Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions What type of speaker wire terminal is this?

You will find those on alot of multi-room and home integration equipment. We call them dongles. Persobally, I hate them.... These have a screw on one side which compresses a metal plate onto the wire. I would rather have spring clips than those. Unless they are a decent size you cant really put any large gauge wire in there and they will not accept anything besides bare wire and perhaps pin connectors. Im not sure if those ones in particular are detachable or not but usually they are and can sometimes pull out a little too easy.

I havent had personal experience with those amps, but all the Xantech stuff I install for work has those and i have never liked them. I mean, theres worse. But any traditional 5 way binding post or spring clip would be better IMO.

As long as they are of decent enough size they shouldnt be too bad, But that alone would be a major deciding factor if i would buy that amp or not. Judging by the size in relation to the RCA inputs i would say that it definetly will NOT accept 12awg without cutting it down to perhaps 16. They also do not provide adequete spacing between the positive and negative terminals to reliably prevent shorting out, also.. IMO.

It sure is one nice looking piece of equipment, and I've read nothing but good reviews about the Emotiva stuff.

I just found a thread over on AV123 where they have mentioned that there was not enough room for dual binding posts like the epm-300 monoblock. They also mentioned that bare 12 gauge wire fits fine, or even using pins. I guess the pictures are misleading.

http://av123forum.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=201236

How do you buy just the chassis?

I had to call their sales number the other day to order it that way. They are updating their new website since AV123 is no longer selling on their products.

Michael (Richeydog) actualy is the one that told me about this design when I was considering Outlaw mono's. It comes standard with 7 of the epm-300 mono's, but you can order just the chassis ($300), epm-300's ($199), or epm-2150's ($249) in any combination.

I'm just getting two epm-300's for now to drive the 80's, and will eventually get a third for the vp150, followed by 2 of the 2150's to drive my Qs8's.

Arg.... sounds like such reasonable prices! Must... resist....

No, not in this case...

This is probably a silly question, but what type of cable do you use to go from your preouts on a receiver to an amp? I know they have to have an RCA male on each end, but do I use coax or the thinner audio cables like below. Of course, I would only need 2-3ft per connection.

Randy, what I've done is just buy 4 regular 3 ft. audio cables, like these from Monoprice and split them. Most will just pull apart easily. That will give you 8 single cables. You only will need 7. Worked great for me, and the price was right.