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!