wilsom MAXX3 or Evolution Acoustics MMThree ?

JaneB: The room is actually larger than portrayed in the pics. Unfortunately it isn't audio friendly and has to serve primarily as a living space so my understanding wife and I can share the space effectively.

Is the sofa in the wrong spot? Absolutely..... but short of moving it every time I fire up the system I live with the trade off.

Jtinn is right, I would expect the speakers to overload the room if it was too small. Instead they sounded like smaller speakers which could not load the room effectively.

The MM2's adjustability helped me work with the room's shortcomings and provide the bass foundation I was searching for.

Dev: You're right, a room problem exists but my point was to highlight the fact that the MM2's were able to be adjusted to provide the response that the Maxx's never were able to. Not many can claim to have heard BOTH the Maxx 3's and MM2's in the same room. I can. I am not slamming the Maxx's not one bit. They are an incredible speaker. What I am saying is that the MM2's open the doors to more environments due to their adjustability and to take this into consideration when making the upgrade leap.

Enjoy the tunes!

Ed

Hello Eddie,

The MM2's look wicked .... nice setup !

regards,

Ed, please describe how the frequency response graph was derived. Is that curve at the primary listening position?

The MM2's certainly get me salivating! Wish I could fit them into my budget.

Ed and JTinn, look up the wave length of a 20hz bass note.. I think you will find that the effect of trying to reproduce low end notes in a small space is to fall off the propagation of the wave of the note. This is akin to the effect that one hears when you are several feet away from the car with booming subwoofers...you can hear and feel the note far more in fact than the driver of the offending vehicle.
Additionally, you are artificially damping the wave from the speaker with your couch, thereby altering the note and probably diminishing it as well. Which all leads me to my conclusion as to why Ed has been so unhappy with his bottom end reproduction... Frankly, I am amazed that he is pleased now! I wander if you had a more appropriate sized speaker on stands that could span the couch height what you would think then!