Newsgroups: rec.audio.tech Subject: Re: Audio amp 40 watts, loudspeaker 19 watts; How to adapt? References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>cyrus writes: > In article <[email protected]>, > "Billw" wrote: > > > (you're probably more likely to hurt it with too LITTLE > > power). > > How does that happen? The typical scenario to destroy speaker high frequency driver in a hifi speaker is to have too low power amplifier and running it to severe distortion. The disortion causes lots of high frequency components to be generated by the distortion, and those high frequency components can overload the high freuqncy driver even through the total power to the speaker is much less than the speaker power rating. The reason for this is that the high freuqncy driver has typically much lower power rating then the other drivers on the speaker, because normal sounds do not have much high frequency signals. -- Tomi Engdahl (http://www.iki.fi/then/) Take a look at my electronics web links and documents at http://www.epanorama.net/