Re: Bass speaker cone

Brian Running wrote:
Les Cargill wrote:
And really, power handling is usually limited by the speaker's ability to
dissipate heat.

I don't think that's true. I can't back this up with precise statistics, but I'd be willing to bet that most speaker cabinets' power handling limit is determined by physical displacement capability, not power dissipation.


We see both failure modes - exceeding Xmax and just plain-old burning
up from IR heating. If a speaker's not "stuck" at past Xmax when it fails, then it failed due to heat dissipation.

Then again, I'm not in that industry - it'd be interesting to see what
somebody who really knows says about it.

This is somewhat helpful - and they support the "it's when it goes
past Xmax (for woofers(" thesis pretty well.

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Les Cargill
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