Yeah...compared to the speakers tested in previous Audioholics shoot-outs(like the earlier one for the M22)the competition wasen't nearly so up-scale.
Rather unfortunate
A couple points they did make were somewhat interesting, however:
An "agressive tweeter"
Hmmmmm......somehow missed that one with my three M3s
And to refute the long lasting impression that the M3s and M50s are "laid-back":
They stated that the M3 was slightly foreward of neutral!(can't get much better than that!!)
So I guess the "laid-back" Axiom speakers are laid-back only in relation to the "other" "more-foreward" Axiom speakers!