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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 56820" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Mythbustingum no....&nbsp; The increase in average power from turning the amp up past clipping is far more significant, than the HF distortion products which will be a small fraction of that heat power increase. There are some secondary effects related to wide band clipping in combination with modest power tweeters. Huh? Woofers generally have far more power handling capability that tweeters. If the clipping related energy were steered to the tweeters, failure would be more likely, not less.&nbsp; Heat is heat and woofers can tolerate a lot more than tweeters. Note: If the woofer is inductive at the clip distortion energy frequencies, the current and associated heat impact will be even less.&nbsp; No, under powering a system DOES NOT lead to failures.&nbsp; Pushing levels TOO HIGH does. [edit] Note, pushing the level past clipping is arbitrary and incidental to the insult, it is pushing the average level higher that does the damage. Inexperienced system operators will sometimes turn underpowered systems up higher (average) than fully powered systems, that get louder on transient peaks.&nbsp; A larger amp turned up too loud will eat speakers too, but the operator is less inclined to turn it up that high when it plays louder transiently.&nbsp; Yes, this sounds a little paradoxical. [/edit] JRPS: Arghhhhhhhhh&nbsp; This topic (matching amps to speakers) is sufficiently complex to support old myths among those unfamiliar with the actual failure mechanisms.. Beware simple answers for complex questions (except for my simple answers) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 56820, member: 126"] Re: Mythbusting um no.... The increase in average power from turning the amp up past clipping is far more significant, than the HF distortion products which will be a small fraction of that heat power increase. There are some secondary effects related to wide band clipping in combination with modest power tweeters. Huh? Woofers generally have far more power handling capability that tweeters. If the clipping related energy were steered to the tweeters, failure would be more likely, not less. Heat is heat and woofers can tolerate a lot more than tweeters. Note: If the woofer is inductive at the clip distortion energy frequencies, the current and associated heat impact will be even less. No, under powering a system DOES NOT lead to failures. Pushing levels TOO HIGH does. [edit] Note, pushing the level past clipping is arbitrary and incidental to the insult, it is pushing the average level higher that does the damage. Inexperienced system operators will sometimes turn underpowered systems up higher (average) than fully powered systems, that get louder on transient peaks. A larger amp turned up too loud will eat speakers too, but the operator is less inclined to turn it up that high when it plays louder transiently. Yes, this sounds a little paradoxical. [/edit] JR PS: Arghhhhhhhhh This topic (matching amps to speakers) is sufficiently complex to support old myths among those unfamiliar with the actual failure mechanisms.. Beware simple answers for complex questions (except for my simple answers) :-). [/QUOTE]

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