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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 140421" data-attributes="member: 162"><p>Re: Under powering speakers</p><p></p><p></p><p>To do it well, destructive testing. Peak and RMS limiters are two tools in your toolbox. By setting both limiters very conservatively you can make it pretty much impossible to kill your speaker. You will sacrifice significant performance though. Finding the balance between performance and safety is complicated, and while you can make some guesses, manufacturers do it by smoking some stuff to find the limits. </p><p></p><p>For those of us who don't have a large reconing budget, you can start with the peak limiter set per the manufacturer's specs (may have to convert watts to volts), and for RMS, start at something like 25% of program power with a 2 second delay. From there, use your ears, eyes, and nose to determine how stressed the box is, and you can refine from there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 140421, member: 162"] Re: Under powering speakers To do it well, destructive testing. Peak and RMS limiters are two tools in your toolbox. By setting both limiters very conservatively you can make it pretty much impossible to kill your speaker. You will sacrifice significant performance though. Finding the balance between performance and safety is complicated, and while you can make some guesses, manufacturers do it by smoking some stuff to find the limits. For those of us who don't have a large reconing budget, you can start with the peak limiter set per the manufacturer's specs (may have to convert watts to volts), and for RMS, start at something like 25% of program power with a 2 second delay. From there, use your ears, eyes, and nose to determine how stressed the box is, and you can refine from there. [/QUOTE]
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