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The reason I want to upgrade to M80s is... summer upgraditis! School's out and hometheater's in! I'm pretty pleased with my M22's, they rock. I usually save up money over the year and then work on the home theater over the summer. (last summer was a big upgrade: the 350 and the QS4s and the 3808 and a PS3!)

Your likely to get as many opinions as there are people as to if the M80s will be a significant improvement over the M22s in a 5/7.1 system. I have both the M22s and M80s and found that in the smaller room I just moved from I don’t think the M80s+sub are a big enough improvement over the M22s+sub to justify the cost. I haven’t done any A/B testing in my larger room but from what listening I have done I think the M80s are worth the extra money, but that’s just a first impression. They just seem to have more presence.

If you are willing to risk eating a $60.00 shipping charge the best way to find out is to order them and have a listen for yourself. That’s how I ended up with the M22s. I tested them against QS8s for rear speakers and even though the QS8s one that starting position I just couldn’t sent the M22s back because I thought that they just sounded to good and knew I would find a use for them.

So if there isn’t anything you can think of that might give you more bang-for-your-buck than a pair of M80s then I say at least try them out.

Cheers,
Dean

I upgraded from M22's to M80s and I love the better midrange/upper bass the M80s have over the M22s, it is more powerfull, prominent, IMO, particularly in 2 channel mode and for HT there is a more viseceral feel to explosions etc coming right at you from the lower XO the M80s offer. Having said all that, the M22/EP350 is a great combo(I ran my M22s with my PB13 Ultra) and you may not find as much difference as I did, as we all hear things a little differently.