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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PV Audio" data-source="post: 1387030" data-attributes="member: 554493"><p>People say clipping kills subs because of what clipping is associated with. The subwoofer doesn't have a brain, and it doesn't know what signal is being fed to it. The SIGNAL therefore cannot blow the speaker. The signal CAN cause large gains in power due to more power under the once-sine wave. This increase in power because of the clipped signal is what causes them to blow. If you take a sony home receiver, crank up the bass boost and put it on a 9515, the speaker wouldn't blow; it would be unfazed as even as you are pulling all that more power from the receiver, it is still not enough to exceed it's thermal let alone mechanical limits. If you take an amplifier rated for the 9515 and clip it, yes; it could very easily blow. People need to stop blaming a signal for speaker damage and instead blame power and enclosures.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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