel, JBL, Klipsch, Buchardt, Dynaudio, KEF, Paradigm, Tekton, Zu, Wharfedale... you get the idea) I always come back home to Axiom. They win out every time.
They are a great speaker and a great company as well.
The M80 is a seriously good speaker that I would place in the company of a $6,000 to $10,000 speaker any day.
Grab a pair - any pair really - they are THAT GOOD!
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Steve Dufour
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I recommend this product
Wonderful sound! Now I need to listen to all my old records, for the first time!me! 5 people found this helpful
I had some great M60Ti Millennia that I bought used.
Taking advantage of the Early Black Friday sale, I bought M80v4 in black oak. I was expecting an improvement over my 21 years old M60.
But I wasn't prepared for this difference!
Those beautiful beast are amazing! The bass is deep and strong making me discovering all the low frequencies I was missing. The soundstage is wide and deep. The listening window is wider giving an impressive experience even if you are not perfectly centered in between the speakers.
Mids and highs are nicely balanced. I think the tweeters are smoother than expected and in the positive way. You can listen those speakers at high volume without fatigue. I sometime take a look at my amp reading and realized how high the sound level is! Since a hooked these loudspeakers, I do nothing of my spare time other than listening to music and rediscovering my collection of LP.
Source: Rega P3/AT-VM95ML, Moon 110LPv2 into a Cambridge Audio Azur 851A hooked to the speakers with Axiom speaker cable.
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Richard Ridgeway
I recommend this product
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For years I've enjoyed the sound of these powered by a NAD C372 integrated amplifier (170 Wpc into 8 Ohms) and a NAD 500 W subwoofer in a 4,500 cubic ft room. I recently replaced the amplifier with a NAD Masters M33 BluOS Streaming DAC Amplifier (380 W into 4 ohms). The subwoofer has yet to be re-connected because the most noticeable improvement in sound was in the bass response WITHOUT the subwoofer: tight, controlled, significantly different powerful sound your could feel. It's hard to quantify the improvement, but the bottom line is the driver of these speakers appears to be the limiting factor in how they sound ... not the speakers themselves. This to me is a testament to just how good these speakers actually are. I remain a very happy camper.
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Erick
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The Axiom speakers are awesome well made, crisp sound, any type of music, amazing notes. I have an NDA System generating about 1500W...surround etc.
Axiom units sound like speakers costing $1000+
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Dave
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My story about M80's in two locations 7 people found this helpful
I wrote this to respond to the Axiom newsletter piece on customer's first speakers and it turned into my review of the M80.
My first real speaker system was a set of 1985 Technics 8 ohm 3 way tower speakers paired with a Technics SU-V78 100W/chan class A integrated amplifier. It had good performance specs - especially the zero intermodulation distortion - and I think it was a credible system in its day.
In 2017, I was constructing a proper acoustically-treated theater/music listening room and I took delivery of the Axiom theater speakers (M80/180/500) before I was ready to install them so I set up the M80's in the living room with the old Technics amplifier (also specified for 4 ohm speakers) to try them out. I was shocked at how much better the M80's were than the old Technics speakers even with the 30 year old amp. The clarity and realism of the M80's was amazing and I think the M80's produced the lowest frequencies I'd ever heard in music up to that point. In some recordings I heard sounds that I'd never heard before.
Long story short - I donated the Technics speakers to a charity shop and bought another set of M80's for the living room. I subsequently replaced the Technics amplifier with a Yamaha R-N602 at 80W/chan and I didn't really notice a difference in sound quality over the old amp. After that I bought an Axiom EP350 sub off kijiji to take advantage of the Yamaha's sub output and I found that the EP350 complimented the M80's best with the cutoff set to the lowest frequency (80 Hz) because the M80s already had excellent bass response.
So now I have two pairs of M80's in different locations. I finished the theater/music listening room and installed the Axiom M80/180/500 6.1 speaker system with an Axiom 6 channel 400W/chan amp and an Emotiva XMC-1 Differential Reference Media Controller. The XMC-1 comes with native DIRAC Live room correction which works superbly in an acoustically-treated room. My strategy was to combine the M80's, which are already very efficient, with a very powerful amp so the amp is underworking even when playing really loud passages of music or movie soundtracks. That means the amp is operating well below any distortion it may produce if it's near its maximum limits. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that the combination of the Axiom amp with the Emotiva XMC-1 is noiseless and distortionless.
The living room system sounds good but the theater system is better. My goal was to be able to play music in the theater and have it sound exactly like the musicians and instruments were there live in the room and, with the right recordings, it does that.
