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there is always Johnamps.

Upgraditis is OK and healthy as long as you are getting value for your money and it isn't leaving you short in other aspects of your life (mortgage, car payment, fights with sig. other).

What ever you choose, remember to enjoy the experience.

paul

Paul, irrelevant analogies about cars are neither necessary nor helpful.

I like the car reference, Im a car guy! Keep at it Paul......

Ok, maybe the car analogy wasn't spot on the issue, but the question still stands; how do you know you are not damaging your driver(s) until the damage is done? The answer is you don't. This is essentially what we call a destructive testing. When I sit and set the volume to SPL level peak of 100 db, I don't get any damage. If I want to go to 101 db will it do damage, the only way to know is to try it. Hmm, "Are you feeling lucky, P@#K". Ok, only kidding. But once you hear the damage, it's too late. I know this from experience (not with my Axiom's BTW).

I am not saying receivers are bad, actually I think they are very practical. You just need to understand their limitations and act accordingly. If not, you'll be opening your pocket book to repair speakers. I just choose instead to open my pocket book to get more power to minimize the possibility of speaker damage.

paul

Lol, hey Paul don't get too defensive about it, there's no need to hang your head in shame. Finding a power amp inside your AV closet isn't like finding a marijuana cigarette in your hand, you don't have to exclaim, "I USE IT FOR MADICINAL PURPOSES ONLY"!!!

Everyone who listens to music HAS to have a power amp. Some chose to stick with the one's that fit nice and neat inside a reciever, others chose the one's that a reciever could fit inside of. With as many differing opinions as there are in this hobby, it comes as no surprise that power amps are as hotly debated as they are. But it's not the sort of thing where guys who own recievers are the good guys and those of us with power amps are the bad guys.

Ed Begley Jr rides a bicycle around when he's out and about running errands, going to visit a friend and so on and so forth... a bicycle is all anyone really 'needs'. How many of us ride bicycles around everywhere we go? I ride a two wheeled rocket ship around that sucks down dead dinosaur blood and puts 175 hp to the pavement in a violent and dangerous manner... there's no way I can defend my reasoning for doing this other than to say, "it's just the kinda guy I am".

I could get by with a 50 watt per channel reciever just as easily as I could get by the Ed Begley Jr way... hell for that matter I don't NEED to eat meat (like that delicious porterhouse I just had), have sex (already have two kids) or tell my fiancee I love her everyday (I already gave her a ring saying that didn't I???)... but hey, that's just the kinda guy I am folks.

4 Yamaha 2 channel M80s, Integra processor, dedicated 15 amp line, Thiel CS3.6s, center channel - modified Merak MC6H with twin Axiom 6.5" drivers and an Axiom/Merak horn tweeter, side surrounds, QS8s, back surrounds Michaura M55s, SVS 20-39 plus subwoofer. Works well.

Yamaha M80:
Continous power rating into 8 ohms 250 wpc, 20Hz-20kHz, 0.003% THD [0.02% THD, 330 wpc into 4 ohms]
Dynamic Power, 1kHz into 8ohms 380 wpc, into 4 ohms, 640 wpc.

I had them modified (new caps, donkey dick power cords and new speaker posts.)

Yammie Mammies, M80s, awesome amps - stable to 2 ohm loads never at a loss for power. If you can get your hands on M80s, you won't be disappointed.

Interesting, pushing M80's with M80's!!!

No room for M80s in here.

You're all about the discontinued equipment, aren't you?