Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo M2 vs. M3 first impressions (CAGE MATCH !!)

... and to close this thread off for good, here's the happy ending :

I was pretty happy with M60s upstairs in the music system and M2s downstairs in the HT system, but with all the minor issues you would expect. The M60s are kinda big for a bedroom, even a large bedroom. The M2s won't play really loudly so for some music and some movies they start to hit their limits... but hooked up to a big sub with a 100 Hz crossover you can go a long way before hitting the limits.

I was about to pull the trigger on a pair of M3s for upstairs so I could move the M60s back down to the HT, when Axiom discontinued the M40s and cleared them out. I think I grabbed the second-last pair (in Boston Cherry), installed them upstairs, and moved the 60s downstairs.

The M40s are perfect music speakers, to my ears some of the best I have heard (but I have always been partial to 2-way speakers for music). With the M60s back downstairs I'm back to having an HT that can fill the room with as much sound as I can handle and still sound good.