Next speakers face-off: Battle of the Online Distributors

corysmith01

corysmith01

Senior Audioholic
Is anyone else here as interested in this as I am? I've seen a few reviews of online-only speakers mixed in with the reviews of store-bought speakers, but in my mind, it seems like this would be a really great face-off between the companies that specialize in direct internet sales and how their product fares against each other. Maybe, as a equalizer, you include one store-bought brand (comparable of course) to see how the stack up, but the rest would be all internet based. Within each, just for comparison, maybe review one tower and one bookshelf. Perhaps they could be titled:

Internet Direct Speaker Face off I: Bookshelves
Internet Direct Speaker Face off II: Towers

I think it'd be great to read a review that included Rocket, Axiom, Aperion, and Ascend (did I leave out any bigs) going up against one another, head to head under the same conditions. These are the speakers you can't audition unless you actually commit to buying them, so reading the thoughts/reviews from the trusted folks at audioholics, I think, would be of great help. Is anyone else as interested in this sort of showdown, or is it just me?
 
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teewinot

Audiophyte
I'd like to see the Swans thrown into that mix also.
 
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craigsub

Audioholic Chief
This September, we will have Paradigm Studio 100 V.3's, Axiom M80ti's and M22ti's, Rocket 850s', Energy Veritas 2.4i, Onix Ref 3's, Ascend 170's and 340's, and possibly a couple more for a blind test.

Swan was invited, but has yet to respond ...
 
TjMV3

TjMV3

Full Audioholic
How about the Odyssey Lorelei and/or the Odyssey Nightingale?

These are two very fine speakers!
 
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silversurfer

Senior Audioholic
craigsub said:
This September, we will have Paradigm Studio 100 V.3's, Axiom M80ti's and M22ti's, Rocket 850s', Energy Veritas 2.4i, Onix Ref 3's, Ascend 170's and 340's, and possibly a couple more for a blind test.

Swan was invited, but has yet to respond ...
You are going to have the bookshelves and floorstanders in the same blind test? Don't you have some other Rocket/Onix speakers too? ELT's and RS250's?
 
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Rock&Roll Ninja

Rock&Roll Ninja

Audioholic Field Marshall
I'd use Paradigm's Studio series as the B&M ringer speakers.
 

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