Cork, there's no "specs aside" which reasonably come into this scenario. Specs for speaker sensitivity, amplifier max power and listening distance answer the question.

Using the 88dB for 1 watt at 1 meter M3 sensitivity and using the typical in-room loss of 3dB per doubling of distance, the numbers at a reasonable distance of 2 meters in a dorm room come up as 85dB for 1 watt, 95dB for 10 watts and just over 98dB for 22 watts. This should be entirely sufficient for dorm room listening.

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