Hi Rick,
Yes, I expect so. Short of shipping my Summer 2003 M80s back to Axiom--and I'm tempted to do so-- and doing a round of listening tests, I expect them to be virtually the same.
The thing is, Ian has a habit of slipping in some design change during production and then telling me later on my next visit to the plant for listening tests. I asked him a year or two ago if there had been any upgrades in the M60 and he said, "Oh, yeah, it's entirely different," and laughed uproariously, knowing I'd be annoyed! And I had to admit that after doing a bunch of tests, the M60 v2 sounded a lot better than I'd remembered it.
Regards,
Alan
