I'll be curious to hear what Emotiva has to say about this. They're probably getting tired of Axiom owners breaking their amps. ;\) Not sure what these sorts of posts say about their designs though...

I agree with the others. I don't think it's your home wiring. If you're pulling too many amps, I'd think you'd see lights flickering or you'd start flipping breakers. Although would it be possible to pull enough amps that you'd start to affect the voltage? I am NOT an electical engineer - so someone please correct me, but aren't volts and amps related? Could an amplifier go into shutdown mode if it was pulling so many amps that the voltage dropped too much?

For the record, I've never had any problems with my cheap LPA-1 driving my whole system, which includes M80's. I can turn the volume up far past the point where it hurts my ears. No problems at all.




M80v2 | VP150v2 | QS8v2
SVS Pci+ 20-39
Emotiva UMC-1 & LPA-1
M22ti + T-Amp, in the Office