Budget is indeed a big concern, since this is my 'secondary' setup - my primary setup is actually with headphones and quite high-quality. Basically, I doubt these speakers would be able to exceed my headphones in terms of pure sound quality, but at least they would be able to provide good sound when I don't feel like putting something on my head. For this reason, I was thinking of actually just buying the M3ti's by themselves - however, the bug got the best of me and I started lusting for the M22ti's. Anyway, budget is indeed a concern, since I just blew another $400 USD on a headphone amplifier. I suppose M2i + STF-1 would be the way to go, since B-stock versions would cost just under $500 USD.