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I cant recall my dimensions but I have a large living room thats open up through the second floor, so over 20'. There is stairs and an overhead catwalk in the rear so that also probably helps reflections. There are some fake beams up on the ceiling there that may be helping things a little too, dunno. I'm also open into the kitchen area on one side. Not sure about your detail but we have the same basic shape.

I do not find the M60s bright in this area and am constantly impressed to death when I put on a CD that is actually well engineered.

For stereo only, I'm thinking they sound better than the M60s in my 5.1 HT room in the basement which is the square room from acoustics Hell. Mind you, they still impress everyone who listens down there but if I try to do a comparison, I seem to like stereo better up in the bigger room. At least what I can hear over my panting from running up and down the stairs over and over.

In the large living room, you probably have some favourable reflections that lend to a feeling of spaciousness for your stereo sound. I bet when you turn up the volume you also get some image broadening and if you turn the volume up too much it starts to get muddied.

"Yes" definitely nice imaging and "yes" the loudness seems to make things more forgiving for the sweet spot where imaging is concerned. I'm not an ultra-loud kind of guy so I have yet to notice muddied music from my axioms (with the exception of some realllly poorly recorded CDs that now p___ me off.) I admit to trying deafening loudness levels just to see what they could do when I first bought them but my ears gave out long before the volume knob did and I was really only trying to hear if there would be distortion.

Sooner or later I'll post some pictures as it is an interesting room and the pets actually haven't wrecked anything yet.

I have a room similar to your dimensions with a vaulted ceiling and kitchen off to the side. I currently have the M22’s, VP150, QS8's, M2's, SVS PB1 sub in a 7.1 setup and all connected to an Onkyo TX-NR900 receiver. I use this setup for 70% home theater and 30% music (some DVD-A). I love the sound and clarity from the Axiom's and they do not have a problem filling my room with sound. I recently got the upgrade bug and will be getting the M60's within the next week to replace my M22's so I can get even more out of the room.