I never realized just how compressed popular music was until I plugged in the M80s, that's a good suggestion to check out some classical music at least for reference (my wife loves the pop stuff, what can you do? Maybe the M80s will expand her range of musical taste
), although I suspect the few classical recordings I have will have to be upgraded to provide decent sound quality.
Jason/Myrison provided a link to one of those amp power calculators but I was a little fuzzy on how to perform the calculations, I'll have to go back to that link and dig into it.
I think what you say about misleading numbers is also an issue with the power amp calculator equations, since the numbers are somewhat biased it takes a bit of experience to know how the numbers are actually going to translate into a real world situation, especially with regard to ordering equipment over the internet. Thank God for Axiom!
