Speakers don't have watts.
You could hook 'em up to a couple kilowatt monoblocks and have no problems. Just don't crank it to the clipping / distortion level.
I also have no idea where the manufacturers get the rating attached to a speaker. Sine wave RMS? Some kind of averaging music power?
I'm sure you could feed 'em way more power than 150 each as peaks while the continuous never got above say ...... 20% of max.
Long term listening at hi levels will heat up the drivers from resistive heating. Than they will begin sounding different and may even fail. My understanding is that Pro gear is designed with this continuous beating in mind.
One other parameter besides power handling is sensitivity. I'd expect a 100db sensitive speaker which could handle 100 watts to play more loudly than a 90db speaker which could handle the same 100 watts.
You could hook 'em up to a couple kilowatt monoblocks and have no problems. Just don't crank it to the clipping / distortion level.
I also have no idea where the manufacturers get the rating attached to a speaker. Sine wave RMS? Some kind of averaging music power?
I'm sure you could feed 'em way more power than 150 each as peaks while the continuous never got above say ...... 20% of max.
Long term listening at hi levels will heat up the drivers from resistive heating. Than they will begin sounding different and may even fail. My understanding is that Pro gear is designed with this continuous beating in mind.
One other parameter besides power handling is sensitivity. I'd expect a 100db sensitive speaker which could handle 100 watts to play more loudly than a 90db speaker which could handle the same 100 watts.