Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Which Power Source for M60ti? Newbie.

Resistance should be interesting.

The dual M5s, a load of 3 Ohms and slightly less, brought the 1500 to its knees but not before 112 dBC was measured 12 feet away. I can't tell you what that sounded like because I had muffs on but I know crossed to a sub at 80 Hz, I can take the M5s to 105 dBC before I detect squirreliness.

Clearly you need some audiophile earmuffs.

112db!! Awesome. I love that you all are into experimenting as trying things out. It’s great.

Well I switched the speakers around and still louder in the same spot / right side.

Next I’m going to switch the channels left for right and see if the problem travels. I’m thinking it might be my pot / attenuator. I was reading that the pot can be less accurate at low volumes. And I can attest to the fact that things do balance out and sound fantastic at medium to loud volumes.

Some deoxit in the pot should take care of it? Or do I need a new assembly and a technician todo this for me?

I guess I’ll just have to listen at high volumes ( as was cheekily suggested in another forum I read randomly. ).

And switching gears here a bit ( punny right) but does anybody have any recommendations or opinions on OUTBOARD DAC S? I had my heart set a Schiit Modi 3 ( as recommended by Darko, he seems level headed ...). But getting shipped to Canada is expensive. Anything else out there in the 1-200$ starter DAC range?

I guess this thread is way off topic but seems to be ok.

Thanks all.

Looking at shipping costs, I would be tempted to go for the Modi3 and ship it via uninsured USPS. Buying anything in that price range from outside Canada is always a bit painful because cost of insured priority shipping is is a fair chunk of the purchase price.

Going with the cheapest USPS seems to give you the best chance of having it show up in your mailbox without duties/customs charges as well.


4 pages on topic is unusual around here unless the topic is really generic.

Ok. Thanks bridgman. I’m gonna go for it. It’s the best value DAC with the best reviews and has all the inputs I want for various things / sources to plug in.

Ya this thread has sort of turned into my own personal setup journey and other musings. I guess I’ll just keep going with it for it now.

Kodiak, how exactly are you planning to use this Schiity thing in your system?

Mojo, gonna stream off my pc computer. I like Spotify. I am considering getting Tidal to add to streaming. I don’t have the $$$ right now to invest in dedicated DAC / streamer player.

Also gonna use the digital coax out of my older CD player. Just think an outboard dac will be better than whatever is in my CD player or whatever is in my laptop. Also I can use the optical / toslink connection to hook up my cable box to play all my streaming tv music movies and cable into my receiver. As well in Telus fibre I get all those music channels too. So I can get all those too into receiver. That’s my plan at least.

The main one is to get my Spotify streaming sounding cleaner off my pc. It’s a quite poor sounding. Muddy.

Right now the best quality I can achieve is playing all my cds straight off my CD player with its built in internal DAC.

From what I ve read it seems a jump in quality / clarity and detail can be accessed with an outboard DAC.

I think you just wanted to say SCHITTY. Ha.

I see. Thanks. I did want to say Schiity but I also wanted to learn what you're planning. Have you considered the Axiom Air Transformer?