One thing I don't understand though, Many times I've read on this forum that the M80s actually will play very loud using not too much power (from my understanding, 60W will get them to play very loud) and the the extra power is overhead. I don't think that I had them to extreme levels, so shouldn't my 105W/ch have enough overhead for me to play them loud without distortion?
A different scenario all together, I know. However, I'll add that with my Denon, a small room, and M60s, I don't have to go anywhere zero or sub zero to hear 105db peaks in some material. In louder material, I've experimented and roughly "maintained" 100db with much higher peaks at only about -7.
All scenarios differ but my point is that unless you have a db meter, you might not realize just how loud or, to be fair, not loud it really is.
