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<blockquote data-quote="IDSkoT" data-source="post: 5266515" data-attributes="member: 584344">Well, technically you&#039;re right about the clipped signal. I was mistaken. It&#039;s not a high frequency signal, though. It&#039;s simply a distortion of the signal, although the bi-product of clipping is high frequency, it&#039;s not what it actually is.As for maximum power, it is a real rating. It&#039;s the maximum power that the driver can take before damage is done to it&#039;s parts. Period. The damage is done by the soft parts becoming over-heated. The RMS rating given by manufacturers is the safe level in which you won&#039;t damage the driver. Some are a bit liberal, some are a bit conservative with the rating. But that&#039;s how it&#039;s meant to be.As for the clipping VIA a low powered amp, it really depends on the sub. Now, a fully clipping 250 watt amp wouldn&#039;t be able to damage a 1K rated sub, but I&#039;m sure a 500watt amp (there are certain things that determine this, such as quality of the build of both amp and sub) could damage a 1K watt driver. A clipped wave kind of forms a parallelogram, rather than a sine wave (Which is nice and tender), thus exposing the driver to mower power in a set time than the sine (unclipped signal) wave. Either way, a clipped signal will put a lot more wear on your voice coil(s) than a regular clean signal.Either way, clipping an amp is damaging to the amp, and easily puts way more wear on your driver.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IDSkoT, post: 5266515, member: 584344"] Well, technically you're right about the clipped signal. I was mistaken. It's not a high frequency signal, though. It's simply a distortion of the signal, although the bi-product of clipping is high frequency, it's not what it actually is. As for maximum power, it is a real rating. It's the maximum power that the driver can take before damage is done to it's parts. Period. The damage is done by the soft parts becoming over-heated. The RMS rating given by manufacturers is the safe level in which you won't damage the driver. Some are a bit liberal, some are a bit conservative with the rating. But that's how it's meant to be. As for the clipping VIA a low powered amp, it really depends on the sub. Now, a fully clipping 250 watt amp wouldn't be able to damage a 1K rated sub, but I'm sure a 500watt amp (there are certain things that determine this, such as quality of the build of both amp and sub) could damage a 1K watt driver. A clipped wave kind of forms a parallelogram, rather than a sine wave (Which is nice and tender), thus exposing the driver to mower power in a set time than the sine (unclipped signal) wave. Either way, a clipped signal will put a lot more wear on your voice coil(s) than a regular clean signal. Either way, clipping an amp is damaging to the amp, and easily puts way more wear on your driver. [/QUOTE]

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