M22's are lovely and should sound delightful in your room. Do make sure you plan for some kind of subwoofer. The M22's just can't hold down the low-end on their own. A sub will take your M22 setup from 'nice' to 'WOW'. If you're on a tight budget, HSU subs are supposedly very tough to beat for the price.

I've never heard AVR's speakers, but the folks that have them seem to just love them - very similar to us Axiomites. I've lurked around on the AVR forums enough to know that much. Nice folks over there too, kind of a similar vibe as to here. AVR has recently started doing completely no-risk trials (they pay shipping BOTH ways if you return them) on their bookshelf speakers, so you could actually give them a try without any risk.



M80v2 | VP150v2 | QS8v2
SVS Pci+ 20-39
Emotiva UMC-1 & LPA-1
M22ti + T-Amp, in the Office