How do you like your Axiom's. Have you been able to compare them with other speakers such as Paradigms or others? What do you use to drive them?
I never did a direct comparison. I listened to PSB, Totem, Paradigm Monitor and Studios and a few others. I really liked the Studios. I then went up to Axiom (only 3 hours away) and listened to much of their line.
I am very happy with my setup and think that, for the money, Axioms are very good. I have communicated with a few people that have done an A/B comparison between the M80s and the Studio 100s who said they were very very close.
The strongest testimony to the M80s comes from a guy who had Paradigm Signatures as his main system and picked up the M80s for a second room. He was completely amazed by how good the M80s sounded compared to the Signatures.
Here is the thread where he posted his comments.
To make this post vaguely related to the topic, when I auditioned PSB it was in a noisy common area. I tried to get the dealer to let me compare the PSB B25 to the rainmaker in a listeining room and he wouldn't do it (bait and switch). PSB never got a fair audition.
