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clipping damage

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In Reply to: RE: Dynaudio's "blown"? posted by Ron Oehlert on October 18, 2009 at 14:45:31

If the light goes on indicating that the signal is "clipping," I can see where damage can occur to your speakers, even if it's a brief moment. This damage may occur when the clipped source causes the speaker VC to "freeze" for a moment (where the peaks of the sine wave is chopped off). This may cause mis-alignment or thermal damage to the VC (or both). Anyhow, seen this happen when ppl put hi-fi speakers into guitar amp cabinets. I think the tighter tolerances of hi-fi speakers makes them more succeptible to damage from clipping.

When I take a guitar-amp designed speaker apart, they tend to have bigger gaps between the VC and the permanent magnet. I think this makes the speaker able to work even after heavy abuse from a clipping amp. Just a WAG...

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