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Get some M60's.

This is just me but if I were in the very same situation I would send the damn thing back and look else where. It's so easy to blame another product and not look into the actual cause of the problem.

I bet a $300 H/K 2 channel receiver would push those M80s just fine.

I am leaning that way, especially as those comments seemed pretty nonresponsive, I may play with the crossover setting first to see if I would have the same problem once I'm running a full 7.1 system, but I'm not sure what the point would be, if the amp can't be counted on to deliver.

Although I use a 2 ch Rotel 200 watt amp for the 80s with an H/K 75 watt AVR635 running everything else in the past I have had the H/K running the 80s to pretty darn loud levels for fairly long periods of time without a hitch and for the past year or so it has been running an 8 ohm VP100 parrelled with a 6 ohm VP150 (3.45 ohms) perfectly fine.

I know a Rotel amp will run those 80s easily.

You got that right BrotherBob

I was going to add "Ain't that right Rick", but I didn't want folks to think I was talking to myself ... again.

I can also vouch for the Outlaw Monoblocks. I can run 115 - 120 db's for as long as I can stand in the house...for about 40 min. after a few beers. I've only done this a few times folks...mostly around the time I got the amps to see how far I could push them.

The amps got toasty... but no shut downs with the M80's. Alot cleaner than the 3805 alone at high levels. I wouldn't consider an upgrade unless Axiom comes out with a 2-channel version (or 3) of the A1400-8.

Was the blood running out of your ears the first sign that the music *might* be a wee bit loud?

I believe anything Outlaw will run the 80s with no problems.

I couldn't sit in front of them the whole time. I live alone, so I also roamed around house while enjoying the music. Beer makes you brave...

SatKartr,

That's a pretty disappointing response from them... you can turn their logic around on them and tell them that if the Axioms DO NOT shut down your AVR when connected directly, but do shut down when connected to the Emotiva, "ipso-facto the Axioms are not the cause, the amp is!" (but maybe I'm just a smart a$$ and would enjoy writing them an e-mail like that after their sub-par effort to assess the problem...)

Jason