Hi,
I have owned my M80's now for about six months and still love them. The only thing I don't like about them is that they don't like playing low quality audio signals like some avi movies. Occasionally I can hear crackling from the speakers, which I assume is just an accurate reproduction of the low quality audio signal coming from the source. My friend has some lower quality speakers that sound much better without the crackling when I play the same low quality audio signal through. Does this sound typical?
My other question was in relation to the power handling capacity of the M80's. I have heard that the M80's can handle 700 watts RMS running continously. I find this hard to imagine as I can see significant speaker cone excursion while only running about 140 watts RMS through them. It looks like the speakers are running close to maximum capacity even at only 140 watts RMS. Has anyone ran their own tests on the M80's to see their true capabilities.
