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In Reply to: Re: blowing woofers versus tweeters posted by MarkgM on August 26, 2003 at 14:57:23:
... and annoy you some more!Most amps these days are 100 to 200 wpc.
If you had a 100wpc amp that clipped once in a while,
then a 200 wpc amp would probably clip once in a while too,
given the same input voltage.Lets start with a 100wpc amp with intermittent 9dB clipping,
-- using a 200wpc amp would only reduce clipping to 6db
-- using a 400 wpc amp would only reduce clipping to 3db
-- An 800wpc amp would be needed to entirely eliminate
9dB of clipping.The true comparison is between a typical 100wpc amp that someone owns, and perhaps a much more expensive 200wpc amp upgrade that some people may claim is "safer" for speakers.
But that "upgrade" would only reduce intermittent clipping by 3db, which probably would not even be audible.
When using a 200wpc amp, however, the probability of woofer overexcursion damage would increase compared with a 100wpc amp.
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