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The quickest way to kill speakers is square waves. Ask any subwoofer enthusiast. Clipping kills speakers.
by brokenmachine 4y ago
The quickest way to kill speakers is square waves. Ask any subwoofer enthusiast. Clipping kills speakers.
- simonblack 4y agoSquare waves contain even more power than sine waves. All those lovely odd harmonics that ensure constant full peak-to-peak power that will cook voice-coils almost instantly. Not so much the clipping but the overloading of the voice-coils. But then again, when some cones were made of solid polystyrene foam, the very rapid full-travel back and forth caused the voice-coil area of the foam cone to break and separate completely away from the rest of the foam cone. Had to have my B139 woofers from my KEF Concertos re-coned quite a few times back in the day.