Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: More on my AR-11 statement. Message-ID: <2296@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 13:36:02 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.2296 Posted: Thu Mar 22 13:36:02 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 08:14:27 EST References: <1840@tektronix.UUCP> <352@dual.UUCP> <240@opus.UUCP>, <364@dual.UUCP>, <186@cubsvax.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 14 To put this another way, if you feed MUSIC to a high-power amplifier, then it will either drive the speakers cleanly or, if the signal level gets too high, blow the speaker fuse. It won't fry the tweeter unless there is a very high level of high-frequency energy in the music, which there almost never is. The argument about using a lower-powered amplifier to protect your tweeter applies only if you have a separate amplifier for the tweeter which is fed only high-frequency signals. There, there is no danger of clipping of high-amplitude low-frequency signals (which aren't supposed to be reaching the tweeter at all) generating harmonics. Note that tweeters are likely to be rated for 5 or 10 watts power input, so protecting them by using a power amplifier which is completely incapable of damaging them means having an amplifier which can't reasonably drive the woofer at all.