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<blockquote data-quote="Timo Ulkuniemi" data-source="post: 208157" data-attributes="member: 1978">HelloOne more explanation - as others already said in other words - when clipping, your signal gets much more harmonics - odd and even - or overtones - and the x-over in the cabinets puts them all into your tweeter - just the way it is designed to do. This will kill your tweeter. Because if we have a - for example - 100W passive two-way speaker - the high frequency driver NORMALLY handles about 10-20 Watts of full 100W input. So the driver is maybe capable of 10-30 Watts. When the amp gets overdriven, the high frequency part will be up to 50 watts and up - thus burning your tweeter. The woofer will probably be ok.The sound not !!!And while the amp is too small - it is likely, that it will be overdriven to reach desired SPL. Therefore amp can never be too big - unless operator is maniac and blasts full regardless what´s receiving the output ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Timo Ulkuniemi, post: 208157, member: 1978"] Hello One more explanation - as others already said in other words - when clipping, your signal gets much more harmonics - odd and even - or overtones - and the x-over in the cabinets puts them all into your tweeter - just the way it is designed to do. This will kill your tweeter. Because if we have a - for example - 100W passive two-way speaker - the high frequency driver NORMALLY handles about 10-20 Watts of full 100W input. So the driver is maybe capable of 10-30 Watts. When the amp gets overdriven, the high frequency part will be up to 50 watts and up - thus burning your tweeter. The woofer will probably be ok.The sound not !!! And while the amp is too small - it is likely, that it will be overdriven to reach desired SPL. Therefore amp can never be too big - unless operator is maniac and blasts full regardless what´s receiving the output ... [/QUOTE]

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