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Re: best analysis ive seen on this subject...I trust your numbers...

Clipping will damage a tweeter very quickly. Ask any retailer. When you clip say a 300 Hz note it will be distorted and create multiples of this at the second, 600 Hz, and third 900 Hz as well as higher harmonics. So the clipped signal will be fed to the midrange and tweeter as a burst of distortion. In complex musical signals of say two tones you will also get multiples of these and the difference. On a storage scope a clipped signal will show strong upper frequencies out to the ninth.
Yes a tweeter can dissipate this load as heat briefly then its impedance will rise, sensitivity drops, thermal compression sets in and the neo magnet will be permanently demagnetized once it reaches 100C. This happens all the time when the power limits of a tweeter are exceeded.
Ron-C


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