Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Advice on bookshelf speakers.

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Although the 120Hz crossover for SACDs is higher than ideal for most speakers, it isn't bad and localization might not be noticeable if the sub is near or behind one of the mains.

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While 120hz for SACD isn't too bad, the 200hz for DVD-A IMO is.

I have the 563a and do not use its bass management capabilities.

If one uses the bass management (other than all speakers set to large which is essentially "off") the signal gets downgraded some. This is a quirk of the 563a - Pioneer used very good parts and therefore it has capabilities some cheap sacd players don't have (see discussion on ecoustics.com).

So, I was told that to have the best sound on SACD and DVD-A to leave all speakiers set to large on the Pioneer 563a.

But, yes I could do the bass mangement there to some degree. The 563 has other bass issues that I don't remember at present.

I am not sure I understand all you wrote but thanks.

by the way - is there some trick to getting the image to appear (my avatar)?

I have a picture of my daughter on www.8th-day.org/contactus.htm called aaa.jpg

I put this line in the picture space and nothing shows up (without spaces - added here to show the text I put in):

[ image ] http://www.8th-day.org/contactus.htm/aaa.jpg[/image]

Does it have to be a gif file?

NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULAR TOPIC - sorry

BigWill

Thanks for your input - I am answering posts while not really being sure of my own setup possibilities. So, it may be "myignorant"

You've got your URL mixed up. Your picture is actually at http://www.8th-day.org/aaa.jpg.

Oh - so you don't type in [image] before and after - that was the problem. I tried a lot of other combinations but this was the issue.

Thanks

Now that I am the proud owner of a pair of M3's I can weight in... these speakers are wonderful. They are definitely laid back however, at least compared to the M22's I got to hear during my speaker search. Also the bass from these speakers is decent for being small. I would have to say "for bookshelf speakers they have good bass". Compared to anything bigger I'd have to say these definitely lack bass output however.

My M3 should come today. I orderd only one cause I was bidding on ebay for two others and planned to use one as a center.

I will listen to it and then order 2 more I presume.

Or I might return it and order three M2's if I think it is too laid back (which I doubt coming from some cheap Paradigms with that huge bass hump).