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I am heading up to Dwight this weekend to pick up my M100s I pretty excited to hooked them up .Its one heck of drive but it will be worth it .

Bob M

I am sure the drive will be worth it. The speakers will be great and if you take the time to carry on out to the park the Fall colours should be close to thier peak. Congrats

Hi Bob, I was into Axiom on Fri. and saw your new M100s all boxed up and ready for you with the carpet spikes on top. Let us know how they sound.

It took me 6 hrs there and back but was a nice drive I left at 7:30 not to much traffic . I need to work on set up .Music was a bit boomy I think I need some port plugs .My amp is the ADA 1500 3 channel for centre and left and right .One this I struggle with is how for I have to push volume on my AV receiver .-23 DB is not very loud .Not sure what is up, my hearing is ok .Any help would be great Thank you
Note I ordered these speakers this week and Debbie made arrangements for me to pick up this weekend.Thank you to Jeff Debbie's husband who met me at Axiom at 10:30am
Their customer service is second to none .Thank you both for making this happen for me .

Bob M

Hi Bob, sometimes a mismatch between your pre/out voltage and the voltage gain of the amp cause the situation you are experiencing . If you pre out voltage is too low it will be unable to drive your amp to full power. You may also be driving your pre outs to clipping while trying to get your amp to max power which can introduce distortion at high volumes. It is sometimes difficult to find exact specs for a receiver's output specs. You can find the voltage gain of the amp on Axioms site, they say 2.0v for full power so really you should have no problems with most modern receivers,tell us what u have. Also remember that todays volume controls are logarithmic rather than linear so they react differently. Best to look that one up on google . If you can hit the volume you like without distortion then you are good to go, in they end they are just numbers.

Thats exactly what I was thinking Socketman. As long as you can reach the volume you desire the numbers are just a reference. What speakers were you using prior to the M100s. If you had bookshelves
your AVR settings will be vastly different than required for the towers. Before getting port plugs play around with settings. Maybe put a sock or similar in the ports to see the change. Position can be huge. Half the fun with new speakers is experimenting until you get things just the way YOU like them.

I find the same problem depending on the source. I can put on one Blu ray and the sound is punchy loud at -25db and I would turn it down to -30db to watch without disturbing the rest of the family.
Then you can put on another Blu ray and it sounds lacking in sound even at -15db that i have set as my forced limit on the AVM60 pre-amp.

I was watching Netflix and didn't have anything better to watch so I put on the xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (a mind numb bad movie) and the sound mixing for this was so far off that I watched the whole thing at -15db and felt that it wasn't loud at all. Put on another episode of Sense8 and had to quickly turn the volume down to -32db as it sounded like an explosion.

What is even worse at those movies that can't make their mind up as to if they want to be ultra quiet or ultra loud and you have to spend the whole movie with the volume control in hand because it's up and down every minute with dialog set to low and irrelevant surround music set to blast your ear drums out to the point of bleeding.

My experience exactly as well. The mix is paramount in how the CD, DVD/Blu Ray will sound. There are a lot of poor mixes & inconsistencies out there that sometimes make listening a less than satisfying experience.

I find that SACDs are generally a cut above the rest in consistency perhaps because more care is taken in the mixing process because they are supposedly an 'audiophile' format.

Clapton's products over the past 15 years or so are generally really well recorded & properly mixed - full & articulate. They put many others to shame. There is no reason that the industry can't match this quality...

TAM

Socketman,
Yamaha Advantage RXA850 I was using small satellite speakers before. Matt we have talked in the past I'm in Mississauga If you ever have a moment I would you to look at my set up
Bob M.

Sure I can. PM me your phone number and i will set up a time that is good. Will bring some audio and video that I know work well and see if we can get your system tuned in to what you'd like.