on 27/2/02 3:32 am, Kevin Tarr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ...or Stop Me Before I Ask Again! > > By accident I was in a different stereo shop asking about speakers. The > prices I saw were 50 to 100% more than the prices on the Internet, I just > wanted to make sure before I bought on-line. So eventually the talk swung > around to why my last speakers blew out. Without any prompting he said the > same thing, my speakers weren't getting ENOUGH power. I decided to play > clueless instead of irate customer this time. Within ten minutes the > salesman had a book out and was drawing pictures and trying to explain > terms. I kept on saying 'You aren't PROVING anything, show me HOW underpower > hurts a speaker. Give me REAL numbers, saying what is safe and what isn't.' > (I wonder where I learned the tactic of asking for proof). > > I eventually got the technician to say that if you listened to a stereo with > the volume turned down all the time that the speaker would be damaged. I > then waved my hand around and pointed out that all the speakers just sitting > in their boxes on the shelves were wearing out the fastest because they were > getting NO power. He said that wasn't it. He still couldn't explain why, but > he was adamant that what he was saying was true. I just said okay. He still > thought I was buying the speakers from him! > > I walked out.
Sounds like a mutated and garbled version of the well known audiophile belief that underpowered amps are *more* likely to blow speakers. See http://list.miata.net/miata/1995-04/139.html for a standard description of this. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk
