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Pyle 15's
Originally Posted by
audioholic 
Saying "clipping doesn't kill speakers" is a half-truth at best. Technically no, clipping itself does not hurt the speaker. But in clipping your amp, you can easily create a situation that WILL kill the speaker. Was the squared waveform the DIRECT cause of the failure? No. In the end, the answer is, always has been, and can only be... heat kills speakers. BUT, clipping increases heat generation, sometimes by a drastic amount. So to start a thread simply to state that clipping does not hurt speakers is, again, a half-truth at best.
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Re: Pyle 15's
They're 12's.
I gotta start sleeping more than three hours a night.
Originally Posted by
audioholic Saying "clipping doesn't kill speakers" is a half-truth at best. Technically no, clipping itself does not hurt the speaker. But in clipping your amp, you can easily create a situation that WILL kill the speaker. Was the squared waveform the DIRECT cause of the failure? No. In the end, the answer is, always has been, and can only be... heat kills speakers. BUT, clipping increases heat generation, sometimes by a drastic amount. So to start a thread simply to state that clipping does not hurt speakers is, again, a half-truth at best.
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Re: Pyle 15's
It must be the green surrounds.
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Re: Pyle 15's
Originally Posted by
ciaonzo I had an old school pair of these actually took the power quite well but sounded like dog sh1t
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Re: Pyle 15's
I'm likin' that silver logo, too. I don't think I've seen those since I was in high school.
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Originally Posted by
Bigmann6374 I had an old school pair of these actually took the power quite well but sounded like dog sh1t
Big box, little box?
Originally Posted by
audioholic Saying "clipping doesn't kill speakers" is a half-truth at best. Technically no, clipping itself does not hurt the speaker. But in clipping your amp, you can easily create a situation that WILL kill the speaker. Was the squared waveform the DIRECT cause of the failure? No. In the end, the answer is, always has been, and can only be... heat kills speakers. BUT, clipping increases heat generation, sometimes by a drastic amount. So to start a thread simply to state that clipping does not hurt speakers is, again, a half-truth at best.
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Re: Pyle 15's
[QUOTE=ciaonzo;8323732]I'm likin' that silver logo, too. I don't think I've seen those since I was in high school.
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Big box, little box?[/QUOTE
It was a bigger box around 3 cubes they were bass cabs I built for a home theater setting they moved real nice and gave real deep bass but obviously output was limited.
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Re: Pyle 15's
Old school car audio gear for home theater, lol.
I've done it, too.
Originally Posted by
audioholic Saying "clipping doesn't kill speakers" is a half-truth at best. Technically no, clipping itself does not hurt the speaker. But in clipping your amp, you can easily create a situation that WILL kill the speaker. Was the squared waveform the DIRECT cause of the failure? No. In the end, the answer is, always has been, and can only be... heat kills speakers. BUT, clipping increases heat generation, sometimes by a drastic amount. So to start a thread simply to state that clipping does not hurt speakers is, again, a half-truth at best.
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Re: Pyle 15's
Originally Posted by
ciaonzo Old school car audio gear for home theater, lol.
I've done it, too.
Hey it works! lol
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Re: Pyle 15's
Originally Posted by
ciaonzo Old school car audio gear for home theater, lol.
I've done it, too.
Hey it works! lol
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