The VP180 is a center channel speaker designed to offer the same tonal neutrality and clarity – as well as the high frequencies and deep bass – as a pair of the company's M80 towers.

It's an impressive center channel speaker, sporting two 6.5 inch woofers, a pair of 5.25 inch midrange speakers, and two 1 inch titanium dome tweeters.    In all, it's got a frequency response from 34Hz on up to 20kHz.  

It's not a small speaker by any means, and measures in at just under 40 inches wide.  You can pick up the 56.8 pound speaker alone or with a pair of custom aluminum stands for an additional $240. You can pick up the VP180 from Axiom for a price of $695.  Shipping is expected to begin on July 15th.

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phil  - trend   |2010-07-08 17:08:36 AV123 is coming out with a center speaker that looks very similar...the center is so important, I cannot understand how anyone can buy a Bose et al were the center ch is the smaller than a MacMini. 0   0

Dennis   |2010-07-09 09:29:13 How can this possibly be construed as the correct way to design a center channel speaker! You will get massive comb filtering and phase cancellations from the horizontal positioning of the drivers. The sound quality at the various listening positions in a home theater or surround sound set up will vary tremendously. Even in a centrally located listening position, the phase cancellations will make it next to impossible to achieve focused and coherent center channel sound. IMO the best driver arrangement for a center speaker is a coaxial driver such as that used by Thiel in the SCS4 or if a 3-way design is deemed necessary, the Thiel MCS1, which uses a coaxial tweeter/mid driver, allowing for both vertical and horizontal orientation of the speaker. Other speakers that use coaxial or dual concentric driver include Tannoy and KEF. This type of design provides a point source and if properly designed will result in a coherent and focused sound that is essential for the all important center channel signal. If a conventional 3-way design ( 3 or more separate drivers) is to be used, they should, at the very least, be arranged the Aerial Acoustic does in their CC3 and CC5 models - tweeter and midrange drivers one above the other and the woofer(s) on either side. Better still would be to arrange all the drivers in a vertical array, but most installations will not allow for a center speaker that tall. The main function of the center channel is to provide a focused, centrally located center image at more than just the centrally located listening position. It is difficult to see how spreading drivers across almost the whole screen width will accomplish that goal. Also there is no need for a center speaker to that big. Any decent single 6" woofer can reproduce frequencies lower that the human voice, and reproducing voice (dialogue) is the main function of the center speaker. The lowest frequencies I have ever heard from a human voice is about 54Hz, and there is very low levels of the fundamental frequency contained in that sound - mostly harmonics which start at 108 Hz. A more intelligent center speaker design would be smaller and have either vertically oriented drivers ( at least the tweeter and the midrange ) or preferably, a coaxial or dual concentric design. 0   0

phil  - Listen   |2010-07-09 10:48:45 Once you have actually heard this center channel speaker then you views become much more valid, until then........ 1   0

Dennis   |2010-07-09 13:57:10 Of course one must listen to a speaker before judging it's sound quality. I was commenting on the design aspects. If you check the AV123 center speaker, you will see that the tweeter and mid are vertically positioned to minimize comb filtering in the critical voice region. I have not heard that one either, but it's design is more correct in my view and therefore has a better chance of sounding focused and coherent. It is quite possible that it will not sound as good as the Axiom for other reasons, but at least that particular aspect of it's design is superior. 0   1

rick  - owner   |2012-06-20 15:41:25 I think you have to eat the pie, before saying whether it was properly baked or not. I personally have not listened to the VP 180 0   0

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