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Originally Posted by BigNate
The bolded statement is incorrect. The are two things that can damage a speaker, pushing it beyond its mechanical limits or pushing it beyond its thermal limits.
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If you keep reading past the semi-colon you will see that I stated as much.
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Originally Posted by vjarnot
driving a speaker to volume levels which require a level of wattage greater than the amplifier can provide will produce 'clipping', which can easily damage a loudspeaker.
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Originally Posted by vjarnot
The way to damage a speaker which is driven by an adequately powered amplifier is too go berserk with the volume - causing the loudspeaker to draw more and more power, play louder and louder until it physically fails.
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Originally Posted by BigNate
While yes clipping is often caused by someone with too little power setting their gains incorrectly, too little power in and of itself can not damage a speaker.
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Now that is just pedantry. Too little power
for the selected level is exactly what causes an amplifier to clip, which blows speakers.
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Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat
I will agree that it did blow however there was no clipping of the signal after tuning, they just were overpowered because I wired them at 1 ohm instead of 4 ohms like I had thought I wired it. Installer error  |
To say that a speaker was overpowered by an amplifier implies that amplifiers "push" power to speakers... which they don't: speakers
draw power from amplifiers. How much they draw is determined by the level selected and the speaker's impedance and efficiency. Again, (and strangely enough, BigNate and I seem to agree on this) the only way to blow a speaker with too much power is to play it at levels which exceed its physical or thermal limits... which doesn't seem to be the case here. It's simple: speakers don't draw any more power than they need to play at the level you've selected.