So, I’ve had the CM8 package for a few weeks now and given it a chance to run in and I would just like to say that I’m very pleased with them for both movies and music. Very clean and lovely to listen to for long periods (both moderate/high and low volumes) and I would certainly recommend them to anyone who’s looking to demo speakers in their price bracket. It took me a long time to get the setup just right, so I thought I would share a few bullet points from setting these speakers up that may or may not be of any use: The CM8 package sounded good out of the box, though the CMC and CM1’s seem to run in at a different pace to the CM8. This was not a problem but worth noting that it takes a good week of continuous use for the sound to really take off. I used an SPL meter and found the CMC and CM1’s require a bit more juice than the cm8 to get a balanced sound field. In my room +3db on the CMC and +4db on the CM1’s was nice and even. Without this adjustment the centre sounds a bit lost, but with the adjustment it sounds full and rich. Regarding the crossover settings; I went back and forth on this a bit. Vocals and sound in general were better with the CMC set lower, but the crossover was smoother when running the THX crossover test at higher (70 - 80hz). In the end I called B&W (very helpful btw) who recommend that as a general rule, the CM package works best with all channels crossed over to 60hz. This was good advice. Vocals are have good body and sound more natural than when set higher while integration was first rate. However, as my rear speakers are wall mounted, with one right in a corner I found that reducing the rears to 70hz produced the best results as it eliminated boom caused by the room corner. I think that when ideally placed 60hz all round would be a good option, but for me 60 on the front and 70 on the rear works best. One thing I have noticed is that my monitor audio RSW-12 sub cannot quite keep up with the CM8’s speed in the bass and it took a lot of fine tuning to integrate it successfully with the package. Not least because the RSW’s bass sounds a tad coloured in comparison to the CM8’s tight clean bass. But after a lot of adjustment and re-positioning is now sounding very good, but I think ideally this package is best with a faster sub. But I’m still happy with the RSW-12. So many late nights later and the performance is excellent across movies and music. They are well worth the effort, however I keep having too many late nights digging out old CD’s and films J Thanks to all who recommended them!
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