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<blockquote data-quote="ThxOne" data-source="post: 8892595" data-attributes="member: 675210"><p>Check these two sine waves out. One is unclipped and smooth and the other hard clipped.</p><p></p><p>Picture your woofer following those sine waves. The first unclipped as the cone travels up and down with no pause. This is the goal.</p><p></p><p>The second is the amplifier hard clipping. Now picture the woofer following the sine wave up and down but now it is pausing at the top and bottom. This pause in the cones movement means the electrical signal is still passing through the voice coil only now there is no air moving over the coil to cool it. Hotter and hotter until the speaker eventually blows a coil.</p><p></p><p>Even underpowering the speaker if the amp is clipped can cause the speaker to blow.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]63632[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]63633[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThxOne, post: 8892595, member: 675210"] Check these two sine waves out. One is unclipped and smooth and the other hard clipped. Picture your woofer following those sine waves. The first unclipped as the cone travels up and down with no pause. This is the goal. The second is the amplifier hard clipping. Now picture the woofer following the sine wave up and down but now it is pausing at the top and bottom. This pause in the cones movement means the electrical signal is still passing through the voice coil only now there is no air moving over the coil to cool it. Hotter and hotter until the speaker eventually blows a coil. Even underpowering the speaker if the amp is clipped can cause the speaker to blow. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Unclipped.jpg"]63632[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Clipped.jpg"]63633[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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