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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bubbagumper6" data-source="post: 6733482" data-attributes="member: 567719">Hey DB...why so serious?haha.  The way I understand it, sending a clipped signal means that for a short period of time, the subwoofer is receiving rail voltages (the more clipped, the longer the period of time).  So wouldn't that increase the thermal energy the coils would have to dissipate?  Thus making a clipped signal push the woofer past it's thermal limits and cause it to fail?  I mean if a woofer is rated at 500w, that means it can dissipate 500w worth of thermal energy (heat), so 700w of clean signal would produce a lot less heat than 700w of clipped signal right?  Or am I way off base on this?</blockquote>

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