ZANE get your ass in here and set sh*t straight. I can see things from jlains point and everyone elses point of veiw. Technically an amp will put put out much more than its rated power when driven into clipping, when an amplifier is clipping it will start to put out DC voltage as well as AC voltage, DC voltage is translated direcly into heat when run though the voice coil of a speaker due to the fact that a speaker cannot reproduce a square waveform--Hence, burnt coils and blown speakers, but......
If you were to take a JLW7(for example) and run a channel from your cd player into it(18watts rms) and crank your head unit for all its worth untill the signal clips all to hell and starts putting out craploads of dc voltage the JLW7 will remain unharmed, WHY- because the voice coils thermal handling capalbilities have not been execceded, so tecnically everybodys right....... Come on, you all can see what Im talking about here right? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
If you were to take a JLW7(for example) and run a channel from your cd player into it(18watts rms) and crank your head unit for all its worth untill the signal clips all to hell and starts putting out craploads of dc voltage the JLW7 will remain unharmed, WHY- because the voice coils thermal handling capalbilities have not been execceded, so tecnically everybodys right....... Come on, you all can see what Im talking about here right? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif