I think he meant 9:00 or 10:00 o'clock. However, he should be able to turn the volume up on any Axiom DSP controlled sub to 1:00 or 2:00 o'clock with no issues. As long as he is not over-driving the input signal to the sub with his avr's sub level out, hopefully it's not at +5 or something...

I have my EP500 at 2:00 o'clock for months now without any pops whatsoever. Sub out level set to 0. FYI

Dana

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