Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions Talk me out of it….Pulling the trigger…

Hey 2x6, I think I read this and meant to respond…..

I listen to pretty much everything but lean towards blues and jazz, and rock and folk.

I’ve seen reviews on the Reisong and others like Willsenton R8. I eyed up a CJ tube amp as well on Canuck Audio Mart too. A CAV-50. I’m really intrigued by tube amplifiers and my master bedroom with the m3v4 in there might fit the bill. We ll see. Right now I’m just enjoying them with my solid state yammie.

I’ll post more thoughts here later on my initial m3 experience, for those that are interested, but so far I know I’m keeping them and without trying or anything the sweet spot / off axis performance is miles better than my m60 ti.

I actually tried them really haphazardly and just plunked them on top of my dresser that is too high which puts the woofers in line with it just below my ears. Sounded amazing! Lots more experimenting needed to get it dialed. These will likely end up on stands of some sort I think.

That's what I found when I tried the M3v4 against my M80v2. And I was a full-on hater of M3ti.

All the V4 bookshelves and on-wall bookshelf versions are really good. Of the floor-standing I personally have only heard the actives which are amazing. The M3v4 is a great little speaker. I had them as mains for a little while before changing them out for the M22/EP500 combo which now is a M2/EP500 combo. Note I tried the M3/EP500 combo but felt the M22 and M2’s had a slight edge (that I only noticed by comparing them side by side).

Whoops, meant to comment here, got my threads confused.....

Well that's good feedback, thankyou. Its certainly a setup configuration im considering for my great room. M5hp, twin ep500 and an ada 1250 or ada 1500 and a preamp ( no idea what this might be for choice...) but i'm trying to consider building it up over a few years and do it in a way that leads to an omnidirectional setup. We'll see, as always, im full of ideas. But we are taking the first steps thisspring to start our great room , it's still very plain and unfinshed as of right now, been away working too much. But we've put some solid time into how we want tit all to look and function.

Spend some time listening to both the M3 and M60 in there. See what qualities you like of those two. The M5 will give you similar sound as the M60 while disappearing as well as the M3.

Will do thanks. I know i like the midrange of the m60ti , ALOT. The M3v4 is super easy to make disappear. The bass is really good to it's roll off and dooesnt try too hard, but what it does play is really good. The image is really good too, there is better seperation between the objects than with the m60ti, but the midrange is not as front and center, and i really like that.

107 db is plenty loud! I think the only reall advantage with the m100 is that maybe it plays even louder? ( and with linearity due to the multiple drivers sharing the load...) but i dont need to listen at 107db very often. My hope is to fill our large space with the right configuration that it is full bodied and as good off axis and "invisible" a possible. I really enjoy full bodied bass too, occasional r and b and rap are super fun and sub bass is super fun.

Another observation; to really get the locked in Center image with m60ti my receiver absolutely had to be in “ Pure Direct “. But with the m3v4 I can have that disengaged and play with the tone controls a bit too and the large and wide image stays in place and allows plenty of enjoyments from many positions.

It's the v4 "tuning" vs. the ti. Like I said many times, even though I despised the M3ti, I found the M3v4 to be more enjoyable than my M80v2.

Yeah. The m3v4 is a really great little speaker. I really like it. I’m going to try it tomorrow in the big room and do an unofficial a/b test with them off the yammie. I’m going to use the a/b speaker switch, that should be relatively quick change. I’ll let y’all know how it goes.

I’m most curious about the treble. I haven’t listened to my m60ti in awhile.

Try them with the tweeter below ear level.