kexodusc says.......
"Severe peakiness that plagues most aluminum drivers"...give me a break...
They use decent MCM Electronic drivers in the Axioms, which aren't much inferior the Dayton's in the BR-1's. They're every bit as capable as what's in the Monitor line.

"So what, you've built the BR-1's, learned what Zobel is and now you think you know everything about speaker designing? Zobels and low pass filters are there to compensate for drivers that need compensation. They aren't necessarily needed if the woofer and tweeter are well mated to each other."

newbsterv2 says........
I actually happen to have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering as well as 5 years experience at a fortune 500 TCOM company called Tellabs. I've been working on a new DWDM Fiber Optic system that is in beta testing. I also can read a speakers frequency response graph and see a problem as anyone can. What kind of experience do you have?

kexodusc says...
I'm not saying the M3Ti is the end all be all...I think the BR-1's are better, I like the PeeCreeks better still for about the same money. But for you to imply they are weakly designed compared to Paradigm is a joke.

I've owned my fair share of Paradigm's, still have the Studio 40's and 20's, and like them as much as the next guy as far as commercial offerings go...but the Axiom's certainly aren't inferior to the Mini Monitors. If anyone is guilty of cutting corners, Paradigm is, ever look inside on of their speakers? You make a claim that Axiom is profit oriented while Paradigm is not...think about it for a minute. Is Paradigm building speakers to solve world hunger?

newbsterv2 says.......
Paradigm is not solving world hunger no but at least they have a clear objective. To build speakers that are as smooth as possible throughout the midrange as well as being competitevely priced.

I would be very curious to know where you've obtained the schematics to Axiom's crossovers, as well.[/QUOTE]

I actually opened up the pair I owned and looked at the crossover. I used my DMM to check the continuity between the pins to see what went to where and loaded the values as well as the schematic into my electronics simulation software to see what the crossover exactly did. The tweeter employs a steep 4th order crossover at 2.2khz and the woofer is just connected to the amplifer straight up with no components in it's path. You can call it "minimalistic" or "clever" engineering or whatever but any engineer who can call himself an enginner would never make a product like this and sell it. I'll admit that the speaker has good bass and you could say it's competitevely priced but it's actually cheaply built and sold the same way.