Originally Posted By: 2x6spds
My tastes in audio equipment is broader than simply M3s driven by a SET tube amp. Anyone who presumes that the tube amp is a distortion generator, words of one of our resident gurus around here, is simply wrong.

A Single Ended Triode tube amp with no negative feedback will easily have 100 times the total harmonic distortion of a solid state, push-pull, with feedback. Granted, the distortion of a SET has a large even-order harmonic component, where as the negative feedback leaves a little odd-order. So the "tube sound" is described as warm or fat, much as playing a chord sounds fuller than a single note, vs. disharmony of random notes which would be compared to odd-order harmonics.

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As to the M3s, yes they are not perfect. That's my point. Although they have what to my ears is a richer sound than the M22s (mine are white) they have an audible hump and hole. BUT, I believe the M3s could be improved to be really world class speakers.

"Richer" sound can easily be attributed to a mid-bass hump.

Pioneer PDP-5020FD, Marantz SR6011
Axiom M5HP, VP160HP, QS8
Sony PS4, surround backs
-Chris