Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site teklabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!tekchips!teklabs!keithe From: keithe@teklabs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: blowing out tweeters Message-ID: <2766@teklabs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 12:44:24 EST Article-I.D.: teklabs.2766 Posted: Mon Mar 19 12:44:24 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 02:30:40 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 11 Marginally-rated high frequency drivers can sometimes be blown out by using an amplifier with too LOW of a power rating: If your kid (certainly YOU would never do this) cranks up the volume so loud that the amp is consistently/constantly driven into clipping, guess which little driver gets to try to reproduce all those nth-order distortion products. Right-o, bunky: the tweeter! So put that in your speaker system an' smoke it... keith ericson at teklabs (oom-pah-pah, oom-pah-pah)