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<blockquote data-quote="ciaonzo" data-source="post: 8654591" data-attributes="member: 607015">They do blow, just not for everyone. Picking up what I&#039;m laying down?Anyway, it really comes down to time versus power and the averages you&#039;re running over the long term. As in, what is the average amount of power you are giving to the driver, say, for the period of 30 seconds versus a full song versus a full day. These are tiny bursts of power, rarely do pure tones go to a tweeter. But they add up over time and hamper the driver&#039;s ability to shed the thermal energy. This leads to thermal compression and everything that follows, including death. So you can send some pretty significant spikes of power (hundreds of watts for milliseconds) to a HF driver and it will survive. But this assumes everything is clean about it; the signal, the power. The shorter the time period, the more power you can dump into a tweeter coil. The longer the time period... you get it. The rest of the picture, of course, involves the more obvious things like clipping and the fact that the tweeter is only seeing a certain percentage of the full musical spectrum. Elliot Sound is a great site for information, I posted a related article below. Hope it helps.<a href="http://sound.whsites.net/tweeters.htm" target="_blank">http://sound.whsites.net/tweeters.htm</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ciaonzo, post: 8654591, member: 607015"] They do blow, just not for everyone. Picking up what I'm laying down? Anyway, it really comes down to time versus power and the averages you're running over the long term. As in, what is the average amount of power you are giving to the driver, say, for the period of 30 seconds versus a full song versus a full day. These are tiny bursts of power, rarely do pure tones go to a tweeter. But they add up over time and hamper the driver's ability to shed the thermal energy. This leads to thermal compression and everything that follows, including death. So you can send some pretty significant spikes of power (hundreds of watts for milliseconds) to a HF driver and it will survive. But this assumes everything is clean about it; the signal, the power. The shorter the time period, the more power you can dump into a tweeter coil. The longer the time period... you get it. The rest of the picture, of course, involves the more obvious things like clipping and the fact that the tweeter is only seeing a certain percentage of the full musical spectrum. Elliot Sound is a great site for information, I posted a related article below. Hope it helps. [URL="http://sound.whsites.net/tweeters.htm"]http://sound.whsites.net/tweeters.htm[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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