Nothing stupid about it. It is fun to watch those needles move. I have an old Carver m400 cube amp that has LED lights for left and right channels and I used to love to watch them bounce up and down. I have thought many times of getting some M80's to hook up to it just for the view and of course the sound. It is actually stable to 2 ohms according to the manual. 250 watt per channel into 4 ohms. Although it is from 1983, it still works like the day I got it. Perhaps M80's are in my near future.

M80's(2), VP150, QS8's(2), M3's(4)