Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Receiver vs Separates

He doesn't recommend Onkyo units when driving a 4 ohm load. I have an older Onkyo for H/T (non Axiom) that I am extremely happy with.

Keep in mind, the $50 Radio Shack meter is great for calibrating and what not, but it is not as fast as some of the more expensive meters.

For example, you could have a 15-20dB jump during a dynamic passage of a song, however, the Radio Shack meter may only show you a 5dB swing as it can't react in time like professional lab meters.

I believe this was the problem I was having when my previous Emotiva amp kept shutting down my 80s. The meter only showed jumps of 5-6dB, when in fact I was getting 15-20dB spikes.

got my 805 in last night. set it up (putting sub out plugged into multi-channel first of course - rookie mistake-), and played away. Sound was ok, but was lacking something. Lopsided sound, too bright. I was shutting things down, pressing buttons here and there to see what they did (what? read the manual you say? bleh), and ran into the magic button- 'pure audio'. Big big grin. "Oh, so -that's- what bass is supposed to sound like" very very nice. I'm looking forward to the endless hours of tweaking. My system is currently in the bedroom while I finish up a living room remodel, so I can only discover so much. But having fun so far.
Thanks for the input everyone.