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He was basically correct. Your receiver is rated @ 120 watts x 2. Will they make sound, yes. You will never get them to their full potential, also more easily blow tweeters or drivers due to clipping. The good news is that the receiver does have pre outs to add a dedicated 2 channel or multi-channel amp. It's not all about watts you also need good current (high-current) as well. If you end up shopping for an amp look for one that will basically double down. By that I mean if it is 200 watts per channel at 8 ohms then it should double to 400 watts at 4 ohms or very close to it. That's indicative of a good power supply. One of the things that receivers do is they cheap out on the power supply because that is actually the most expensive part copper and power, banks of large capacitors to store power for demanding passages of music or movie explosions etc.