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Does all the discussion about whether distortion kills speakers or not really matter? The pointless distinction that people make is that its not distortion "alone" that kills speakers. So what? Would you ever recommend someone drive their amps with a distorted signal even if they only listen at low volumes? The added harmonics may not sound bad at low volumes, but it would still be a stupid suggestion to run a distorted signal.
Take for example a speaker rated for 50watts thermally. Why even discuss whether that speaker could thermally handle 10 watts of a square wave? That 50 watt thermal rating is not for a clipped signal and a speakers thermal rating goes out the window when you are sending a square wave. So much hot air. See what I did there?
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