Low power amps and speaker damage?

Hey,

So the thing is you'll hear the amp clipping long before you really damage them assuming you aren't a wild man.

Yes, if you turn the volume up loud and it distorts and you have enough power you'll blow the tweets before you blow the woofers.

Assuming the sound is good at the volumes you are playing you have very little risk.

A usual rule is 12:00 High. Should be your max, “should”

Every amp is different with gain and so on.
most of my amps, preamps, speakers I’ve owned, usually the 12:00 o’clock high is my max, unless I hit early distortion, and quickly lower the volume!! At most get togethers, by myself, adding some old friends (Powers and Bushmills, etc) our ears and fingers tend to push the volume up a bit more (FIGHT THE TEMPTATION!!!)
Slowly volume up until it’s just good enough, unless you have a concert array of line source speakers hanging from your ceilings,
Go easy on your gear. Nothing worse than waking up and hearing missing midrange from a right speaker, or the crackling from your left tweeter!





There is a small red line on my pre faceplate, which tells me and the wife (stop here) the wife will never go loud anyway, as she don’t know how to use my stereo  ;)

Anyone thinks low power damages speakers try and blow anything with an iPod. Audiophiles. When they aren’t overthinking, they’re over simplifying.

A usual rule is 12:00 High

that is an extremely coarse, rough rule of thumb... almost useless, as between 2 components the output capability of one and the input sensitivity of the other, and relative impedance characteristics dictate how far the volume control on the driving unit would be set for proper volume