Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Suggested settings for VP-180/M80 setups?

I was just looking at some of the settings and I noticed that the Denon 4810 has a "Speaker Impedance" option. It is set at 8 ohms, but only has an option for 6 ohms. Should that be changed to 6 ohms or leave it alone?

Not relevant to the crossover question, but the setting should remain at 8ohms, as the lower one simply reduces voltage(and as a result, power)available to the speakers.

Leave it at 8 ohms.

John - I turned off the subwoofer, set the speakers to large and popped in a cd with some good bass. The discovery wasn't pretty because the two bottom woofers are not working..:( I bought these used and unfortunately didn't notice it when I listened to them. These speakers were purchased from the original owner last July. I am going to email him and see if will help out some, but he probably won't....Guess that solves the mystery..

Yeah, Jeff; apparently what little bass you were hearing(and Audyssey was measuring)was the amount left after the 5 1/4" mids rolled off under 200Hz.

Now the question is, are both of them blown and will just replacing them fix it? Or perhaps something else internally is wrong...

The center channel is in good shape too.

I watched several scenes from Avatar and then the opening of Toy Story 2. When I did that, it sounded pretty good. Hopefully the rest of the system can clean up the slack until I can get this resolved...

Nice catch JohnK!

Oh, if they were blown, they'd be doing something entirely different. I would guess that the drivers are partially disconnected. Try taking out the woofers and checking those connections.

oh geez... How easy is it to pull them out?

Jeff I had the same thing happen to me with my main M80s and even though the binding posts were tight somehow they weren’t properly making contact. If you are using regular speaker wire pull it out and reconnect it. I’m not sure what it was but maybe for me the plastic washer got in the way. You may have the same problem.

Pulling the drivers out isn’t hard and I would try that next to see if there are any wires loose internally.