Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Which on wall speakers should I get for my space?

Psychologically, the M5s look like they'd be better than the M2s. It was a tough battle in my living room between psyche and reason. Reason won.

Cork also mentioned the M22 … it’s not on the website anymore but Ian has mentioned that he can still make them. It sounds a lot like an M2 but claims to be about 3db more efficient (i.e. needs 1/2 the power to drive them to the same level). Since Mojo is pointing out the m2 may look small … the M22 might have an aesthetic advantage here.

While this has nothing to do with me at all, I kinda get the aesthetic advantage of the m22 as rrlev suggests. Plus an easier to drive load is an advantage giving you slighlty more overhead for the L/R, then use subs (2.2) to support / establish a proper low end thus relieving the m22 of bass duty, (with a properly blended builtin crossover in the sub) assuming your processor or amp has bass managment, use .2 to smooth the response with 2 smaller subs rather than one big one in a smaller to medium space. Dam, that sounds like I nice system. Rrlev, you have m22's correct? I recall seeing pics of yours with them.

Yup, have M22’s in the Master in combo with QS8’s in the rear.

Hey Everyone, I appreciate everyone weighing in here. I decided to pull the trigger on the M5s. They actually had the color i was looking for in the B stock section so i was able to save another $100 on them. I suppose if they are too much i can always spend the $30 to return them. Doubtful that will happen though.

Thank you!

I’m sure the M5’s will be fine and are a good choice if you’ll be without a sub for awhile

Sweet!!!! Enjoy!!!!! Look forward to a review and impressions of what you think. Congrats.

Which color / finish did you get?

I got the whitewash maple color.

Congratulations Eblack, I think you'll love them! You were in a good position because there wasn't a wrong choice among your options. And finding what you want in the B-stock is always a treat. Axiom is good on returns, there's no run-around or arm-twisting; the hardest part is taking them down and putting them in the box.

And now back to our normal thread diversion ...
I've always liked the look of the M22 over the M2. Framing it that way was insightful Mojo and rrlev.

Mojo, I wasn't emphasizing "more bass", in fact, that's what I don't like about the M3, that little mid-bass bump. It's not bad, just more noticeable than I prefer. (But I didn't return them, so not that bad.) What I was talking about is the early bass drop-off of the M2. Not a problem if you have a sub, but in the smaller room the M5 might not need the sub. And the M22 is *extremely* linear; there's no bump, just an extension down low before it drops off.
As for the impedance graph, I'm not seeing what you're seeing. Going by an "area under the curve average" (and I have no idea if that's valid for impedance), it looks like the M5s would come in at around 8 ohms assuming most music has as much over 1K as under. But more importantly, the only under-6 ohm gap I see is a small bathtub from 100-500 Hz. I snapped the line at 6 ohm because it feels like that's where amp manufacturers get antsy about speaker ratings. All that said, I'm definitely winging it; so more info on reading that chart is welcome.

My M2’s/EP500 are natural maple and the QS10’s are whitewashed maple … I love those colors! Especially against the gray and purple walls. They will match almost any color and not look as heavy in the room as say the natural walnut. It will also go with a white screen if I ever switch to a UST projector for that room (which may happen as I personally would like a bigger screen in the family room since the couches are a bit further back then I originally planned)