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<blockquote data-quote="Warbleed" data-source="post: 2787895" data-attributes="member: 549898">With regards to the original poster, as has been said time and time again, your friend tore the spiders because he didn&#039;t know what he was doing. It was most likely a combination of grossly excessive gain settings (it&#039;s used to match input voltage, not as a volume knob), bass boost, and quite honestly, deaf ears. You&#039;d have to grossly overdrive those speakers to tear a spider, and there&#039;s no way that could&#039;ve sounded good, unless you are so used to listening to distortion that it didn&#039;t seem out of the ordinary. Speakers under heavy mechanical stress tend to object rather strongly to it.Big boxes don&#039;t tear spiders. Clipping doesn&#039;t tear spiders. Overdriving the speaker past its mechanical limits repeatedly, however, does in fact tear spiders.As I said in the beginning, he tore the spider because he didn&#039;t know what he was doing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warbleed, post: 2787895, member: 549898"] With regards to the original poster, as has been said time and time again, your friend tore the spiders because he didn't know what he was doing. It was most likely a combination of grossly excessive gain settings (it's used to match input voltage, not as a volume knob), bass boost, and quite honestly, deaf ears. You'd have to grossly overdrive those speakers to tear a spider, and there's no way that could've sounded good, unless you are so used to listening to distortion that it didn't seem out of the ordinary. Speakers under heavy mechanical stress tend to object rather strongly to it. Big boxes don't tear spiders. Clipping doesn't tear spiders. Overdriving the speaker past its mechanical limits repeatedly, however, does in fact tear spiders. As I said in the beginning, he tore the spider because he didn't know what he was doing. [/QUOTE]

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