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Hi everyone. I'm going to replace my direct radiating side surrounds with either the QS4 or QS8. I have Monitor Audio speakers for fronts and center and have read the QS4 or QS8 shuld be a good match. Can you guys recommend one ove rthe other and why?

Thanks
Legairre

If I have my facts correct, they're going to sound pretty much the same, with the QS8s reaching a little lower in frequency response. The real decider should be how far away they are from your listening area. The QS8s will do better in larger rooms, because they will handle more power.

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Radden Home Theater

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Hey I remember seeing this system somewhere...you post over on the Club Rotel site, don't you Legairre? Nice setup!

Not that much of a price difference between the 4s and 8s and with what I'm seeing with your system I'd almost go with the 8s myself. But that's me.

QS8's. Cause once you get the QS4's hung up on your wall you will just start dreaming.. .hmmm. . . I wonder how the QS8's would sound up there. . .

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QS8's. Cause once you get the QS4's hung up on your wall you will just start dreaming.. .hmmm. . . I wonder how the QS8's would sound up there. . .

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Uh huh, boy do I hate that feeling.

You guys are a bad influence and sure to be costing me money cause that is exactly what I'm doing. I'm looking at my 2 week old QS4's going, Hmmm wonder if I should upgade them while the return shipping is free and the upgrade cost will never be cheaper?

I'm the innocent victim here! Wonder if my wife will buy it?

Yep it's me. I really need to update my site. I sold the Rotel RSP-1066 pre amp and bought a Sherwood Newcastle P-965 and I gave the JBL speakers to my brother and replaced them with Monitor Audio speakers this week. I still have the Rotel RMB-1095 and RB-1050 amps so I'm still a Rotel guy. Looks like I'm a Rotel guy and soon to be an Axiom guy too, once I pick up the QS8.

Man I agree you guys are killing me. Here I was thinking most people would say "save a few bucks and get the QS4", but nooooooo. You guys are all pushing the bigger is better thing on me. Now I'm not disagreeing with any of you. I hate saying "would have, could have, should have", so it's the QS8 for me.

We have pretty much given up on telling anyone to save a few bucks and get the one which will be fine for them. Everyone who does that ends up upgrading BEFORE THE FIRST SPEAKERS EVEN COME IN so they don't even get a chance to listen to the VP100, QS4, M50, whatever.

Now we just tell people to buy the one they really want. Seems to work much better for everyone...

EDIT -- Seriously, the problem is that as far as we know nobody on the board has had a chance to compare QS4 and QS8 directly. Axiom says (and they have never steered us wrong yet) that the two speakers sound quite similar so QS4s are the way to go with a moderate sized room and QS8s are the way to go as your room gets larger. Roughly the same deal as VP100 vs. VP150.

There are a few anecdotal hints that the QS4 just might match the M3/M40/M50 family tonally a bit better while the QS8 is closer to M2/M22/M60/M80, but (a) nobody at Axiom has every said anything like that (it's just the way they pair up the speakers in their HT combos), (b) there are only a couple of data points, not enough to have any confidence in the conclusion, and (c) I repeat nobody here has heard the two side by side so we're all just guessing.

The most common pairing does seem to match the Epic pairings, ie QS8s with M22/M60/M80 and QS4s with M3/M40/M50. I run QS8s with M2s which does not follow the pattern but I figure Axiom just felt that nobody would be dumb enough to use $500 surrounds with $300 mains

Since you've just described my setup, I have to say, "Thbbt!"