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In Reply to: Re: Watts, Speaker & Amps. posted by middleground on August 25, 2003 at 12:23:49:
My "all within reason" in my initial reply to me meant that you can kill any part of a speaker if you overdrive it and, obviously, a powerful amp can overdrive a speaker with clean power. In fact, I guess I was merely repeating what is so often said about clipping. My only experience has been with quite powerful amps: Mitsubishi D-15 or whatever it was at 150 wpc, VSP Gold Edition at 180 wpc, Adcom 565 at 300 wpc and Bryston 7B-STs at 500 watts per channel (will the next one be a kilo? I don't think so). Failures have been two blown tweeters in two different speaker models; at different times, many blown midranges, a blown tweeter and blown x-over components (the smoke in the room was thick and acrid) with a pair of well-respected speakers (in this case all repaired by the manufacturer even after many years of service); and a blown midrange in my most recent speakers. So, all in all, yes, indeed, big power can be quite deadly. I am now listening at saner levels. To get back to the original question: no, you should not have any problems if you don't overcook things.
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