Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Amps for setup

it is very understandable why the receiver would be getting hot with the VP180 as it's spending quite a bit of time around the 4ohm mark. These receivers though they say can support 4ohm, are not in any way designed for the amount of power that gets used. They do not have any real heatsync's inside nor the temperature management to adequately do the job.

You will be far better off to find an inexpensive amp used that can bridge and classed to run down to 4ohm for your center channel.

I have personally given up on trying to run a receiver as they just don't make them at all like they use to. You might not get any better sound running an external amp, but it will run cooler and won't simply fry the other components in the receiver.