How many watts are they?
Our favorite question. Watts are a measure of electrical current flowing in a wire. Speakers are passive, except for subwoofers which have their own built in amplifier. Speakers have no “watts.” Only something that plugs into an electrical outlet can have watts. So, your receiver has all the watts. Speakers get their cones pushed and pulled back and forth by those watts. The real question is how many watts can they handle without blowing up ? Orb speakers are compatible with most receivers rated up to 125 watts. They can also work with recievers of higher wattage as explained below. Watts are not the only enemy of speakers, though. Distortion is just as bad if not worse. You will be safe using almost any receiver or amplifier so long as you do not play loudly enough to hear constant distortion. Distorted sound due to extreme volume is caused by the amplifier (receiver) trying to push the speaker cone out farther than it is designed to travel, or from a distorted signal being sent from
