 Re: POLL: Axiom Amp rack mounting?
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Where's the "kill the elephant" option?
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Re: POLL: Axiom Amp rack mounting?
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My personal opinion, and the reason I asked about rack mounting in the other threads, is that a rack mounting might open Axiom up to a bigger market. With more "whole house installs" being done, a powerful, flexible, eight-channel amp offers more to an installer than a typical 5 or 7 channel amp.... and an installer might prefer rackmount. My gut feeling (no inside knowledge, remember??) is that the "whole house install" is the reason why this amp has an even-numbered of channels. Certainly it's been considered as a use.
Generally when we build a rack at work for a client half of the components are not rack mountable anyway so we just end up using a shelf. Like what has been mentioned however, Im not sure how much this thing is going to weigh so its possible that rack mounting is not even an option for a heavy peice of equipment like that unless it had a large enough faceplate to spread the load out. This one seems rather small.
And also for integration use we would generally see some type of control, RS232, IR, whatever, so im guessing that this has not really been designed for a integration market.Most of the whole house audio type of amps on the market are only rated at 30-50 wpc so this one definetly would be a bit overkill 
Last edited by Haoleb; 04/10/07 04:33 PM.
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Re: POLL: Axiom Amp rack mounting?
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It seems to me that, for the target market, optional mounting ears would be desirable. Front ear mounting a heave piece of equipment is difficult from an engineering perspective since they tend to sag in the back. No idea how heavy this guy is, but I suspect it's pretty darned heavy with all the power conversion going on inside.
Optional mounting brackets have been a mainstay for data and telecom equipment for years. Most gear similar to Axiom's Amp form-factor ships with both ears and rubber feet. Install that which you need, throw the rest away. For some equipment, especially the heavy stuff, its an additional cost, which I don't really see as a downside if Axiom chose to do it that way.
Right now, the only rackmount option is to buy a shelf at, what, $100? Paying an extra $20 for Axiom to throw in some rackmount brackets is quite a deal.
Ken.
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Nothing you can't solve with some careful welding and a few screws. 
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Re: POLL: Axiom Amp rack mounting?
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Actually, I don't think the tooling would be all that expensive. Offer a plain metal front as an option to the fancy, curved, machined alumminum front they're planning.
Farmed out to a shop with a plasma or lazer cutting table, one sheet of steel could provide enough fronts for a couple of years.
Shawn
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Re: POLL: Axiom Amp rack mounting?
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I had some rack mount stuff when I was a pseudo soundman. I had this rackmount carver preamp fm tuner with remote. it was sweet. I'm not setup for rackmount now, but back in the day I loved the look of a healthy rack  I think it was mark who talked about rack mount option has to be designed into the product, because of weight distribution. i concur. you cant easily slap a couple of ears on any old chassis and expect it to be supported.
Last edited by Randy_Perkins; 04/13/07 04:49 AM.
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Re: POLL: Axiom Amp rack mounting?
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:::Bump:::
Just wanted others, including Amie, to see the results of the poll..... (since I messed up and made viewing the results two weeks out from the initiation of the poll!!!)
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