Man I’m loving this…………..all this sound in a 10’ X 10’ area……..

Can’t wait to get all these moved to the dedicated room. The 600 volume is just a tad off the bottom. No room to set up the M3’s for the back surrounds. I’m loving the hell out of the twin M22s as a center channel. Can’t wait to have room to set them up vertically.

The M80’s / M22’s….



The 600 tucked away….

The QS-8's are mounted directly above the couch.



………..My girlfriend thinks I’ve gone off the deep end.

It looks good to me . If and when my adult children move out I am putting my M80s in a similar size room.

The 600 must really rock that room.

DO you have problems locating the bass during loud scenes?

I am wondering just because of my own set up I sometimes do... but only when I really think about it...

I wonder at what point (in terms of room size) that this truly becomes a bad problem, as there are so limited choices of location.

Neb

Hey that looks great Mike! The Boston Cherry matches your furniture and accessories. What will the dedicated room size be?

What are the M3s doing there? Center channel? Right or left channels?

Isn't that the point though...NOT knowing where the bass is coming from? I find it distracting when I think I can "find" my subwoofer, but maybe that's not what you meant.

Nice looking setup. When do you anticipate moving to your dedicated room?

BTW - I don't think this is overkill.

Exactly... not knowing... at what point does it become impossible to not know duee to room size?

Neb

When I sit right next to the sub on the couch, yes, I can tell EXACTLY where the bass is coming from no matter how low I set it. But when I get about 2-3’ away from it, no, I can’t tell where it’s coming from - even when I’m sitting in the massage chair directly in front of it. I did have the sub about 12’ behind the couch last week, but couldn’t ever get it right. No matter what I did to it, I could always tell where the bass was coming from so I figured I’d try this out for a while. When I moved the M80’s up here, I had to get rid of a couch that would have been directly in front of the left speaker, so I drug the chair up 16 steps and plopped it where it sits– all 275 pounds of it. Hell, this is all play time anyway? Right? It’s fun to move things around, change settings and buy new stuff just to see/hear what the difference is.

I should be done with the dedicated room in about two months. It’s in the daylight basement and I’m finishing it room by room as I move materials from one room to the other…… (those who’ve remodeled or built a home while living in it should be able to relate to this material shuffle). I just got the first coat of tape/mud on the HT room walls Tuesday. Now I have to hang rock in the spa room and hallway and I’ll be able to finish all the basement walls and lay the tile and hardwood. The dedicated room will be 12’ X 16’ X 8.5’. Not a whole lot bigger than the little loft area in the picture, but definitely more acoustical than the loft.

I have never been a big fan of listening to music in surround before. – until yesterday that is. I’ve been playing with this system and the two channel system downstairs, listening to the same CD’s on both systems back to back trying to differentiate between the two. Plus it gave me an excuse to listen to my SRV and Double Trouble collective three CD set on both systems that I bought at Costco for twenty bucks! Well now I’m hooked! While I love the good ol’ two channel music, listening in surround is incredibly immersive. It’s like being wrapped by music. A very pleasurable experience. And the 600 is just down right amazing! I read a lot of praise about this sub for movie watching, and it is deserving of this praise, but you don’t hear a whole lot about how well it plays music. This thing is sooooooo smooth, so tight, so accurate and powerful in music playback I’m probably going to buy a second one for the two channel system downstairs. If I can figure out where to put one and if Axiom starts making them in a piano black finish to match the Whardales, I’ll be placing an order for one. There’s just no comparison between the 600 and the Outlaw I’m using for that system. I thought the Outlaw was a great sub for music, but the 600 is so much better, I now feel that system is severely lacking.

I’m having a blast with all this great audio gear!! I think I finally “get it”. Before, I just liked to listen to music, now I’m totally hooked and understand why this is more than just a hobby.

I just put them there to fill in the cabinet. I originally built it to size for some old Kenwoods I was using a while back when I bough the TV. Yesterday I built some DVD storage shelves for these areas and the M3's are just collecting dust til I move them to the new room and use them for back surrounds. I was using the M22's for the mains and the M3's for a center. The M22's are now my 'center channel'.

Mike, I think you're going to have to invite everyone over to listen to your stuff.

What!? You live in Alaska?

Mike, Axiom does offer a high gloss black finish that should match your Wharfedales pretty good. You could ask for a sample to see how well it will match.

Mike,

Don't you touch the finish on those M80s. I'll tell you what you do. You just pack those puppies up and Fed Ex them to my house.

Now we know the reason for the H/K, it's to drive some M80s