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Re: Denon receiver for Axiom 4ohm speakers (M80)
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Thought...."what the heck, I'll post this here".....
So, I'm going through a few old boxes of magazines, junk and other bits and pieces and I found my owners manual(s) for my old/first JVC stereo system from a-way-back in 1981. I'm flippin' through the manual for the receiver, model R-S7, (which didn't cost me much in a package deal including a turntable, cassette player and a couple of no-name speakers) and this is a bit of a surprise......my "cheap" JVC receiver is rated at 55w per channel at 8 ohms AND ALSO is spec'ed to run 4 ohm speakers at 70w per ch(!) with a claimed THD of .03%.
Huh!!
Half of communication is listening. You can't listen with your mouth.
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Re: Denon receiver for Axiom 4ohm speakers (M80)
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Do yu still have that receiver? Are you going to try it out with the Axiom's?
Jason M80 v2 VP160 v3 QS8 v2 PB13 Ultra Denon 3808 Samsung 85" Q70
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Re: Denon receiver for Axiom 4ohm speakers (M80)
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Yup. It's in it's orig box in the basement.
Half of communication is listening. You can't listen with your mouth.
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Re: Denon receiver for Axiom 4ohm speakers (M80)
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Hoarder.
::::::: No disrespect to Axiom, but my favorite woofer is my yellow lab :::::::
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Re: Denon receiver for Axiom 4ohm speakers (M80)
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Adrian,
Those old stereo receivers had excellent power supplies and all but the very crappiest will usually drive 4-ohm loads. The power supply and big fat heat sinks only had to deal with two amplifier channels rather than five or seven as in today's AV receivers. So current flow and cooling weren't the problem they present in many current 7.1 receivers when they're connected to low impedances.
The only exceptions I recall were some of the tweaky British brands sold with plenty of smoke and mirrors (including notorious brand that refused to divulge rated power output and other specs). On the test bench, some of those didn't meet spec with one channel driven into an 8-ohm load, let alone 4 ohms.
Cheers, Alan
Alan Lofft, Axiom Resident Expert (Retired)
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