Axis Distribution are the name behind one of the maddest heavy bass brands around. Massive Audio.

Chris Woods is the boss at Axis and a bona fide car audio fanatic. He loves his toys and his job distributing them is as much about his own access to some of the best stuff around as much as it is a living. He lives and breathes this kit and spends absurdly long hours working as one thing he is very good at is making certain that every end user of his product is as well informed as to options and designs for things like boxes as they can be. He helps dealers design complex boxes and even gets involved in ordering them accurately from the subcontractor specialists he uses for some of his dealers. He’s well technical. I particularly love the web video of him ‘ruggedness testing’ a massively long and wide piece of pipe used as a port in his insane own-build of huge woofers in a van. He is pictured rolling along a concrete roadway while inside as I gathered it was too hard to walk on the top like a lumberjack!

The Massive Audio brand is his mainstream line and has a keen fan base. Axis sponsor and get heavily involved with the decibel drag racing competition format, too.

Massive Audio has subwoofers, amplifiers and speakers, as well as some nice processors. Subwoofers could be said to be their star products and they range from an entry at £99 (proving these are not just cheap and nasty things) going up to a £600, three thousand watt model with a Carbon fibre cone. That one is well into the bracket I tend to describe as Weapons Grade.

Their ‘Professional’ named amplifiers range from a basic 2 x 100w RMS up to a three kilowatt sub-mauler and go in price from £160 to around a grand. Their speaker lines are all in the process of being revamped as we write and you can expect the new stuff to be shipping in the UK in the next few months, which of course means that right now, your dealer might be a little keener to do you a better price on what they have in stock.

One line that might be worth waiting for is their new ‘low profile’ stuff. It is to be made with neodymium magnets as this means a much smaller motor assembly hanging on the back. Their normal speakers are so well, massive that on the five inch midbass driver, for example, the magnet will only just go through the hole you need to mount the speaker in! Thus their idea of low profile may not be quite what we think of in Europe. Their speakers are ruggedly constructed and kick butt.

There are some new processor products in the pipeline. In particular in the OEM integrator bracket, a thing called the IRIS. It will have 8 channels of inputs and the same number of outputs. The ‘Flatline’ is another and like the JL Cleansweep and a bit like a certain thing by AudioControl, it can EQ the OEM headunit signal so as to compensate for its shortcomings or even tweakings to work better with really Lowest Common Denominator factory speakers. A minor scoop for you is that they also plan a bass enhancer that actually synthesises lower bass frequencies based upon the input signal and adds them back in, like the sub bass synthesiser made by dbx for studio use or the Boss bass pedal made for guitarists and of course like the legendary AudioControl Epicentre. This is a serious bass enhancer and can blow up systems in clumsy hands but is awesome in the right application. You need serious kit to use one and Massive do make that.

The Massive boys are West Coasters and are true enthusiasts themselves. Their amplifiers may well be their biggest strength in my opinion although they were the very first people to ever put a signal-powered blue LED in a bass woofer cone. Their Pro Series amplifiers are some 87% efficient at turning current into watts, which makes them a bit special in terms of how much sound you get per pound spent.

– Well made products
– Entry level to serious enthusiast kit
– Fabulous technical back up in the UK
– Good processors
– Exciting new stuff yet to come

Customer support telephone number 0870 350 2460
www.axisdistribution.co.uk