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In Reply to: Re: what rules are you talking about? posted by T&T on November 19, 2005 at 18:36:43:
The underpowering of a speaker part is true, but primarily applies to transistor amps. With a tube amp you REALLY have to work at it to blow any well made speaker. What will damage a speaker is hard clipping, sub and supersonic spikes produced when an amp is "reovering" from overload, and huge amounts of 3rd and 5th order harmonic distortion. These are mainly qualties of overloaded SS gear (this is a generalization and oversimpification to keep this post under 10,000 words!)Some SS gear has even been known to pass small amounts of pure DC along with the AC music signal, impossible with a tube amp as transformers will not pass DC. Essentially, by the time a tube amp gets to the oint where it will smoke a tweeter, it is no longer making music but noise. Everything will be fuzzed out and unrecognizable as music. There are SOME (very few) speakers like Altec horns and the original Quad 57s that are relatively easy to blow, but accidentally blowing a tweeter just by cranking up the music is very rare. Never happened to me, and I throw caution to the wind.
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- Re: what rules are you talking about? - tubecrazy 18:59:35 11/19/05 (1)
- Exactly what I hoped to hear ! - T&T 22:35:28 11/19/05 (0)
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