Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners To M80 or not to M80? That is the question.

Greetings,

I am thinking about replacing a pair of Infinity Overture 3 speakers with a pair of m80s. I recently compared the Overtures with a pair of M22ti and I must admit that I was a little under whelmed. Though the M22ti speakers had more clarity they defiantly lacked the fullness and depth of the Overtures. I did set the M22’s to small and dial in my sub, which helped somewhat. Also, I found myself wanting to turn up the volume on my receiver to “get more out of them.” I’m currently running a Pioneer VSX-D608, which is rated at 5 x 100 watts.

I’m just wondering if anyone out there has any experience with the Infinity Overture 3 compared to the M80. I listen to 70% music, 20% TV and 10% movies. The music is a lot of classical, big band, and acoustic such as flute, piano, and guitar I’m very concerned with accuracy and clarity from the speakers. Anyone have any suggestions?

Regards,
The Dude

Hello Dude

I had a pair of Infinity Composition Overture 3s up front, an Infinity CC3 center and a pair of Infinity RS3s in the side surround positions. My first experience with Axiom was with an Axiom made Merak MC6H center channel speaker which I grabbed from uBid for a song and intended to give away as a present. On a whim, I swapped it out for the expensive CC3 and was stunned. The Merak was much better.

I then bought a pair of M3Tis, and in my opinion, there was no comparison between the M3Tis and the Infinity Composition Overture 3s, the Axioms sounded much better, more accurate, more revealing, more pleasant than the very expensive Overtures. I sold the Infinities.

I picked up a pair of M22Tis and was frankly disappointed. I don't know if I was unlucky and got an off pair, but to me they sounded flat and a bit lifeless in comparison to the M3Tis. I then tried a pair of M50Tis which are a very nice speaker.

I think the ideal speaker to swap the Infinities for is the M60 or M80s. I'm currently running a pair of M60-like Michaura M665s up front, M50 like M66s in the side positions and finally replaced the Merak with a great big honking Klipsch KLF C7 (2 x 8" drivers and an enormous horn tweeter, the Merak had 2 x 6.5" drivers and a 7"x3" horn tweeter).

There's simply no comparison between this Axiom-like system and the Infinities. The only category in which the Infinities surpass the Axioms is price, the Infinities had an MSRP of about $3000.

Here's a picture:
http://img.audioasylum.com/cgi/i.pl?u=users/11308&f=P3180021.jpg

Sell the Infinities, and don't look back. If you get a bunch of M3Tis or M60s or M80s I feel certain that you will be astonished at how much better and more pleasant the Axioms are.

Here are some more pictures of the Michaura brothers to the Axiom speakers -

M60 like M665

http://img.audioasylum.com/cgi/i.pl?u=users/11308&f=P3180023.jpg

M50 like M66 in the background, M22 like M55 in foreground

http://img.audioasylum.com/cgi/i.pl?u=users/11308&f=P2280010.jpg

Pretty, aren't they?

Ya they are pretty sweet looking set of speakers. Just out of curiosity, whats is that sitting atop the M665?

Ah, that device is a supertweeter, supposeldy good for flat +-3db response to 40KHz. I'm sure I can't hear anything above 15 KHz but some folks say that the harmonics makes the sound you can hear better. DVD Audio puts out music info into the ultrasonic range. Figured I'd give it a try. Dunno. Looks cool. Sounds great!

Hey 2x6,

Are these Michaura real-wood veneered? They look beautiful...

Don't know. Sure looks like Rosewood. The seams are flawless, the look - gorgeous, the sound - incredible.

ha-ha will the michaura's fame ever die-i still love mine