RE: [OT] Understanding speakers & watts.

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I had great success in my "in car audio" days using good quality
and
high(ish) powered amps on line fit speakers. I had used 4 x 40w Rockford
Fosgate amps on speakers which were supposedly rated at 8w and never
blew one of them - even though they were used quite hard. They were
filtered to restrict the lower end of the frequency range as too much
bottom end through them would kill them as it ripped apart the
suspensions but that was about it.

On the other hand I have seen loads of speakers destroyed by using cheap
and crappy amps which when driven into clipping simply spend most of
their life putting out almost square wave DC (clipped AC waveforms)
which - as Keith has said - destroys tweeters in seconds and mid bass /
subwoofers in hours!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 January 2002 14:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Understanding speakers & watts.
>
>
> If you turn it up way too high then you can damage the
> speakers, but an amp that is too small can damage the
> speakers because when an amp is overdriven the resultant
> clipping causes an excessive amount of high frequency energy
> that kills tweeters pretty damn quick.
>
> On overpowered amp driven sensibly is much less dangerous.
>
> Mordant Short normally have "Positec" protection which are
> self resetting fuses that cut out if they are overdriven. (My
> MS3.10's do anyway)
>
> HTH
>
> Keith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jcom10 [mailto:jcom10@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 January 2002 13:46
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Understanding speakers & watts.
>
>
> I have been looking for some new surround speakers, and
> recently saw a Mordaunt Short "Premier" package in Richer
> Sounds. SWMBO was with me and insists we get them because,
> they are unobtrusive and "they look nice"! I would have to
> agree, but I don't think they are man enough for the job.
>
> The speakers are rated at 50W but my AV amp is, IIRC, 80W.
> My assumption is that the speakers will be knackered if the
> volume is turned up too loud. Is that correct?
>
> They aren't on the MS site (strange) & I can find very little
> information about them on the web. Anyone have any experience
> of these?
>
> Any recommendations for other speakers? The keyword here is
> SMALL. I fancy the Bose Acoustimass ones but they are a bit pricey.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Justin.
>
> PS: Happy new year to everyone!
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