Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners What would your advice be....upgrade or not?

Oh, I know (know as in figured) all about wild, irrelevant specs and claims. That's part of the fun reading some of the other forums! I was just answering myrison. They are the same price 'cause they use the same number of components(ok, gross oversimplification)!

Well, I have been busy since the last update. I finally got the M60s shipped off and received the M80s. I got my room pretty much done, got some touch up painting to do and some cable managment stuff to work on....but enough about that. This last weekend I got everything hooled up and took everyhting for a spin.

OMG!!!! First off I can not believe the EP500. The whole house was shaking and I could actually feel the pressure changes in the room. Watched a bit of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King on TNTHD saturday night and there was a seen with the wind whipping around which just sounded incredible.

The M80s sound and look amazing!!! I have cranked the Onkyo 805 listening to Blu-rays, CDs and my iPod without any clipping or overheating. I am running the Onkyo at 6 Ohms and have not had any extreme heat at all.

Here is maybe a stupid question, what would clipping even sound like. I have never had this issue and even though I have not had any issue to date I just want to know what exactly I would hear.

Clipping can occur if the amplifier doesn't have enough power to reproduce the signal requested of it at the level requested, it chops off part of the signal and delivers that to the outputs. This results in distortion which can be anywhere from inaudible to a very fuzzy sound depending on how much of the signal is chopped off or clipped. In some cases it may be difficult to distinguish clipping from a poor recording.

Very good, Blu; enjoy.

OB: Enjoy your speakers.