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<blockquote data-quote="putergod" data-source="post: 6745779" data-attributes="member: 560757">I want to point something else out here...An amp can only, ever, put out the amount of power that it is capable of. When a amp signal is clipped, the wave gets no bigger, it clips off, because the 240w amp can only put out 240w, period. Heat is not power, heat is energy, power is a measurement of energy. Energy cannot be created, nor destroyed, it can only be changed from one type to the other. The difference that happened, when clipping that amp, was that the electrical energy, that was normally turned into acoustical energy with the smooth rise and fall of the ac signal, was turned into heat energy as the signal no long had a smooth rise and fall. The speaker will maintian a signle motoin longer which causes it to not be transferring the energy into sound, and instead, that energy turns into pure heat in the voice coil. It&#039;s still the same amount of energy, it&#039;s just a difference on how that energy is being transferred.The RMS power will measure higher, but only due to the signal staying at the peaks longer, which shifts the &quot;average&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="putergod, post: 6745779, member: 560757"] I want to point something else out here... An amp can only, ever, put out the amount of power that it is capable of. When a amp signal is clipped, the wave gets no bigger, it clips off, because the 240w amp can only put out 240w, period. Heat is not power, heat is energy, power is a measurement of energy. Energy cannot be created, nor destroyed, it can only be changed from one type to the other. The difference that happened, when clipping that amp, was that the electrical energy, that was normally turned into acoustical energy with the smooth rise and fall of the ac signal, was turned into heat energy as the signal no long had a smooth rise and fall. The speaker will maintian a signle motoin longer which causes it to not be transferring the energy into sound, and instead, that energy turns into pure heat in the voice coil. It's still the same amount of energy, it's just a difference on how that energy is being transferred. The RMS power will measure higher, but only due to the signal staying at the peaks longer, which shifts the "average". [/QUOTE]

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