Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo M80 versus Magnapan 1.7?

The person you want to talk with is CraigSub. He is the one who has done the most on comparing speakers to each other.

I had a pair of Energy C-3 and the move from them to M80 was absolutely huge. Funnily though I went from a larger Celestion DL8 speakers to the Energy C-3 and thought that there was a great improvement at the time. But I also upgrade to a far better receiver and didn't put the weight into knowing how much impact a good high current amp could have.

I have never owned a Magnapan electrostatic speaker. I gather that there are those who adore them and those who abhor them. Personally I found that they didn't really do anything for me as the sound was to linear and didn't have the live warmth to them that I like. it might be part that they were not setup correctly??

have not heard the M60 so I can't say how they sound but I found the wall mount M3 that I tried once to be a bit lacking when held up against the larger speakers.

But once you get into a HT setup you are stuck with what form of compromise you are willing to take.

btw: ask Craig about is thoughts on the LFR's.. Where is Craig? we have not heard from him in quite a while.