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Hi chaotic,

At 4,250 cu. ft, your room is quite large and you'd be better off with the M80 towers than the M22s. The M22s will play remarkably loud and cleanly in rooms up to about 2,500 or 3,000 cu. ft, but they shouldn't be expected to fill a room the size of yours at high dB levels. After all, they are still a smallish bookshelf speaker.

The M80s are more refined through the midrange than the M60s, especially on male and female vocals, and are really intended for very high playback levels in bigger rooms. Your Denon will power them with no problems, but understand that all AV receivers have output limits and can be driven into distortion or clipping if run past its limits.

The M80s will cleanly handle peak levels of 700 watts per channel from separate power amplifiers.

Regards,
Alan