Originally Posted By: SRoode
The sound is INCREDIBLE! It really does sound punchier than the AVR-3806. Very clear and tight. The wife said it was not even close (she liked it better than the AVR-3806), but it was a bit more close for me. Definitely punchier and tighter sound. If it sounds just as good unbridged with a higher output headroom before overtemp, I may leave it that way and hook the VP180 up now.

So it is pretty close to his receiver's built in amp, just the performance increase you'd expect from more power.

The problem is, it gets outside of its specified performance parameters a little too easily with the power supply he was originally using.

Pioneer PDP-5020FD, Marantz SR6011
Axiom M5HP, VP160HP, QS8
Sony PS4, surround backs
-Chris