Ok, around 6 months ago my accommodation was condemned through neglect by the local council. This was a predicament that saw all tenants homeless within 4 hours of the councils inspection of the property. Thankfully, the council showed mercy and we were effectively given 72hrs grace to relocate. To cut a long story short, most including myself were placed into emergency housing (HMO) and others into hostels. The place that I found myself in is decent, clean and with good facilities but my system which was built for a bigger room had to go. I could not use it in an HMO.

After much ado flogging most of my mid-Hifi gear off I needed (wanted?) a pair of powered speakers for the sake of space and peace with the neighbours, landlord and the law. I tried a few options ranging around £200-250 region but could not settle on any of them and while they were good speakers (JBL 305mk2, MAudio BX5BT) they still were just a little too much for the room. 

In come the M60 from Edifier in Oak. The room size is around 3 x 4m with a slant to one of the walls and a tall ceiling, softly furnished with good carpet and full length curtains. A nice smallish room. So after moving the aforementioned monitors on I took a punt at the M60. They seemed to impress a lot of people, even Erin at Erin’s Corner whom is a reliable point of view on YouTube concerning audio gear, speakers specifically. 

After unboxing and setting up I went through all the connection and Bluetooth comparing each to each other using a iFi Zen Dac Air (1st black version). The 1st version of the Air specifically the black one is the one to get imo. It’s half the price of the new V2 with USB B connection and it’s on power port. The V2 has a combined USB C port for power/date and doesn’t have the Burr Brown chip! The V2 has the Cirrus Logic basic CS43131 chip which can be found in most entry level stuff these days including Fiio’s KA11 dongle! It’s not a bad chip but the Burr Brown is better, anyway I digress, the M60 is now up and running.

I have some upgraded cables leftover from my more expensive previous set up, I don’t like to sell in good cables, they make a big difference to any system and the M60 to my surprise was resolving enough to prove my point, again. I used a Transieth 7n OCC power cord and a 7n OCC 4 pin din (Nancys Integrity Store - Ali Express) to connect master and slave. It’s important to remember that is you are going to feed the master speaker with a quality power cord the connecting the slave speaker should be on a par with the power cords quality otherwise, weakness! 

Well, what can I say? For the room size and circumstance the M60 hit the sweet spot and very well! They delivered an excellent tonality and delivered that with easily enough grunt to fill this smaller room but without destroying my neighbour’s life in the swing of the bat!  
The bass is ample, tuneful, punchy and highly entertaining while the rest of the frequency’s knit into the spectrum with a cordiality that one would wish for is more areas of life. Very well balanced sound. These are an excellent little speaker from Edifier and for a small room I find myself humbled by what these can actually provide without any degradation of sound quality. 

Some have said they wish for a sub out on these but I find no need for that sub out. I’m a big fan of mid bass and Edifier have tuned these deliciously in that area. Vocals are clean and the centre image (while not quite mid-fi) is sharp and accurate enough to pinpoint various aspects of the music. 

Very good build quality, quite a solid feel to the little box indeed.

So it’s a result! It’s a win for me and for my circumstance and even the budget Audiophile in me. Job well done Edifier.

Edifiers M60 is an answer!