How much power have you got under the hood?


Hello my fellow audio lovers, I am buying a new amplifier and its down to the NAD C-370 (120 wpc) or the NAD C-350 (60 wpc). I have dual 10" 3 way JBL speakers (ND-310). they can handle 250 wpc and are 91 db@1 watt 1 meter 8 ohms. I like to listen loud but i am not sure if 60 wpc is enough for me or do i need to save up a few more hundred and get the 120 wpc... How much power do you have? How much power do you think i need? I dont want to have to make the amp work real hard to give me the power i need, and i cant audition these amps in my home. So as you can see its not an easy choice. I have a reciever with 130 wpc..or so it says. and its enough power just not very clean and the amp pretty much sucks. So im upgrading. Thank you for looking.
haoleb
Yesterday i was just browsing the Demo items at Audio Advisor and a certain amp caught my eye, its a Musical Fidelity X-A1 50 wpc 8 ohm,100 wpc 4 ohm. integrated amp with outboard power suppy. I am tempted to buy it for the $450.00 price tag. But i dunno, I know the nads more powerfull amp would be nice, but what do you think of this?. If nobody really thinks thats a good amp then i guess i will have to go with the NAD C-370....
The MF had a warm sound akin to traditional (i.e. old) tubes, with some off the roll-off of those tubes. Note: with SPENDOR speakers (that's all I remember). Also, I don't remember the MF being fast... I do NOT remember MF having similar sound to Nads -- hopefully others can enlighten on this?

Now, I know this is not helping a bunch, but $450 isn't frightfully expensive either (in this sport, that is).

Good luck!
Well everyone, good news i just ordered my new amp, I decided on the NAD C-370, its going to be great i cant wait to hook it up, Thanks for all the help