I'm talking about the sense that there are no speakers in the room, just music. I'm not talking about the ability of a speaker to sonically disappear, leaving the illusion of a soundstage behind. What really sets a great speaker apart from the Axioms is the feeling that there are no speakers in the room. One of these areas is ultimate transparency. Most often, they separate the fairly expensive from the very expensive.
These are the traits that separate even the very good speakers from the great. We're talking intangibles and an elevated level of sophistication. Through the midrange, there are small perceptible and important differences that are very real yet hard to describe. Overall the perceptible articulation was slightly better with the Gallos but when it comes to rocking the house, the Axioms were the speaker to beat. On both Green Day's American Idiot and Bowling for Soup's Drunk Enough To Dance, the Axioms gave me an extra degree of bass foundation and power that better energized the room.
For instance, the Axioms bettered the little Gallos in the area of bass depth and power. Sometimes substituting another speaker for the Axioms is the only way to bring such details to light.īringing in the excellent Gallo Ref 3.1s did shed some of that light. The ear has a strong tendency to forgive what they don't do in favor of what they do so well - even when you make an effort to do otherwise. This review page is supported in part by the sponsor whose ad is displayed aboveĪ lot of my time spent with the M80s involved trying to answer the question, "what won't these speakers do that much more expensive speakers will?" When listening to the M80s, it can be an awfully difficult question to answer.
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