Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners M3 Crossover setting

I am sure that Ian will chime in at some point, but from what I have experienced the speakers can handle a very large amount of wattage.. just as long as what is being put out is clean power and not clipping. this will be true for most speakers.

Axiom performs extensive testing on all products and components. One of the most interesting is the "torture chamber", where they drive speakers to the point of exploding...literally!

The room has trophies of those drivers that have sacrificed themselves for our listening pleasure!

Clovis and I were chatting in our e-mail system about this. It is no problem to run the M3s full range from the receiver. Our entire line of product is designed to take lots of power no problem. To give you an idea I am running my LFR1100s with an ADA1500-2 to each speaker. That is 1300 continuous watts to each speaker with usable dynamics about 3 times that. It is really loud and clean.

It is reassuring to hear from... the President... of Axiom Audio that running the M3(v3) on full range frequency at -20db volume by my 120 watt (8 ohm) AVR does not pose a risk.

I had mentioned in a previous post that I used to power these M3s with a Rotel RA06SE stereo integrated amplifier so i guess it goes without saying that they were played as "Large" speakers.

I did refrain from specifically mentioning my email feedback from Ian as I felt it seemed irrelevant or inappropriate to share a one on one correspondence. But Ian's revelation has tempted me to share my correspondence with Thomas "TJ" Baust, Customer Technician from Sound United (Definitive Technology).

As you may know I am working on fixing my faulty Prosub1000 and in that regard he has been very helpful in his prompt replies. I did use this opportunity to ask him some questions like I would on a forum like this.

He had specifically advised me to run the BP6B tower on 60hz (small) to minimize the risk of "blowing the speakers".
I don't know what's more funny; the risk of witnessing an orgasmic explosion after "blowing" the speakers or referring to a tower speaker with 60hz range limit.

I immediately followed up with another query (given his prompt Artificial Intelligence like replies) on using a stereo integrated amplifier like the aforementioned Rotel to power the BP6B...Silence. I sent him another email... Silence. I went into my gmail sent items to check if the email message was delivered and it was. I haven't witnessed this much silence since Benjamin Netanyahu's forty four second hush at the 2015 UN general assembly.

Having a forum of a transparent nature like this where even harsh criticisms, reviews and complaints of its products and services are tolerated is what makes this (in my opinion) a great organisation.

If I did want to end this comment with a question it would be: Would it be ethical to sell a floor standing speaker like the BP6B without recommending that it not be powered by traditional two channel high fidelity amplifiers / receivers without crossover controls? Of course I had read somewhere that the term "Business Ethics" is an oxymoron so I wouldn't be surprised over this established fact.