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In Reply to: Watts, Speaker & Amps. posted by davesear on August 25, 2003 at 12:10:46:
Way more speakers get damaged by underpowered amps than with amps capable of prodigious power. All within reason, of course. If an amp is forced into hard clipping all manner of nasty things occur (way more distortion) and it is those nasty things that kill the drivers or x-over components. The difference between 50 and 70 watts is not that great so you should not experience any problems if you don't force your amp into clipping. You should know that it is clipping by the audible levels of distortion and stress heard. Unfortunately, sometimes it is too late for the speaker components and something will have died in the process (usually the tweeter, but not always). What is more important is the efficiency of the speaker and the load it presents to the power amp. The amp and speakers should always be thought of as one system.
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- Re: Watts, Speaker & Amps. - middleground 12:23:49 08/25/03 (19)
- Re: Watts, Speaker & Amps. - middleground 19:39:37 08/25/03 (0)
- Clipping is not a dreaded speaker killer -- rms power is 90-95% to blame - Richard BassNut Greene 13:32:09 08/25/03 (17)
- I guess that shows the different listeners get to the same problems - bwkendall 13:39:43 08/25/03 (16)
- 70 wpc into 50 wpc rating.... - MarkgM 00:47:40 08/26/03 (0)
- My point and I do have one is virtually ANY amplifier can damage speakers - Richard BassNut Greene 14:07:16 08/25/03 (14)
- I'm not buying your hypothesis - plantsman 14:59:50 08/25/03 (11)
- Well I'm not buying yours either - Richard BassNut Greene 16:05:53 08/25/03 (10)
- Re: woofers/tweeters - MarkgM 00:30:09 08/26/03 (9)
- blowing woofers versus tweeters - Richard BassNut Greene 08:15:34 08/26/03 (8)
- Re: blowing woofers versus tweeters - MarkgM 11:02:28 08/26/03 (7)
- Re: blowing woofers versus tweeters - Richard BassNut Greene 11:50:51 08/26/03 (6)
- Re: blowing woofers mechanically - MarkgM 19:02:41 08/26/03 (1)
- Woofer overexcursion damage is rare -- besides the subject was tweeter damage - Richard BassNut Greene 08:33:43 08/27/03 (0)
- Re: blowing woofers versus tweeters - MarkgM 14:57:23 08/26/03 (3)
- I have to get the last word in of course - Richard BassNut Greene 15:12:06 08/27/03 (2)
- Re: I have to get the last word in of course - MarkgM 11:28:19 08/28/03 (1)
- The last ... last word - Richard BassNut Greene 13:41:54 08/28/03 (0)
- From your example, I would think differently. - bwkendall 14:33:29 08/25/03 (1)
- Its all electricity to the voice coil wires whether clean or distorted - Richard BassNut Greene 16:30:11 08/25/03 (0)
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