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Why substitute out a good driver (the 5.25") for a 4" driver, when the 5.25" works excellently for the midrange?

Let me straighten it out a little bit.

In the M22s (a 2 way design) there is a crossover to filter out the low frequencies from the tweeter and probably a crossover to filter out the treble from the pair of 5.25" drivers. Therefore, they get the midrange and everything down. They are more capable of producing bass because there's a pair of them. (more area=more bass). In this case, the 5.25"s are serving as woofers.

In the M60s (a 3 way design), there is the crossover to filter out the mid/low from the tweeter, a crossover to filter out the treble/bass from the 5.25" speaker, and a crossover (probably) to filter out the treble and mid from the pair of 6.5" woofers (which is a fair amount of area to produce the bass). This gives extra bass over the M22s (well, that and the increased cabinet size, ports, etc.) In this case, the 5.25" is serving as a midrange.


In any case, it's just a matter of symantics.

I won't go into why Axiom doesn't use 8" drivers; one assumes it's because they don't want or need to. M22s sound a lot better than Paradigm Monitor 9s (a speaker with a pair of 8s in a 2 way design as you describe).

The magic here is M22s = smaller room and M60s=bigger room. Frankly, I would hate to have my life depend on the difference in the audio produced by the two. Jack is happy he made the switch to M60s, and as said many times, the choice is personal preference. Both speakers do better with a sub and the M22s benefit most, (I really like the SVS choice). I gave the M60s the nod because logics (read testostrone and bragging rights here ) told me "bigger is better" and I like the look of towers. Also, when you factor in the cost of good stands, the price difference gets closer to being a non-issue. The REAL driver for the decision was to avoid the old "what-if". The M60s are special and I'm a happy guy.

Thanks for the clarification on the drivers. Axiom obviously knows what they're doing or they would have another arrangement. I went with the M60's as well seeing as I was in the middle of ugradeitis I figured I don't want to go through it again. To get back to the original post M22's would work great for movies but if you have a few extra bucks laying around you won't regret shelling out a few extra clams on them, especially seeing as your music habits will go up when you hear how good they are.