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“Again, no one could stand the din anyway so why cares. Really all it proves, if it’s indeed accurate, is that they handle prodigious amount of power for which the average individual sitting in their average living space (HT) will never require.
That's the point, most speaker watt ratings are meaningless for most people. Most listen at 1-2Watts nominal for loud music and peaks might get into 100W, which most people have in the amps anyway, problem is sooo many people get caught up in the Wattage ratings of speakers thinking this means they are powerful, when it has nothing to do with the power of the system at all.
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yep, they can handle gobs of power.
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Who was it that did a failure test With axiom's drivers? Audiholics? I just remember he was very impressed with the amount of abuse he could give them before they failed.
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I recall that also, can't remember...
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I tried but I couldn't do it 
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I see in this Axiom article that the M80's were tested at 700 watts continuous and not 700 Watts RMS. Is there a difference? On another note the SPL for these speakers in a room environment would be:
95 db/w/ 1m
98 db/2w/1m
101db/4w/1m
104db/8w/1m
107db/16w/1m
110db/32w/1m
113db/64w/1m
116db/128w/1m
119db/256w/1m
122db/512w/1m
125db/1024w/1m
So this means these speakers will put out a staggering 123-124 db running at 700 Watts RMS. Does this sound correct?
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Most likely, yes. They don't test them with anyone in the room...
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When I toured the factory last fall, Debbie and Tom showed me the "torture chambre" where they test-run the M80s for 24 hrs continuously, at I think they said 800 watts or north of. Keyword...continuously. Lol, there was a fire extinguisher nearby, just in case!
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122 - 125db sounds about right - rock concert levels.
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