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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 1761149" data-attributes="member: 550915"><p>Depends.  I've seen plenty of subs that reach their mechanical limits well before their thermal limit.  Depending on the tuning of the box and the singnal fed to the sub, you can easily overstroke it with very little power.  A lot depends on the actual build of the sub as well.  Usually unless you are playing below tuning, the cone moves very little in a ported or 6th order enclosure.  The motor of the sub is mostly just presurizing the air in the enclosure and the inertia of the air going in and out of the port adds additional damping to the cone.  Send too much power to the sub and the forces exerted by the enclosure and the motor can literally tear the sub apart.  This is with the cone barely moving.  A 6th order enclosure exerts even more pressure on the cone...</p></blockquote><p></p>

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