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<blockquote data-quote="bubbagumper6" data-source="post: 6745783" data-attributes="member: 567719"><p>In this case, it&#039;s more like, guns don&#039;t kill people, shooting people kills people.&nbsp; Clipping does not kill speakers, that&#039;s a fact.&nbsp; Just because your feeding a clipped signal doesn&#039;t mean the speaker will fail.&nbsp; What people don&#039;t understand is that if you say a 500w amp, and you crank the gain, you think your feeding your woofer a 500w clipped signal right?&nbsp; WRONG.&nbsp; If you set your gains correctly you would be outputting 500w (on a sine wave), but when you crank it, and you start clipping the signal, the power output continues to go up.&nbsp; So like DB said, you may be outputting 900w (obviously not clean power).&nbsp; But this alone will not kill a woofer.&nbsp; If I had a sub that can handle 2kw rms, then I could feed it a 900w clipped signal all day.&nbsp; But it&#039;s when noobs get a 500w amp and a 500w sub, then crank the gains and feed that sub the 900w clipped signal...then shit goes poof and the magic smoke comes out</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="bubbagumper6, post: 6745783, member: 567719"] In this case, it's more like, guns don't kill people, shooting people kills people. Clipping does not kill speakers, that's a fact. Just because your feeding a clipped signal doesn't mean the speaker will fail. What people don't understand is that if you say a 500w amp, and you crank the gain, you think your feeding your woofer a 500w clipped signal right? WRONG. If you set your gains correctly you would be outputting 500w (on a sine wave), but when you crank it, and you start clipping the signal, the power output continues to go up. So like DB said, you may be outputting 900w (obviously not clean power). But this alone will not kill a woofer. If I had a sub that can handle 2kw rms, then I could feed it a 900w clipped signal all day. But it's when noobs get a 500w amp and a 500w sub, then crank the gains and feed that sub the 900w clipped signal...then shit goes poof and the magic smoke comes out [/QUOTE]

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