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If you consider what your getting on the inside, they are not to much.

No, I don't doubt that, but for a 3ch and two 2ch's at $5000 cdn it is double what I want to spend.I figure at $2500 - $3000 I can get away with her giving me a disgusted ...your frickin crazy look..... and I think with the Axiom's a HSU or two and a denon as a pre pro I am gettting away pretty good. We won't go the drum route yet ,if she ever puts two and two together I could be kissin A&& for a while. She probably does but, I guess that why I drive a 91' escort and she drives a 04' sunfire so I figure we're even in the end.

But seriously I need to put limits on this and $3000 is the most I want to spend.... I am also going to put out $2500 - $3000 in a few years for a pre/pro.

wouldn't it be sweet if axiom comes out with $2995 on their amp

I have a Denon 2105 (90W/channel) driving 7 speakers and my EP600 in my 4,000 cubic foot room. I paid $Can350 a few years ago for it. In my opinion, this is all anyone should ever need in "normal" home theater environments (no flaming on my opinion please ). Someday, I may get a $3,000 amp to impress my friends even more .

My mono's are just to drive my 80's, no real reason I need more amps for the other speakers. Ok, maybe the center some day, however, my Denon does just fine with the other 5 speakers.

For about $1500 I have basically an equivelent to a $7-8,000 Symphonic Line amp, not to shaby and my 80's have never sounded so good.

Axiom man, I'm using the rotel combo which is 1075 amp and 1068 pre/pro. I love the combo and I can truly hear a difference over my denon 2803 receiver since I moved into another house with much bigger square footage. The denon was fine, but it started clipping when I played at high volumes, but with the rotel I can play it all day and it sounds very clean. I think the whole combo was near $3000 which is better than paying $3000 for a flagship receiver.

I'm a huge Rotel fan as well. You wouldn't be disappointed with these products ereed has mentioned. That being said, they would cost much more than Emotiva or Outlaw.

I'm using an Adcom GTP 880 prepro and 2 carver m-400t 2ch amps. I was using one side of a carver tfm-35 for the center, but it's in for service at the moment so I'm running phantom center. I bought one of the m-400t's new in 1985 when 200 wpc was not so common. I had never had more than 15 wpc and was tired of running out of amp- problem solved. The carvers produce ZERO heat, they are far and away the coolest running components I own. If I was buying new today, the axiom amp would be my first consideration, followed by Rotel, Adcom, Oddesy, etc. If you're a careful shopper you can score some spectacular 2ch amps used. The Carver m-1.5t was $1k in 1985 and considered a bargain new, you can get a nice one used for less than half that. Same with other brands.

Glad to hear you're enjoying your new amps! It's good news that there are no shutdown issues. It seems your amp 'odyssey' is over!


If you remember a few weeks ago you said:

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Good point Rick, and one I've been wanting to ask as well. Seems many like to reference articles and base everything on math, etc., but have they actually been involved in real world test themselves.

I'm looking at a Russound AB-2 switcher so I can jump back/forth between my Denon and Amps. I plan to invite some friends over for some tests. I'm not even going to tell them what they are testing.

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Are you still planning this informal test? I'd be curious as to the results.

I don't have friends that come over
actually my brother is also over to see if I got something new. He will be over next month when the new HSU comes in and say how his $400 Reel 12 is a better sub.
He is already squakin that his Futureshop Athena's are better
He keep trying to up me but keeps getting worse. ex. is he went from Monitor Audio Bronze to the friggin FS Athena's