I have M22's and they have mediocre bass response, definately a lacking there. They are powered by 90 watts, but a subwoofer is on its way and I have heard the M22's mix beautifully with a sub because of their flat response. I bet the M3's would be just as good with a sub. I'd recommend it. My sub is in the mail now.
P.S. Marvin, what bitrate were you encoding using exact audio copy? I recently started replacing all of my 225 VBR music (encoded with iTunes) with 320kb/s Exact Audio Copy encoded mp3 files. The iTunes mp3 encoder is horrible in quality compared to other mp3 encoders, their mp4 encoder is one of the best though.
Anyways, in reference to the bitrate you were using, how much difference do you notice with lossless?
My computer is at college and I can't really test things out like that now.
Also, make sure you are using digital output from your computer, you will see a huge difference in quality from analog. If you were using analog, switching to digital might make your mp3's sound a load better.
Last edited by danmagicman7; 12/25/05 12:47 AM.
