Bottom line about volume... You STOP turning it up the minute you hear ANY distortion. So, marketing mumbo jumbo aside, if you have to push the Roland's into clipping to get the same volume as a Mackie gets while still clean, that means that the Mackie is FAR more powerful (as 150 watts versus 30 make obvious).

The fact that anyone is even able to listen to a system with distortion is scary! This is the main thing that works against the Roland's, IMO. It may very well sound good, but only up to a certain point, and truth be told, if you use these as a main PA, you will have a VERY limited volume ceiling if you have no sub. Sure, they CAN go loud, but I guarantee you are introducing quite some distortion by the time they are dance-floor loud...

Me, I like clean. At ALL volumes...