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Hi-fi and monitor speakers almost always have a soft foam or thin rubber edge surround exactly for this reason, to make them as easy to drive at tiny amounts of input power as possible.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
While some speakers do like to be pushed hard - as ICBM says - thats more about how they start to compress and distort themselves, the FM issue is much more noticeable.
Probably not a popular opinion but a lot of people spend a fair bit of money on power attenuators which won't ever get their amp to sound like a fully cranked amp because the amount of air moved, the resonance between the guitar and amp at high volume and the actual speaker cone distorting all contribute massively to that sound.
You can get the power valves cooking and the output transformer saturating but that's not the same thing. Before the sanity of mic;ing up in the early nineties I did loads of gigs with a 100 watt Marshall cranked right up, it's a totally different experience to an amp cranked into an attenuator.