Alan, do you have any SPL measurements of the M80's when your testing them at these levels? how loud do these things actually go before they are fried? id think when you get to that high of wattage the small speaker wire in the cabinets and on the xover would get quite hot. not as much the wire coming from the xover to the drivers, but the two small ones that connect the upper and lower boards.

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