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In Reply to: That would make you wrong too posted by Richard BassNut Greene on August 25, 2003 at 14:20:55:
According to the Rane article, under powered amps are more likely to blow tweeters. The answer is not because of clipping, it's due to compression according to their research. Because the amp compresses the low end signal, the user doesn't notice the volume increase as much, but rather should notice an increasing brightness. In any case, the volume can be continued to be applied until the amp clips at 100 watts on the high end easily over powering and burning out the tweeter."If you overdrive the amplifier by 10 dB, the high frequency
amplitude goes up by 10 dB. This goes on dB for dB
as you turn up the volume, until the high frequency reaches
the 100 watt level. Meanwhile the peak level of the low
frequency portion can not increase above 100 watts (See
Figure 4). This now represents nearly 100% compression (no
difference between HF amplitude and LF amplitude).
vol. 38, pp.34-39 (Jan-Feb, 1990)"Their solution was to build in limiting. So, volume is the culprit, but using an under powered amp would be more likely to encourage the listener to abuse the speaker because of compression. This of course excludes people like my brother that blow tweeters because they just want to see how loud it will go before it breaks.
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