One of my pet peeves is when, thanks to one of the OTHER audiophile forums on the 'net, the fans of some particular speaker will create a meme to the effect that the particular speaker that they very much like needs an extra helping of amplifier power in order that the speaker will "open up", or some such thing. No mention of any issue with the amp clipping or the amp getting hot or the sound not being loud enough with the volume control all the way up. None of that. Then you try to point out that unless the speaker is actually using the additional watts, the watts it is using are the same as the watts with a lesser amp. Then they start bringing up the "dynamics" and the dynamic range etc. Then you point out that they hadn't mentioned these things at the beginning, only the need for the speaker to "open up", and that if the reason is because of clipping distortion that is expected to occur with a weaker amp, why didn't they say this in the first place? And why wouldn't it depend on how loud the owner wanted to play it, and on what kind of music they listen to, etc? You point out that if that weaker amp was in fact clipping, it would also clip with any other speaker that has roughly the same sensitivity, playing the same stuff at the same volume level, and that as such it would be mainly an amplifier issue and not a speaker-specific issue and that this isn't what they were talking about because they weren't talking about the output voltage capability of the amplifier but were talking about how that one speaker with mystical properties needs an amplifier with a beefier transformer and bigger electrocaps because this is needed in order for that mystical speaker to "open up". The honest truth is that very many audio people really do believe that irrespective of the question of whether the output voltage is banging against the rails, the sound quality of a speaker, particularly its ability to produce bass with "punch", "slam" and "roundhouse kick", will generally not measure up to its true potential unless driven by the one particular amplifier that has been deemed, by the collective mind of those in the knose, to be the perfect, ideal amplifier for that particular speaker, such that if you attempt to drive the speaker with some other amplifier, even one with greater output voltage capability and greater current tolerating capability and lower distortion and noise than the approved amp, the speaker will not measure up to its true potential. If you want that speaker to open up and sound the way it's supposed to, you absolutely have to buy the amp approved for use with that speaker, otherwise you wasted your money on the speaker because there's no way for the speaker to open up with the amp you've been using with it. And if you knew anything about audio, you should already know this, because everyone else who bought that speaker knows it, except for you, 'cause you're a dummy and you can't hear anything anyway because your eardrums are almost certainly covered over with decades of accumulated ear wax.