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Can subs get unlouder if u turn too high?
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<blockquote data-quote="jlaine" data-source="post: 20795" data-attributes="member: 542392"><p>You see, therein lies the major issue.</p><p></p><p>There are 20 other variables that need to be taken into account.</p><p></p><p>Box size, air temperature, ported?, sealed?, music?, sweeps?, duration?</p><p></p><p>The severe issue brought to the front is if you are clipping straight sine waves, you are in for some hellacious trouble. The possibility of destroying a singular subwoofer based upon clipping music and the added heat generated(which believe it or not, 99% of us listen to our music clipped due to musical peaks and the inability of amplifiers and headroom), is very slim, to almost absurd. You do understand that the average subwoofer is about .5% efficient, so for every 100 watts of input power, you get about 1/2 of a watt of output, and 99.5 watts of heat in that coil.</p><p></p><p>It all boils down to thermal handling of the woofer, if you stay within it's generated thermal limitations, you are good to go, even if you use square waves!</p><p></p><p>It's just the ability to remove that heat from the coil that is the major concern that is brought up, clipping in the extreme sense, is nothing more than a nasty sound.</p><p></p><p>Ramos- one and only... I'm known by this name wherever I wander... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jlaine, post: 20795, member: 542392"] You see, therein lies the major issue. There are 20 other variables that need to be taken into account. Box size, air temperature, ported?, sealed?, music?, sweeps?, duration? The severe issue brought to the front is if you are clipping straight sine waves, you are in for some hellacious trouble. The possibility of destroying a singular subwoofer based upon clipping music and the added heat generated(which believe it or not, 99% of us listen to our music clipped due to musical peaks and the inability of amplifiers and headroom), is very slim, to almost absurd. You do understand that the average subwoofer is about .5% efficient, so for every 100 watts of input power, you get about 1/2 of a watt of output, and 99.5 watts of heat in that coil. It all boils down to thermal handling of the woofer, if you stay within it's generated thermal limitations, you are good to go, even if you use square waves! It's just the ability to remove that heat from the coil that is the major concern that is brought up, clipping in the extreme sense, is nothing more than a nasty sound. Ramos- one and only... I'm known by this name wherever I wander... [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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