Welcome Matt. I'll echo others here that dakkon is a good guy. Things get 'lost in translation' on the internets.
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Yes, that is Oakville Ontario...
You are so close to Axiom, why not drive up to Dwight and listen to Axiom's offerings at the factory? The plant tour is pretty cool too!
Anytime someone asks about amps, the no amp crowd flock to the thread like fly's to s**t.
Bzzzzzzzzzz. You called?
I'm in the no separates camp myself. Most of the time, I'm not drawing more than one or two amps in my small room to get up to reference. Find an
online calculator and play with it a bit to get a sense of how power requirements work. For the Crown calculator you need to add 5 db to the speaker sensitivity to account for being in an enclosed space (room gain). You will be surprised how little power you need most of the time.
In the end, you need to go for what makes you comfortable.
Let us know what you end up with.
