Jersey_Devil

I'll watching for that writeup and ill pm ya if I decide to do more than that!

emiles1987

Dropped a single JL W7 in back - wrachet strapped down. Very loud and deep, almost impossible to blow. Reccomended

JKphotoshoot

Actually this is very true.
The damage occurs from trying to crank speakers up without enough power.
Tweeters are damaged more from this than others.

That's why most of the extremly high end sound quality headunits don't even have a internal amp.

suds1485

none taken i see what your saying but your incorrect volume is not a gain control on an amp. people get really good speakers and hook them up and never power them properly. causing damage to the voice coils and premature failure. you have to match your amp to the speaker. when turning it down you also lower the voltage on your preouts. when setting up a speaker system you tune your amp to the speaker basically you go to distortion/clipping and turn it back just a lil it.

Jersey_Devil

I need someone that knows what their doing to look at my jeep and tell me this in person because I'm not understanding what u guys are say, I know what ur saying is good info and JK-FORD always has good electrical information. So I'm just gonna keep reading what u all said and try and understand this lol

TJM12

Distortion kills speakers, when your trying to drive speakers at loud volumes and exceed the abilities of your amp to do so (under power) you cause the signal to clip and distort which kills the speaker.

JK-Ford

Ok guys. I'm still a novice at this audio stuff. I completely understand how overpowering a driver can cause failure. And I also understand how clipping and distortion can damage a driver too. But I'm still not sure how "under powering" ( not clipping or distorting ) is any different than just simply turning down the volume. Ex: 100 W RMS drivers driven with a 50W RMS Amp ( correctly tuned with an O-scope ). The speakers will be severely underpowered. But how can they be damaged?

Mattk11

Underpowering a speaker will not damage it unless you allow the head unit or amp the clip. So have a 200 watt amp that is properly set up will do no harm to a 300 watt subwoofer. The problem is, 99% of systems are not set up properly. Low powered head units tend to distort at full volume and people tend to push them too hard, thus causing damage to the speaker.

1995nscajeep

2 15s in the rear so u can out bass the guy w 20 in rims in the impala next to u who's whole car is shaking

JK-Ford

Completely understand this concept. I just didn't understand how under powering alone would damage a driver.