I looked at some of your other threads. Is this question referring to the system in your smallish (10 X 10) room in the row house where you need to play the system at low volumes? If that is the case, I doubt you are overdriving the speakers. It may be more the case that your speakers do not sound their best at low volumes. Rock seems to be a difficult music genre for speakers to get right at low volumes. Jazz and acoustic music tend to sound good with good speakers.
I am a coop board president in an apartment house in NYC (Queens) and I try to set an example by keeping the volume low when I play my system. It took a lot of trial and error to find speakers that performed well at low volumes with the music genres I listen to (opera, 60's & 70's rock, folk, country). I ultimately settled on speakers from Ascend Acoustics and Opera (2 different systems) with tube amplification.
I would start with the speakers. Listen in person. Stay away from speakers that reviewers have said require volume to sound their best (B&W comes to mind).
Rich
I am a coop board president in an apartment house in NYC (Queens) and I try to set an example by keeping the volume low when I play my system. It took a lot of trial and error to find speakers that performed well at low volumes with the music genres I listen to (opera, 60's & 70's rock, folk, country). I ultimately settled on speakers from Ascend Acoustics and Opera (2 different systems) with tube amplification.
I would start with the speakers. Listen in person. Stay away from speakers that reviewers have said require volume to sound their best (B&W comes to mind).
Rich