Re: Loudspeakers for ur-quattro (car audio dribble)

["Mark L. Chang" <mchang@ece.nwu.edu>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 JShadzi@aol.com wrote:

>     I think Arden is mostly right in his assesment.  It is true that the 
> cause of most speaker that are blow is due to very high levels of distortion. 
[snip]
> not intended for the power.  Distortion has this same effect on speakers, 
> causing overheating of the voicecoil.  Look at a distorting speaker sometime, 
> it is not a pretty site.
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One word - headroom.  Ask too much from any amplifier stage, and you'll
get distortion.  Distortion==bad for speaker.  Also, just putting too much
power into a voice coil is bad too -- like Javad said -- it's all about
heat dissipation.

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