Re: System down: Audiophile urgency

Without commenting about failure mode or speaker quality, I would like
to bring the following into consideration:

- Does an audiophile really want to place a non-linear current
dependent resistor in series with the speaker system (fuse), though
the induced effect may be inaudible, it *is* measurable and magnitudes
higher than effects created by bi-wiring, golden interconnects etc.

- Death by clipping: note that with normal audio content, lower
frequencies will clip first, effectively drowning (saturating) the
higher freq content (if the voltage excursion hits the power supply
rail, smaller waveforms are not there anymore). Spectrally observed,
the high freq  content does *not* get higher when clipping occurs,
mostly lower.

What kills the system is higher *average* power (clipping is the
ultimate dynamic compression), not the clipping event itself.  A
bigger non-clipping amp with the same gain setting would kill the
speaker faster.

-- 
 - René