Dear Folks:

When I made this post I figured I'd come back in a few days and maybe get a response or two...WOW! Didn't realize I was going to get so many responses and good ones at that!! Thank you for the warm, warm welcome and the opinions!! Muchas Gracias!! (For the record, my intention was not to start a fight or get community members to refer to each other (once again!?!) as fish! ;O) -- so my apologies.)

Speaking of Cheeseroo, thank you sir, it's great to hear that Axioms match so closely I wouldn't be able to notice anything abnormal when choosing the VP100 (which I have) with the M60's (will soon). I wonder if that has anything to do with--according to every review I've read, and really Axiom's opus moderandi -- the goal of producing speakers that are as transparent as possible? Perhaps if their goal was to color the speakers one way or another, matching between different lines/tiers would be more of a challenge?

By the way, my listening room is an average-sized living room (12x12 w/ 8ft ceiling) for my area (Arlington, VA - 2 minutes outside Washington, DC). Actually, it's smaller than that right now but we will be moving to a slightly larger home in the near future and that is the size. (Same neighborhood)

I could have mentioned that we don't listen to music or movies too loud (between -25 and -18dbc, if that makes sense?). Perhaps when my wife and three year old son are away--she's from Costa Rica, so they go there a few times each year while I work my arse off to pay for it ;O) )--I will be cranking it up a bit more. I guess as they say, when the cats are away the (audiophan) mice will play!

Also, to answer some of your questions regarding why I don't go for the VP150 or larger, it just comes down to finances for a while. I think price/value is a major reason I was turned on to Axiom in the first place. A friend swears by them; I head them at his house; and a few years later (now) I'm purchasing them for myself and family. I've been "dreaming" about it for a while. The decision comes down to M50's or M60's and I'm really leaning towards the later now. No, I'm going with them.

Murph, from PEI -- you didn't happen to go to college in Maine around the late 80's - early 90's, did you? I knew a real good guy whose last name was Murphy, but whom we called "Murph." I thought he was from Saint John, NB, but he may have been from PEI (great mussels -- the food from PEI, not Murph's arms, by the way). Just thought I'd ask. He was a druken Irish guy too but we all were back then because it was college. Well, some of us were drunken French guys too.

Rock Head..."I started off with the M60's, added a VP100, then finished off the 5.1 system with an EP350 and QS8's." That sentence pretty much sums up my goals! Were you happy with the results?

With Dakkon...I appreciate what you're saying, and as I mentioned in my original post, I don't want buyers remorse, but I think I'm sold on the M60's with the VP100. If after a year or so I need to get a bigger center channel rather than opt for smaller towers (M50's), I will write to you and say...I should have listened to you at the 'preface' wherever you may have out it. :O)

Finally, I listen to all sorts of music as I'm a recovering drummer. I guess the "all sorts" pretty much describes everyone's listening tastes these days but I mean it in a general way. Sure, I'm not into country or hip hop, but I certainly wouldn't begrudge either genres. All genres have good music and less than good in my opinion. I'm getting older so I just don't have time to listen to "less than" anymore, no matter the style.

Thank you once again. I like it here.