I've decided to buy M60's now rather than buy cheaper speakers and trade up later, but it's waaay more than I expected to spend on speakers (part of that money was originally going to buy a new receiver). If I buy M60's, I'll be stuck with my old receiver for several months - it's an old JVC RX-205 from the early 90's.
Right now I have no sub, no home theatre - I just want to listen to stereo music at a reasonable volume. Can my receiver drive the M60's, provided I don't crank the volume? I don't care about the receiver, I'm just afraid of damaging the speakers if the receiver amp clips.
The JVC RX-205 manual gives the following specs:
- 40W per channel, min., RMS, both channels driven to 8 ohms, from 20Hz to 20kHz, with no more than 0.3% harmonic distortion
- 40W per channel, min., RMS, both channels driven into 8 ohms at 1kHz (DIN).
Any help would be appreciated. I'm obviously a neophyte when it comes to audio components. Hopefully I'll be selling my JVC in a garage sale this summer and trading up to something worthy of the speakers...
