I remember when I first moved to our new house and put my M80's in my dedicated HT room. A huge room with 9 ft ceilings and nothing on the walls or no furnature. They sounded horrible. I almost wondered if they had been damaged in the move. After I got the furnature in and added some treatments on the walls and a little position tweaking, back came that sweet sound that I was used too (i was much relieved).

I have read artical after artical that says changing the accustics in your room, can make as big a difference as changing your speakers.

It is possible that the room accoustics at Bob's place don't work well with the M80's.

If that is the case, Bob, you have two options, change the room to match your speakers, or change your speakers to match your room. Which you choose is your call, we can only give advice.

Nobody here ever said this was going to be easy. But it is rewarding once you get it right.

Best of luck in what ever you decide.

paul

paul

Axiom M80, VP180, Qs8, EP500
Epson 3020
Rotel RB-880
Denon AVR-990