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The Hawk is rated to take up to 120 watts. Your amp will likely do 130 into 6 ohms. Speaker manufacturers are always conservative with power ratings. I've easily put often twice the rated limit into speakers but with a solid state amp it must be all but distortion free. Being at both the amps max power as well as the speaker's rated max is a recipe for trouble. Especially with a small woofer and a speaker that's only 86dB efficient. If you froze the driver the voice coils are burnt. This most likely happened from overdriving the amp to distortion. Clipping a solid state amp basically puts DC on the voice coil and heats it up and poof. Bass heavy music with that small woofer is also tougher. We would put the NAD 200/ch amp on little PSB Alpha minis and Kirksaeter 60's with small woofers without a problem with non bass heavy music. We were putting at least 2X their rated power but it was clean power with no clipping.


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Edits: 01/19/17

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