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- From: gt0869a@prism.gatech.EDU (Clyde Gordon Waters)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Speaker vent placement question
- Message-ID: <81524@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 08:32:38 GMT
- References: <C19v5p.IzJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <C19zHJ.BMI@world.std.com>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- In article <C19zHJ.BMI@world.std.com> DPierce@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce) writes:
- >
- >Current piezo tweeters are just as bashable now as they were then. I
- >cannot guess why John Dalquist used them. I cannot see them has having any
- >place in a reasonable speaker system. They are, however, the ultimate
- >indestructible driver, it would seem.
-
- Uh, not quite...ever hit one with a >35v input _SHATTER!!!_ there went
- the element... one of the only tweeters more likely to die with a big
- amp rather than a small one... they can handle all the low-voltage
- clipping you can send at them, but are annihilated at any signal greater
- than (usually) 35v. They are great for the guys (primarily car stereo)
- who want to play their $129 amp at level 11- you don't have to replace them
- every week ( :-) ).
-
- Yours amusedly,
- Gordon.
-
-
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- WATERS,CLYDE GORDON-Class of '93-Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta Ga.
- "Out of the mountain of despair, we can hew the stone of hope"- MLK Jr.
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