OK, that was interesting and a little bit disturbing...

After getting comfortable with the M40's for music I hauled the M60s back upstairs to the HT area and now it sounds right again. That freed up the M2s and got me thinking about how they would sound down in the music system. Fortunately they're a lot easier to carry than M60s.

Put the M2's upside-down on top of the M40's and moved the speaker cables across to the M2s. Wow. I never did a direct A/B between M40's and M60's but I guess now I know what the results would have been. Vocals on the M2's are a lot clearer than on the M40's, to the point that it was a tough call between the excellent full-range response of the M40's and the crisp midrange of the M2's. If I had to listen to just one I probably would have leaned slightly towards the M2's over the M40's (!!!), at least for the (not very bass-dependent) tracks I was listening to.

So what to do ? Duh, wire 'em up in parallel and listen to some music. The result was a tough call. From a distance the combination works really well, pretty close to the M60's, but sitting in front of the speakers there was something mucked up with the imaging (basically it wasn't there). I checked for obvious out-of-phase stupids and didn't find any, but I never have 100% confidence in a one-time check.

The M60's are staying upstairs, so I either need to throw another pair of full-range speakers into the mix or at least go back to 2005 and pair up a subwoofer with the M2's. As Yoda says, meditate on this I will.

Last edited by bridgman; 09/03/14 01:08 AM.
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