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<blockquote data-quote="hoss" data-source="post: 952433" data-attributes="member: 549860">im going to post my two cents here...clipped waves do not kill subs, clipped amps kills subs...&nbsp; a speaker is a simple device, you put alternating current through it, it moves back and forth.&nbsp; it doesent care what the shape of a wave is, it just does what it is told and nothing more.&nbsp; sure a square wave may go out, pause, go in, pause, go out, etc ,etc , etc...&nbsp; and during that pause it may allow the coil to heat slightly more than during a completely sinusoidal wave.&nbsp; however, consider this, the largest cooling factor for a voice coil comes from the back and forth motion of the coilitself.&nbsp; and a coilplaying a 60Hz wave moves back and forth 60 times a second no matter what the shape of the wave is.when most people chalk a fried coil up to clipped waves, it is more accuratly said that a clipped amp did the damage.&nbsp; when amps go into clipping they do some pretty insane things, like producing waaaay more power than they do under normal operating conditions.&nbsp; more power leads tomore heat, more heat leads to blown coils...in summation, waves do not killspeakers, heat does.&nbsp; and a square wave alone should not produce the extra heat neccesary to cause failure.&nbsp; but combine that with the extra power from a clipped amp...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hoss, post: 952433, member: 549860"] im going to post my two cents here... clipped waves do not kill subs, clipped amps kills subs... a speaker is a simple device, you put alternating current through it, it moves back and forth. it doesent care what the shape of a wave is, it just does what it is told and nothing more. sure a square wave may go out, pause, go in, pause, go out, etc ,etc , etc... and during that pause it [I]may[/I] allow the coil to heat slightly more than during a completely sinusoidal wave. however, consider this, the largest cooling factor for a voice coil comes from the back and forth motion of the coilitself. and a coilplaying a 60Hz wave moves back and forth 60 times a second no matter what the shape of the wave is. when most people chalk a fried coil up to clipped waves, it is more accuratly said that a clipped amp did the damage. when amps go into clipping they do some pretty insane things, like producing waaaay more power than they do under normal operating conditions. more power leads tomore heat, more heat leads to blown coils... in summation, waves do not killspeakers, heat does. and a square wave alone should not produce the extra heat neccesary to cause failure. but combine that with the extra power from a clipped amp... [/QUOTE]

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