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The Marantz is just creatively playing with numbers to make something look better on paper.

If they would have written the more realistic 130 W (6 ohm 20Hz-20kHz with 0.15 % THD, then you would not be writing to us.

Just by dropping the impedance to 6 from 8, you will never realistically ever get an almost double up in wattage power. The part to look at is more the measured frequency band of just 1 kHz to see that wattage number is grossly exaggerated

Also I gather that your Marantz receiver is of the old style volume control that goes from Zero to Ten, rather than the newer style that goes from -80db to +10db, where you get lots very little sound increase then suddenly it starts to get load really fast.

I would say that the HP speakers will start to be noticable on your reciever around the 3-4 mark on your volume control. If you get up to the 6 then you will definitely hear the extra bass