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Well, for kicks, and by a stroke of inspiration I took my M2s (which I use for channels 6 and 7 in a 7.1) and moved them to my front soundstage.

So...I have my M60s bi-amped to the A/B channels on my receiver. But with the top connectors on the M60s I bi-wired with my M2s. So basically, I have the same amount of drivers as an M80 and theoretically I should be pushing 4 ohms as well.

Bottom line, it sounds fantastic. The speakers on the towers wouldn't be aligned the same as on an M80, but it's still very impressive. I may just have to get the M80s someday!

No wonder you are a misfit toy, I guess I might be too!! I posted a similar situation, as I have been weighing the 80s , and 60s. But my room won't allow me to put my existing 22s in the rear. We recently bought a lot, and will be building a new home shortly, so that always justifies the ol upgrade logic. That will be one sweet HT room whem I'm done!! but for now I talked about putting the 22's and the 80s or 60s up front also. I have opted for the 60s cause in the new home the HT room will be 18x25x9, I run (2) earthquake 580 watt subs, (3) QS-8s, and the 22s will go to the rear, I think that is certainly adequete. So I will have my new 60s (due tuesday) and I will put the 22s up front, and if it's to congested-sound wise, I'll have to put them in the den, however, rarely is anyone in that room, so that kinda bothers me that the 22s would be wasted, so I am trying to integrade them some how without being silly.

dude, wire them into your livingroom so you can play the nice music during parties

If my grandparents can do it, so can you

- D

MT, interesting to read how good your M602s sound. One point though, if you're simply using the A and B terminals there're no separate "channels" involved; it's just a parallel connection to the one amp channel, so no biamping is in effect.

Right JohnK. It's just a lot cleaner cablewise with the biamp(like) setup. Although I have to say...my front soundstage never sounded so good. Those M2s may have to become a permanent resident sitting RIGHT on top of my M60s. I'll probably replace the rears with another pair of QS8s and I am still quite intrigued to get a pair of M80s now.

All in good time I guess. In the meantime this has been fun. I think I'll leave it like this for a spell...see what I think of it for a variety of movies and games and whatnot. Overall though I find it actually adds to movies...adding a greater sense of volume and clarity.

I took my Yamaha to reference level wired like this and it sounded really good. It has yielded a better soundstange than I had anticipated. I haven't found it to be too bright, or too loud, or too out of balance. Amazing speakers Axioms are. I'm a proud owner...no matter what arrangement I'm running them in