Overpowering Speakers

Elizabeth is right on the money. Before in my 2 channel set up in my basement I had a Phase Linear 700B powering a pair of Tannoy bookshelf speakers that were rated up to 120 watts at 8 ohms. I was careful with the raising of the volume and listening level and had no issues. The music sounded fine and the speakers were not damaged. People thought I was crazy to use a Flame Linear or Fuzz Linear to power bookshelf speakers for a time but I just had to be careful.

Thanks for your kind response Almarg, Pulled my old Speaker
Craft notes out, here is what I had word for word. I'm just old.
The bulb wires in series with the tweeter, under normal average music conditions it is just a low value resistance as the power sent to the tweeter increases the current through the bulb increases. since the bulb filament has a positive temperature coefficient as it heats up it's resistance goes up and takes a larger share of the power that the tweeter would get without the bulb in series. this does cause compression but saves many tweeters in a cheap easy way. Ideally the bulb should go before the tweeter crossover circuitry so it does not affect the crossover frequency.