I will have to agree with you fully on your review. I bought a new MJ Reference 100mkII a few years ago to match my monitors in my music system, and I found it to be far more musical than other similar priced subs on the market that I have tried. Very clean and tight, and shows little to no colorations when blending it with my speakers. Are you using the RCA input or Speakon connector? I found the later blends much better with my system, and I built a much shorter "upgraded" DIY Speakon connector using solid core copper wire instead of the supplied, lower gauge, very long multistranded one that comes with the sub...the DIY one sounds far better!