“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.
