question about wattage

Should be fine.

Most receivers (even entry level ones) are fine with speakers rated 6-16ohm. You will be fine. Check the owner's manual of your receiver, whether it recommends 6ohm setting or suggests use of the default setting.

That is correct, however the receiver is only putting that many watts into the speakers if you have the volume knob turned way, way up. If you're only listening to them at normal volumes you won't have any problems whatsoever.

Having too many watts is good, this means your speakers will start to audibly distort before they are sent harmful square waves from amplifier clipping. IOW, when your speakers start to distort, just turn the volume back a bit and be thankful that your amp didn't distort.

Not exactly. THis discussion was brought up in another thread, and the conclusion was that too much power from the amp is what causes speaker damage, not clipping. When you start hearing audible distortion from just your speakers alone, watch out!!!

Here is one of my posts on clipping: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...&&#post9520704
The basic idea behind this (if you don't wan't to read the whole thing) is that the power getting to the speakers is reduced by clipping, not increased. Clipped waves are no more damaging than sine waves to speakers. The only reason they are normally associated with speaker damage is that amps that are turned up too loud clip. The amp being turned up too loud is what causes the damage, not the clipping. The clipping is just a clue that the volume is too loud.

The best way to aviod speaker damage with an overpowered amp is to never turn the volume up past a certain point. With an underpowered amp, you will get audible clues that your volume is too loud (such as clipping), but with an overpowered amp, you will have almost no audible clues.

Uh, yeah, be sure to read the whole thread, everyone, and then you'll know for sure that this guy is the authority on this matter. Right.

Let's try to NOT have this thread turn into whatever it was that the one referenced became.

Bottom line is this -- don't crank up your speakers till they bleed, and dont' worry about a 110 W receiver pushing 100 W speakers.

Also don't worry about a 90 watt amp pushing 100 watt speakers.

I wouldn't worry about that either. If a user is playing it so loud that they're unsure if it's a problem or not, then they should turn it down.

Finally, we're on the same page!

That doesn't mean we agree with you about why!