Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Upgrade...M3 to M22...or M3 and better sub?

You're right. I should have said "Once I heard the 80s, it was tough to like the 60s or the 22s.".

Well, I just might buy M2s. I'll need a pair of bookshelves in the future and I haven't decided on a company or model. Right now, the audiobytes don't sound too bad for that application.

Me, I'd go with M3s, but I also haven't heard the M2s.

OK...lots of feedback...recommending the M80's I wish I could afford them, but I can't. What has impressed me about the M3's is how big they sound. With the sub even bigger. Well recorded CD's have the dynamics and authority of a much larger speaker. I guess I was wondering if the M22's (being that Axiom rates them for larger rooms than the M3's) might have even more dynamics (i.e., play louder and stay controlled)than the M3's. It sounds like maybe not. I really do love the M3'...just looking for an inexpensive upgrade to hold me over for a while.

The M22s sound very different than the M3s. Throw a blanket over the M22s and that's what the M3s sound like. But that's not necessarily a bad thing . The M22s perform surgery on your cochleas whereas the M3s gently caress them. I could relax to M3s but not M22s. Does that help you?

Axiom should have sound bytes on the site for these two speakers. The difference between them is like night and day.

At your house I did find them thin, in my own environment they sound pretty darn good. I think it is your room causing some issues with them, possibly it is just too open for them or it was just our placement of them at your house.

Rob, you could trade in the M3s and get the M60 or M80s, I know we have been pushing the M80s but if you really want that next step up, you have to go floor stander,IMO. You seem to really like the M3s, I would say the M60s sound is somewhere between the M3s and M80s.

I was a long time user of the M3's and recently got into the M80, till now with all due respect and in my opinion, I still preffer the M3's, I order an stand to place them like 6 inches higher, but honestly if this does not do it for me, I think that I iwll go back to square one...I do not get the M80's to be my liking sound yet, I feel them a little dark sounding in comparison, I like the highs and mid a little forward...

Killer,

I find your comments about the M80s compared to the M3s puzzling. By that, I don't mean to say that I don't believe you. I'd just like to really understand what it is about your environment that makes the M80s sound the way they do.

Have you confirmed that the straps bridge the bottom and top terminals? Have you confirmed that all drivers are indeed working?

I agree with Mojo as you are the first person to claim the M3s are more forward with the mids and highs where as everyone else has it the other way, the M3s are more laid back and the M80s are more forward. It really does sound like there might be something wrong with the M80s

Agreed.

I think Alan should take a field trip down there to check them out .