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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mr4pto" data-source="post: 56388" data-attributes="member: 541855"><p>actually it isnt just too much power. . . distortion can be caused by various things.  And I guess it also depends on your definition of distortion.  Is clipping and bottoming out considered forms of distortion.  Anyways I believe most of the time you will get distortion for one of two reasons.  Your sending too much power to a speaker at a frequency it cant handle (ie having your crossovers set incorrectly)  The other reason you'd get distortion normally is from under powering.  If your trying to get more sound out of your speakers than they were either designed to handle or the amplifier can provide, things start struggling, either the speaker or the amp, to produce clean sounds and you get distortion through that.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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