You'd think the M3's were trash after all that. ;-)

Seriously thou, if you are going to have a sub you might as well go M2's all around. Thou I'm running a VP150 with my M3's and the sound stage matches well IMO. A fellow Axiom owner brought his M22's over one day so we could compare and I will admit they had a more pronounced midrange sound. The M3's have a much better low end thou. Anytime I play the M3's by themselves people can't believe all that sound is coming from such a small speaker.