Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners M50 to M5HP upgrade expectations

Me too, however the house decorator does not.
This is where theyre going
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JmtnddGJmy4DKw3i9

Family room system. Matches the kitchen cabinets the room is open to.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wfdKiQkbQzbiCoCEA

They're going to look real nice on either side of the window. You'll get a real nice soundstage 10 to 12 feet out.

Naked Axioms grow on people. I've thought of making some of mine more pop art-like by painting the drivers.

The wife and I spend a lot of friday nights shooting pool and listening to music. The pool table is about 20 feet from that wall. When I sit on the couch and listen I’m at about 12 feet, which never seems far enough for the M50’s.
I’m going to try leaving the grills off the M5’s and hit the wife with the “pop art” thing.

Aye. Ask the wife to imagine them with Alizarin Crimson woofers and Burnt Umber mid-woofers. Cadmium Red or Cadmium Yellow tweeter grills would make them pop!

Do your M50s sound like the stage is too close to you?

Lol... I'll give that a try. Yes, when shooting pool the M50's are great. But when I want to just sit on the couch and listen, which I often do after dinner with a little bourbon, the soundstage is too close and the vocals always collapse into the left speaker.

The v4 is tuned to present the soundstage from the front plane of the speakers towards the back...in your case right out the window. v2 and earlier are different. I'm not sure about v3.

Presumably you don't face the TV when you sit on the couch to listen to the M50s. You may be sitting too far to the left.

I sit in the far corner of the couch, sorta facing the speakers. I'm definitely too far left but there's no room to move the couch back. My wife wants to get a chair and a little bar/server once the M50'S are gone. I'm hoping I can convince her to put the chair in a good listening position. She thinks I'm crazy when I talk about audio details.

The chair needs to be across from the window at the midpoint between the M5s. Sit her in that chair and for the first time ever, she'll be exposed to what stereo imaging is.

Speaker #2 has been released from it's quarantine and has arrived!! Not likely I will have time to install till Saturday.