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In Reply to: You are taking this to extremes. Can we stick to the poster's question? posted by bwkendall on August 25, 2003 at 14:26:09:
I owned ADS 410 speakers for about six months in the early 1980's.
Gave them as a gift to my sister-in-law. One time a few years later during a party she cranked up those little speakers very loud for a party in their large house which eventually blew both tweeters.
The Sony integrated amplifier I had also given her was either 40
or 50 or 60wpc -- I can't remember over 20 years later.Well since I'm such as nice guy, I bought two exact replacement
Audax dome tweeters for something like $30 each as a gift and installed them with the warning:
"Too LOUD for too long = goodbye tweeters ...
and I'm not paying for the next pair".Well the sister-in-law was a lot more careful after that incident and the ADS 410's were never damaged again and are still in use today.
And still sound pretty good too.Now the ADS 420's may be completely different than those ADS 410's which used a 7.5" Audax woofer and 1" dome Audax tweeter ... but the lesson is still the same -- almost any receiver can take out a tweeter if the volume control is turned too far clockwise.
To say there is absolutely no danger at all is not true.
If the receiver was only 3wpc there would probably be no danger.
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Follow Ups
- I did. And by the way your answer is wrong. - Richard BassNut Greene 15:48:38 08/25/03 (1)
- $30 each for Audax tweeters? Yikes! -t - bwkendall 15:54:19 08/25/03 (0)
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