nope, but its good to know the speaker can handle those peaks if you move to a larger room.
Okay, since my succinct comment backfired, i'll elaborate:
Our top priorities with movies are dialogue intelligibility, decent tonal accuracy, and ability to handle dynamic range, with a clearly defined peak SPL of 105db @ listening positiing. Being able to justice to a good soundtrack is another, but third. Then you can add surround effects like crickets chirping and LFE effects like helecoptor blades.
Most of our top priorities with Music are things like stereo imaging, absolute tonal accuracy to a variety of instruments, top class resolution of a multitude of simultaneous aural "events", bass definition, soundstage depth.
I would not call the above goals one-and-the-same, though of course speakers exist that can do all of the above pretty well. It'd be great for a pair of speakers to do "everything". But if they can't, then of course it makes sense to guide people towards the tradeoffs that fit a person's requirements.
Just like I wouldn't recommend a pair of 85db sensitive speakers for someone's large, dedicated HT for movies, I would not recommend a pair of JTRs for someone's living room where they sit 8 feet away. Not because of how the JTRs sound, but simply because JTR provides no relevant data for why I SHOULD recommend them for that purpose. They certainly provide relevant data for why I would want them in a large dedicated HT - they can go really, really loud.
That doesn't mean you can't watch movies with 85db sensitive speakers, or you can't listen to music really loud with 95db sensitive speakers. All it means is to figure out where your priorities are at. A movie is actually likely to clip the amp or overload the voice coils of that 85db speaker. That's because if you set the average listening level to around 75db, you need peaks of 95db. Yes music can have dynamic range, and yes preservation of such a thing is important. rmk has shown that he swapped out his Revel Studios for JTRs, for his own purposes.
The objective difference is, we have hard facts about those Revel Studios that translate decently to what a person should hear in an audition, and we have ...subjective opinions... about the JTRs, plus the fact that they can go loud.
That's not a knock on the JTR speakers, but it is sufficient justification for us not be recommending these speakers all the time.
For what it's worth I'm often recommending the JBL LSR 6332 speakers for some people's requirements. It's not because they're necessarily subjectively better sounding speakers than philharmonics at 70db or JTRs at 90db, but because those will handle dynamic range well, while fulfilling basic objective SQ requirements I set for a speaker.
Sometimes you have to look at the objective facts.
So what are you looking at???
Sorry to any JTR owners out there. This doesn't mean I don't value your subjective impressions. I'm just saying that there's positive subjective impressions about a lot of stuff out there. How does one narrow it down? That's why I have no qualms with suggesting JTR for movies or ADTG's kareoke, but it'd be a very ambitious statement to recommend them for music unheard and unmeasured.
Besides, lots of genre's of music are optimized for loud listening.
If you're talking about compressed music, then it's arguable that you don't need 105db peaks. Dynamic range is actually best reserved for quieter music, that can get loud instantly. If music is always loud, then we turn the volume down, not up, so it might hang around 80 to 90db but never higher or lower. A movie or classical performance might go anywhere from 55db to 100db at the blink of an eye.
