"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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"George's Pro Sound Company" wrote in message
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"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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the easiest way to overdrive a speaker is to use a[n] amp
larger than the speaker[']s rateing [sic]

Actually, the easiest way to overdrive a speaker is to play it at a
level
where it produces audible distortion. But as most listeners have no idea
what distortion sounds like...

OTOH distortion does not destroy speakers, speakers are as happy to play
distortion as clean signal only when you exceed the heat dissipating
ability
of the motor do you burn out a speaker

Although what you say is true in terms of physics (the speaker's excursion
limits do not have a necessary relationship with its heat-dissipating
capability), in practice, audible distortion is a warning that you should
turn down the volume. William Michael Watson Dayton-Wright told me horror
stories of how he could not design a speaker with sufficient
power-handling
capability to keep "deaf" listeners from overdriving and damaging it.


clipping does not damage speakers and distortion does not damage
speakers, it[']s overheating and over excursion that damages speakers
distortion is one method of achieving overheating, but you can overheat
with a spotlessly clean signal as well

The distortion I was talking about was the sort that comes from pushing it
into its excursion limits.

I grant you all your points as valid, and bottoming(or farting) a woofer is
truely a horid sound
George