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In Reply to: Guys guys guys posted by mikebake on August 25, 2003 at 16:27:06:
Speakers consist of one or more drivers.
The term "speaker" communicates better than the
term "driver" to most people.My link provides data, rather than speculation.
I know you're thinking: "YOU know more than JBL?"
Well folks, the "Don't use an underpowered amplifier"
warning has been used for many decades to help sell expensive
powerful amplifiers! And it works too!When that article was written a long time ago when JBL did sell amplifiers (they may not anymore). Did you ever consider that back then JBL had a financial interest in selling more powerful pro amplifiers ... not to mention that pro usage is not comparable to home audio. Today, pro sound production companies can monitor speakers and amplifiers real time via computer links to built-in sensors in the equipment, not to mention using limiters that immediately cut power to prevent clipping. They take no chances.
Of course clipping distortion sounds bad, so who wants to listen to that?
And even a small amount of clipping harmonics reaching a tweeter can be bad news in very-high-SPL-close-to-the-edge pro situation where reliability is absolutely the top priority, not sound quality -- so why take even a little more risk? If the speakers break, the audience is liable to turn on the sound engineers and beat them up!
Even the Rane article in my link is slanted toward convincing readers to buy Rane Limiters (rather than providing the common sense advice "just turn down the volume", which I wish they would do more often in pro sound reinforcement) but at least there is useful data provided, while the ancient JBL article does not provide any data at all to support it's conclusions.
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Follow Ups
- That JBL Pro article is about 30 years old and misleading - Richard BassNut Greene 17:00:59 08/25/03 (4)
- Re: That JBL Pro article is about 30 years old and misleading - mikebake 17:25:23 08/25/03 (3)
- Had read that article years ago too! - Richard BassNut Greene 18:06:47 08/25/03 (2)
- Ha! - mikebake 18:16:05 08/25/03 (1)
- Then you're a smart guy - Richard BassNut Greene 18:42:46 08/25/03 (0)
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