Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners The M80's just got here....the AMP will not work

Hi,
All and each Axiom speakers pass a final performance test prior to being boxed which eliminates wrong internal wiring. A hard and severe shock while in transit might have caused internal damages. Because of the memory foam type used by Axiom for superior protection ; such an occurence might not be apparent.
I agree that each M80 should be powered individually helping at determining if one of the two speakers was roughly handled durng transit.

Well maybe I pushed that one ..... but all manufacturers count on things going "south" ..... in the field, after delivery ... the world is not a perfect place and things happen during delivery or with users ..... and ocassionally after product testing in house by a human....a fight with the wife, a bad day, etc............. just saying

they are actually tested by an android that is incapable of error.

Their QC is a phone or tablet?

No Lieutenant Commander Data, he needed a job after he retired from the Federation and outlived his crew. Here is is running frequency sweeps on Bob's 80's before they left the shop.

OK, any manufactured product can be bad. Nothing is 100%.
But the problem is more like what sirquack said. It just can not handle the M80's. Since i can find no real info from Onkyo on this amp,plus have no idea what this protection circuit is.
I'd rather go with the QSC, which has a big protection circuit, which is not likely to blow up. Rather then risk a vintage amp.
Basically if the M80's shut down this amp...then the speakers are at fault, and i can send them back. To be honest, i'm not in the mind set to pull all the drivers out of these speakers, to check stuff. At least at this point.

I tried to find any and all info on the Onkyo amp. The only thing is i did find a review, where the guy said, great amp, but don't try to run 4 ohm speakers on it. I now have to believe the guy 100%.

That one guy does seem to have the credentials. I'm all for it.

Bob, why are you so reluctant to run one M80 on your amp at a time as many have suggested?

It would seem this would be the easiest and fastest way to determine if it is in fact a single M80 that has a bad crossover component etc. If the amp shuts down driving either one M80 then you will know it is that speaker causing the problem, if it shuts down for both, as grunt mentioned, it is most likely your amp and the M80s do not like each other at which time I would then go ahead and purchase the QSC amp as I highly doubt you would have 2 speakers damaged in transit.

Big ONK, Integra M504 with Onkyo TXNR 1007 driving the Thiel CS 3.6 towers. Surrounds left to the receiver's amp sections.

I like the compressed air. What speaker is that behind your equipment?