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<blockquote data-quote="jsloan10" data-source="post: 942889" data-attributes="member: 560397">5.21 What&#039;s worse for a speaker, too much or too little power? [iDB]======================================================================Problems occur (in everyday operation) when distortion is fed to aspeaker. This occurs MUCH more often when you are dealing with anunderpowered system - typically the owner will turn up the volume toomuch or set the amplifier gains too high to try and get more volumefrom the system. These introduce distortion to the signal - this willdestroy *any* speaker. ((see Section 5.22).)When a speaker is overpowered, however, it is not nearly as common tohave these kind of problems, so speakers aren&#039;t blown as much. Ofcourse, it is certainly possible to destroy a speaker (thermally) byoverpowering it, but you&#039;ll have a pretty hard time doing this on yourown, especially with standard car audio amplifiers.Get an amp, your deck power is not enough.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jsloan10, post: 942889, member: 560397"] 5.21 What's worse for a speaker, too much or too little power? [iDB] ====================================================================== Problems occur (in everyday operation) when distortion is fed to a speaker. This occurs MUCH more often when you are dealing with an underpowered system - typically the owner will turn up the volume too much or set the amplifier gains too high to try and get more volume from the system. These introduce distortion to the signal - this will destroy *any* speaker. ((see Section 5.22).) When a speaker is overpowered, however, it is not nearly as common to have these kind of problems, so speakers aren't blown as much. Of course, it is certainly possible to destroy a speaker (thermally) by overpowering it, but you'll have a pretty hard time doing this on your own, especially with standard car audio amplifiers. Get an amp, your deck power is not enough. [/QUOTE]

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