XPost: uk.rec.audio   
   From: waiting@the.exit.invalid   
      
   Paul G.  wrote in   
   news:ekil86li20r7ofmqd8eui76knt2lgucms7@4ax.com:   
      
      
      
   > I've heard a story where some   
   > guy takes a crappy little amp, runs it flat out (square   
   > waves or worse) and destroys speakers that have a   
   > reasonable power rating. I'm not sure if its an audio myth,   
   > but it was supposed to have ocurred when a knowledgable   
   > customer challenged a salesman at a hifi store, claiming   
   > the expensive powerful speaker could be damaged by the   
   > little amplifier.   
      
   I have heard similar, from technicians I used to work with. It   
   is the distorted nature of the sound waves that destroys the   
   speakers, not the volume (of course, volume CAN kill speakers as   
   well).   
      
   It is not coincidental that cheap crappy amps claim 5,000 PMPO   
   (about 15W/side) and deliver clipped non-sound, and THAT is what   
   will destroy a speaker. 20 W per side of QUALITY is all anyone   
   really needs, unless, as MANY people do, you own equipment to   
   appreciate IT, not the music it lets you hear.   
      
   A GREAT musician I used to go to music school with had a crap   
   little amp (with two volume controls and one tone control, built   
   circa 1970, Radio Shack branded...).   
      
   But he was a MUSICIAN and he cared about the MUSIC - he was not   
   a wanker who only cares about the fact that only 30 other people   
   in the world can afford a system like his - on which he (once or   
   twice a year) plays his ***3*** CD's (which came free with one   
   of his magazine subs).   
      
      
      
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