Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners M80 and VP150 Testing over at Sking Ninja Forum

I'm running my M80s in 2 channel on my 2809 with absolutely NO problems.

Exactly!!

What if you run the M80's with the 4 ohm load of the VP150

Ok, I'll hook up all my Axioms to ONE channel....NOT!!

Still no problems with my Denon's (yes I have done it)

jakewash, you just blew the ninjas mind!

Ok...

The only thing of interest to me here is his claim that the M80's do drop to 2.4 ohms from 10-20hz. I mean, this goes right back to the problems that some have had with Emotiva amps. All along, it's been said here that M80's don't have any impedance drops of that magnitude and that Emotiva was full of you-know-what. But if this guy apparently has confirmed that it does have a pretty serious dip, then doesn't that deserve a little explanation and/or rebuttal from Axiom?

For those that had shutdown problems, were you running your M80's full range? If you had them crossed at anything above 20hz, that should have eliminated the dip, right?

I fully realize that this Ninja character may be full of it too. Perhaps he has an axe to grind with Axiom over the 'issues' with his crossover. But still, this is a bit disconcerting to me.

I'd really like to hear Axiom's opinion on that data.

I agree Peter, I've never seen a graph from a reputable 3rd party showing anything below 4ohms across the frequency response.

What stands out to me (no, I'm not reading the article; I like my blood pressure low) is that he tested with M80tis. There have been significant crossover changes in the transition to v2s. A little birdie told me that it resulted in a much improved sound.

I have not either, and as was stated, if you are using a sub it will not matter anyway since you will be setting you AVR XO to send those lower frequencies to the sub.