Axiom Epic Grand Master 500

[budpierce]

I am shopping for high end inwall speakers. I have been told that the Axiom in-wall on-wall speakers are some of the best. Can anyone give me any advice. I am going to install a 7.1 speaker system.

 

[mudrummer99]

Check out Speakercraft as well.

Mike

 

[AVRat]

Hey bud, is this the same room you started dealing with last year? http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33935

$$$ willing to spend? Def Tech Reference, RBH, BG, Niles HT, Polk LSi, JBL Synthesis, Triad, Genelec, Atlantic Tech, B&W, PSB, James, Klipsch, Sonance, Snell.

 

[budpierce]

Axiom Speakers

Yes this is the same room. I am just now finishing off my system

 

[AVRat]

Regarding Axiom, some like them some don’t. Your own ears should be the deciding factor. You could order a pair of their M22s for a test trial. Be warned though that the M22s don’t play very deep on their own. If you’re satisfied, send them back and get the in-walls. Axiom is very accommodating.

I’d also like to suggest that if your situation allows, for the price of the Axiom EP500 you could do a dual setup of the AV123 MFW-15s which should help even out your room’s bass response when positioned properly. http://av123.com/component/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,189/category_id,9/manufacturer_id,0/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,37/

BTW, have you purchased the receiver?

 

[mazersteven]

I am shopping for high end inwall speakers. I have been told that the Axiom in-wall on-wall speakers are some of the best. Can anyone give me any advice. I am going to install a 7.1 speaker system.

In the 3 plus years I have been around these audio forums, I have never read that Axiom in-walls were "some of the best".

Some of the Best

Triad
Silver/6 Monitor
http://www.triadspeakers.com/products/iws6mon.html

Triad
Gold/6 Monitor
http://www.triadspeakers.com/products/iwg6mon.html

Snell Acoustics
http://www.snellacoustics.com/ProductDetails/InWallSpeakers.asp

James Loudspeakers
Concerto Collection
http://www.jamesloudspeaker.com/index.cfm?page=by_series&id=2

 

[Haoleb]

I have had expeirence with the James products. They are a pretty unheard of brand name around these circles but they do make a nice speaker. In the showroom where I used to work we installed the grand concerto's for front L&R and had either the baby grands or the 83sdx i cant remember...for the rest of the speakers in a 9.4 setup. (with 4 EMB1200 subs)

The one product of theirs I really disliked was the powerpipe subwoofer. That thing is terribly boomy. That setup was really nice but its also very expensive. I think the Grand concerto's run 7k each. They did not sound 7K each good to me.

Axiom is also coming out with what appear to be nearly flush mounted in-wall speakers with a sealed back box compared to their onwall/inwall speakers. And from what I believe they will be eventually adding in even the M80 into that lineup.