I received my M22s for mains and a single m2 for my center on Thursday of last week. It was a long 2 day wait. I hooked them up, and my initial reaction was that the speakers were no nearly as bright as I thought they would be (especially after reading all of the reviews and posts). Listening to the M22s the mids are extremely smooth, and do not offend the ears. These speakers have more bass then I expected also, and it is very tight and accurate bass. The M2 as a center matches the M22s perfectly, I would recommend getting the M2 as a center with the M22s (Thanks JohnK for this advice). I thought I was over the fact that these speakers didn’t have as much clarity after day 2, but listening to these for a solid 6 days now, I’m wondering about this again. I realize that headphones are a different bear then speakers, but when I compare any recording on the M22s to my AKG K-240 headphones, the 240s are way more revealing and clear on the high end. I can pick out little things in recordings on the AKG 240’s that I still can’t on the M22s. Now, on one hand, I think the AKG’s error on having too much high end, but the M22s just don’t reveal everything in the recoding. The second concern I have is in the imaging (This is a big surprise again, considering what all I have read in the post and reviews.) For some reason the image these speakers put out is way wider then I’m used to. This isn’t necessary a bad thing, but voices and stuff that should be coming from a point between the two speakers don’t sound like they are coming from the center….I can still close my eyes, and point out were the speakers are in the room. I moved the speakers closer together, and this seems to have helped, but not solved what I’m hearing. I’m wondering if these all of these issues could be being initiated with my receiver. I’m using a Sony STR-DE 945 receiver. When listening to my headphones, I’m still using all the same components, but I’m just using the Sonys headphone jack. Granted, the amp in the Sony driving the speakers is different them its headphone amp, but this eliminates the CD-Player, ect. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated while I’m still deciding if these are the speakers for me or not.
