Broadly speaking, it means that the M80s can play lower than the M50s. It is not (by any means) the only measurement of a speaker's abilities; it's a broad brush type of thing.

Other considerations are the sensitivity of the speaker (how loud they play at a given wattage--the M80s are more sensitive than the M50s), how much the off axis response varies, what the frequency range looks like.

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