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The authorities separated the suspect speakers so they don't discuss the contraband and give statements by consensus.

Finished the temporary mounts for the m5s. Now I’m just waiting for that magical shipping notification...

Let us know how those M5s sound.

Sure will. I hope yours behave and don't get detained.

Hopefully mine ship out this week. I’ll be curious to see how long TN detains them.

O. M. G. !! Mojo you were so right! I don’t have your eloquent descriptive abilities so I’m just gonna say these speakers kick freakin ass! Your analogy was perfect, like going from 720 p to 4k. The detail, clarity, soundstage is amazing! Listening to the M50’s I always thought “how much better could it be”, well, apparently it can be a lot better. All my agonizing over whether to trade or not was squashed in the first 3 minutes. I played Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze, loud, and it was like I was hearing it for the first time. Norah Jones, Jeff Buckley, the detail stunning. Everything I threw at them sounded amazing, even some old concert recordings that arent that great and I usually can’t turn up too loud. These speakers play loud with 0 distortion and little effort from my amp. They are also really good at playing at low volumes. It’s hard to describe the difference but it’s kinda like the M50’s seemed to move further away as you turned down the volume, the M5’s don’t do that, they get quieter but they still stay up front, if that makes any sense. I am so glad I did this. I’m not even sad to see the M50’s go anymore.
I had planned 2 or 3 hours for the installation and it took all damn day. For some reason this room is built differently than the rest of the house (I have 5 in and on wall Axioms in my family room), there is no access to the wall cavities from the crawl space. I’ve never seen anything like it, the room is not an addition so I don’t know why it’s different from the rest of the house. After spending a lot of time down in that dungeon, and a lot of time “ negotiating” a new plan with the house decorator, I ended up just running the wire down to the baseboard and out the wall through a coaxial wall plate. It was the cleanest option. She wasnt thrilled but said “I guess I’ll get used to it”, lol.
So, CanesFanlnVA you are in for quite a treat! Detail, clarity, soundstage, spaciousness, and, I have no idea where all that bass is coming from! I’m sure mojo can throw in a few more descriptive terms if you need them but bottom line is, you’re going to be happy.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/U5StcgLKgukC5TMn6

They’re a tad higher on the wall than I wanted but there was compromising that had to take place with the decorator. And We do listen to them a lot while shooting pool.

Mike,

I’m glad you are enjoying them. That makes me even more excited to get mine. I’m hoping they’ll ship tomorrow or Tuesday so I might have them before the weekend. Mine will be set up as surrounds but I’d love to talk the wife into letting me set up a pair upstairs. I should also be putting in my order for a power amp in a few weeks as well.

They look really good on your wall.

I have yet to setup the M5s as the main speakers (in the HT they are used as surrounds). Since I m starting the HT wall rebuild soon I think I’ll move them up stairs to try in the family room.

There they will have to fill some pretty impressive shoes as the quality of sound from the family rooms M2/EP500 combo is amazing ... it a surprise to get such a full and clear sound from such a small speaker ... more so then even the actives as you don’t expect it.

Alone I expect the M5 to out perform the M2 but when combine with the EP500 ... we will see

I don't want to influence your opinion Rich so I won't remark about how the M5s sound more real than the the M2s regardless of subwooferage. It took about 25 hours of playing the M5s before I could say they sound better.

Mike, I'm very happy for you. I should point out you weren't comparing the M50v4 with the M5s. I think your M50s are v2 or v3. I still really like the M50v4 and wish I could switch any Axiom speaker with a dedicated mid to the low def sound of the M50 at times.

I'll also just repeat that the M50 and M3 sound like 480p and the M2 and M5 like 720p. The M100 is 1080p and the active LFRs are 4K.