Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions 4 ohm vs 8 ohm

It's a tough call. With your current receiver, you probably would be happier with the M60s in the sense that you could probably get a higher clean sound level from the 60s than the 80s. Obviously the situation would be different if you bought a new receiver in the future which could handle the M80s (pretty much anything from HK, NAD, Denon plus most separate power amps).

If you think you are likely to upgrade the receiver in the future then going with 80s might make sense -- the downside would be that you would need to limit the volume to a level where the receiver didn't go into shutdown. You would still get some pretty decent sound levels IMO, but probably not as good as with M60s.

Wish I could give you more specific answers, hope this helps.