not the greatest but not bad at all.
I would hope that for $2,000 they would sound great without qualification. Since your friend has these speakers, you can do a comparison of sorts.
Take some music that you are familiar with and that you know is well recorded and listen to his speakers again. take some notes on what you liked and what you didn't. Then go strait to a paradigm dealer and lisen to similarly priced speakers and see how they compare.
As for the Axioms, see if you can find someone in the area that owns a pair and will let you audition them. Axiom has a
Hearing Things forum where you can do that.
I think that my M80s sound exceptional for the money, but then, I would not have bought them if I didn't. I would put them in the same class as the Paradigm Studio 100.
While you are at the store listening to Paradigms, see what else they have in the same price range and give that a listen as well.
Don't forget to come back and report your findings.
Pictures are always good.
