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Hmmm... if it wasn't for bad luck I don't think I'd have any luck when it comes to this subwoofer. I got the amp in yesterday morning, I was thrilled! I removed the old amp, installed the new amp and turned on some music... awesome!!! All those statements about not needing $2200 dollars worth of bass, blah, blah, blah... out the window, I was completely happy! The more music I tested out on it, the bigger my smile got.

Then I tried a movie.

Now I'm still not sure what the problem is, so I'm trying hard not to be negative, but the performance of MY EP800 was less than spectacular. And of course spectacular was what I was expecting. It's still unclear to me what is going on, but it sounds a lot like it's bottoming out, which I thought was impossible with Axiom subwoofers? I would accept it if it were something that happened once or twice during really low frequency scenes during the movie, but it's happening constantly, throughout the movie, and it get's very annoying. I've taken the amp back out, and made sure there was nothing in the way of the cone. I taped the wires back to the support beams to make sure they weren't somehow hitting the back of the cone during it's travel. I tightened everything up as much as I could. The sound is still there during LFE scenes throughout the movie (Iron Man), and even during the testing stage of the THX setup screen. I took the grill off and watched them work. When the hz get really low and they are really moving is when they start making the noise, and it's not just one of them, it's both of them.

I spent a long time trying to diagnose the problem. I played with the setting of the Denon as well as the setting on the amp. It didn't matter if I had the level set almost to zero, it still made the sound during really low frequency scenes. I can't imagine this is how the EP800 is supposed to play, or there would not be very good reviews floating around out there about it. So once again I'm thinking that something is wrong with my unit. I don't know if somehow the bad amp it came with somehow damaged the speakers before it finally went out or what, but something is definately not right with it. I don't remember Steve's performing like this during the scene in 'Finding Nemo'... his just produced powerful bass.

Mine functions flawlessly during music playback, it's just during the low stuff while watching movies. Which is something I do a lot of, so I'm going to have to find a solution for this problem. It's such a shame. Every other speaker I ordered performs far beyond my expectations, I couldn't be happier with the rest of them. It's just the EP800 during movie time that's letting me down. But like I said, I've never heard anyone else on here complain about their EP800's, or any other subwoofer for that matter, so I'm convinced mine just has something wrong with it. What a bummer.