I haven’t heard the M3 but so far the best sounding center for the M80s besides another M80 is the M22 IMO. The M3 by design is not going to timbre match with the M80s. Doesn’t mean you wouldn’t like it as a center but the odds are stacked against you.
I agree that laying them down didn’t really work for me. Screws up the imaging worse that a standard horizontal center. OTOH it did create a “wall-of-sound” effect that was sort of cool for movies. I think JC from Axiom has a couple M22s set up this way and really liked it. Maybe you should email or PM him to get his opinion of doing it.
Last edited by grunt; 03/08/10 04:53 AM. Reason: re-phrased something
