In the "everything I know is wrong" category, I'm pleasantly surprised at how well my alleged 91db speakers work with my HO (12 watts or maybe 17 watts…jury is out on output)…I listen to a wide range of music including modern jazz, orchestral stuff, things that rock, etc., and my listening space is around 18 by 20 with the ceiling going from maybe 8 to 20 feet sloping up from the gear heap. My main speakers are maybe 8 feet or so from my earballs and can be enjoyed to seriously loud levels with no apparent distortion…easy to see where that distortion shows up by simply turning it up until it goes into overload, but it's loud enough to not have to go near that area. 2 subs reinforce things, but dynamic classical and everything else doesn't seem challenged at all…I might be lucky.
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