Hi Cork, I smiled when I read your last post ("I don't think I'm even going to need any additional hardware to start with"). I am exactly in the same spot. My plan was to go for M5HP and add Yamaha receiver to start my long belated upgrade of sound & vision system in the basement. But the speakers ended up in the living room, where I have Oppo BDP-103 player with before mentioned Marantz. The Oppo machine can decode pretty much everything I own in digital format, including small collection of SACDs. So now I am less motivated, though Ymaha is surely on my dream-list. Yours and Rebulx enthusiasm for Yamaha is very reassuring and only makes me wanted it more.
Thank you for the compliment on cherry/cinnamon. The color works great in pretty much any room, it is lively enough to not be boring but does not burn your eyes out. Perfect harmony with the sound speakers generate
. Axiom workshop is doing amazing job putting those things together.
What colors are yours and have you already received them or not yet ?
