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Re: M80's: Ordered!
littleb #157667 02/05/07 11:26 PM
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Congrats, Peter. I--must--have--the willpower to resist.




Sheesh, get ahold of yourself! Just click the button you big baby!


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Re: M80's: Ordered!
Hutzal #157668 02/05/07 11:43 PM
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Your right, I am a big baby!

Re: M80's: Ordered!
littleb #157669 02/06/07 03:24 AM
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My wife pleading, 'would you just order them already!'




Bingo!

Congrats, Peter. I sure hope you have plenty of room to position those M80's. They're huge and finicky. At least that's what I heard.

I ordered on a Thursday night and got my speakers in WA State on Monday morning, I believe. I'm certain it was two business days plus the weekend.

Call in sick the rest of the week. Enjoy!


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Re: M80's: Ordered!
tomtuttle #157670 02/06/07 04:58 PM
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Believe me, I'm pretty sure I might have the flu on Friday. Luckily my boss doesn't care if I work from home on Friday (I'm an IT guy), so that's a plus.

Just ordered the Emotiva LPA-1 too. I was going to be daring and see how my Pioneer AVR does (>6ohm) with the M80's, but have decided that I really ought to have something rated appropriately to run them. I've had my eye on the Emotiva amps for a couple of months after seeing a few gorgeous photos of the MPS-1 floating around here. Thought I'd give the LPA-1 a shot since it's safe down to 4ohms.

I have read here that the M80's are slightly picky about positioning, but I hope that won't be a problem. My m22's are set up now in such a way that I *think* the M80's will be a drop-in replacement. The m22's are about 3 feet from the back wall, and about 2 feet from each side wall, so the M80's should have room to breathe. My Den/HT room is about 3300 cu/ft, and I have the full support of my wife to move couches, bookshelves, etc as necessary. She's an audio-nut too, so that helps.


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Re: M80's: Ordered!
PeterChenoweth #157671 02/06/07 05:11 PM
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The m22's are about 3 feet from the back wall, and about 2 feet from each side wall, so the M80's should have room to breathe.




Peter I believe you will find that the 3 and 2 foot margins are more than enough room to fine tune your 80s to sonic bliss, you have lots of room to play with.

That's going to be heck of a system connected to the Emotiva, have fun!


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Re: M80's: Ordered!
PeterChenoweth #157672 02/06/07 05:23 PM
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Sounds like you married VERY well, Peter!

I was just muckraking about the M80's. Posse tactic.

Looking forward to your comparison and photos and stuff!


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Re: M80's: Ordered!
PeterChenoweth #157673 02/06/07 05:32 PM
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You should do well in that size room. Where you have your M22s should do great with the M80s but a little tinkering with them might be in order. One thing is for sure don't put the spikes on until you have the final position picked out, they are a bear to move with them on.


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Re: M80's: Ordered!
PeterChenoweth #157674 02/08/07 08:13 PM
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Went home for lunch....

Speakers are delivered (one day early!) !
Amp is delivered!

230+ pounds of audio bliss await me!

Already told the boss that I won't be in tomorrow.

Unfortunately one of the speaker boxes looks like it went through a blender. Lots of torn cardboard. Near the bottom (in the front - <shudder>) it looks like something cut right through the box - a clean deep slice.

I didn't have time to open the box and couldn't tell if the speaker was damaged but I'll be surprised if that speaker isn't nicked somehwere...

That'll be a call to Axiom if it is!


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Re: M80's: Ordered!
PeterChenoweth #157675 02/08/07 08:18 PM
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I had a box that was pretty beat up too. Lucky for me the speaker was in perfect shape. I hope all is well.

Post your opinions and pics.


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Re: M80's: Ordered!
PeterChenoweth #157676 05/06/07 11:31 PM
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Went home for lunch....

Speakers are delivered (one day early!) !
Amp is delivered!

230+ pounds of audio bliss await me!

Already told the boss that I won't be in tomorrow.

Unfortunately one of the speaker boxes looks like it went through a blender. Lots of torn cardboard. Near the bottom (in the front - <shudder>) it looks like something cut right through the box - a clean deep slice.

I didn't have time to open the box and couldn't tell if the speaker was damaged but I'll be surprised if that speaker isn't nicked somehwere...

That'll be a call to Axiom if it is!




Peter,

How does the LPA-1 work with the M80's? I'm looking at a similiar setup, just posted a new thread asking questions on this combo...appreciate it if you'd share your thoughts and experiences!!

Ted


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