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<blockquote data-quote="Why So Cereal?" data-source="post: 7576590" data-attributes="member: 626047">Contradiction, or maybe your wording just *****. Either way, by definition, distortion refers to errors in the exact reproduction of the input signal. Just like you stated, distortion can happen without clipping which is the point I was making from the start. You said they were one in the same, and then said they are not.Your initial statement was that &quot;when you amplify a sound that isnt there thats how you get distortion and distortion is what blows coils&quot;. This is still untrue. As stated distortion is any error in the exact reproduction. If distortion is what kills speakers then how do any of us still have speakers today? Some form of distortion will always be there, some forms are simply not audible to the human ear; but, they are still present. So, see, distortion does not blow speakers.Clipping is, what some may call, an extreme form of distortion where, as stated the ends of the sine wave are &quot;clipped off&quot;. That square wave has more area under it than the maximum unclipped sine wave does and thus the amplifier outputs more power that ultimately kills the driver. How? OVERHEATING!Therefore, my initial comment still stands, neither distortion nor clipping directly kill a sub. The effects of clipping, i.e HEAT, are what cause a driver to fail.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Why So Cereal?, post: 7576590, member: 626047"] Contradiction, or maybe your wording just *****. Either way, by definition, distortion refers to errors in the exact reproduction of the input signal. Just like you stated, distortion can happen without clipping which is the point I was making from the start. You said they were one in the same, and then said they are not. Your initial statement was that "when you amplify a sound that isnt there thats how you get distortion and distortion is what blows coils". This is still untrue. As stated distortion is any error in the exact reproduction. If distortion is what kills speakers then how do any of us still have speakers today? Some form of distortion will always be there, some forms are simply not audible to the human ear; but, they are still present. So, see, distortion does not blow speakers. Clipping is, what some may call, an extreme form of distortion where, as stated the ends of the sine wave are "clipped off". That square wave has more area under it than the maximum unclipped sine wave does and thus the amplifier outputs more power that ultimately kills the driver. How? OVERHEATING! Therefore, my initial comment still stands, neither distortion nor clipping directly kill a sub. The effects of clipping, i.e HEAT, are what cause a driver to fail. [/QUOTE]

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