Well I did it!

Today was the day...

I've had my four QS8s and my VP150 in boxes for a while now and I just filled out the Trade-Up information and placed an order for four more on-wall M3s that I will mount to my ceiling for Atmos/DTS:X duty.

Why did I go with on-wall M3s?

Well, I really had 3 choices.

1) On-wall M2s (smaller, still has a woofer and tweeter that my mains and center have)
2) On-wall M3s (just like my four on-wall M3s that I am using for surround channels, also has a woofer and tweeter that is the same as what my mains and center have)
3) In-ceiling M3 (same as the on-wall M3 for speaker components, aimable tweeter, and a flush/clean look in the room)

I eliminated the M2s pretty quickly. I felt that the larger woofers in the M3s would match better with the M3s already covering half of the room.

I really thought that I was going to end up with in-ceiling M3s. I love the nice and clean look, and the aimable tweeter is very helpful, however as I starting trying to map out where my ceiling joists were, I quickly found that there was a joist running just behind my rear row of seats and there wasn't any room to put the rear overhead in-ceiling speakers between the rear row and the soffit thanks to this joist. I never bothered to even see if the hat channel was in the way as it didn't matter any more. (For note, the joists in front of the first row were perfect for those speakers.) Also, I still wasn't very fond (nor was my wife) about the speakers being cut into the soundproofed ceiling.

So we did some tests. I sat in "my seat" and had my wife stand on a chair with an on-wall M3 wired up and no other speakers on. I had her mess around with mounting it flat on the ceiling vs. angled, and put it into a few different locations to see what the sound was like. Definitely needs to be angled as the sound is much cleaner.

The 2nd test was just with me holding the speaker in different locations (all 4 possible locations) and at an angle just so my wife and then my 17 year old daughter could give their opinions on how it would look with the speaker being down below the ceiling. Surprisingly they both though that it looked fine... even at an angle. This is where I thought that my wife was going to jump in and say "that is ugly. I don't want to see them." but she didn't.

So this morning I made the order. Now I am just waiting to find out how I get my shipping labels to send the 5 boxes back to Axiom. Not sure if they mail those to me, or send me the labels electronically for me to print out and put on the boxes.

Fun times are on the horizon.

Farewell - June 4, 2020