I agree with you. My son is 22 and he lives in NY; I have listened to his system a couple of times and he will probably be moving in the future. I bought his system as a starter and it does sound pretty good. I intended to upgrade it a little bit at a time. The whole system was about $1,000 at the time and I know that is not a lot of money for these types of systems. But it is a lot of money for me and his room is quite small. My comment about CDs was intended to ask for advice concerning improving the system for just listening to music, because he also uses his HTS as his stereo. I thought that bigger main speakers would improve that aspect. I believe that the m22 are the way to go even though the cost (with stands) is about the same as the m40??? Not sure what the difference in performance is, if any? Thanks for your input and I will keep u informed on my progress.