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From: mikey@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Re: Speaker fusing (particularly wit
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 14:48:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 14:48:00 1985
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I think fuses are worthless.  First off, how many people blow their woofers
because of DC offset?  Most amps capable of blowing the speakers have
DC sensors that will pull the speaker relay off.  You're not going
to protect the midrange and tweeters with a single fuse, you'd have to
put individual fuses at each element, and I doubt that you could get a
fuse that would act fast enough on transients (there won't be a DC
offset here, unless you bi-amp or tri-amp) and not blow on loud music.

The only purpose I can justify for a fuse is to prevent the output
stage from doing a melt-down, not to protect the speakers.

mikey at trsvax