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The real question is how many watts can they handle without blowing up ?

April 26, 2017blowing watts

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The real question is how many watts can they handle without blowing up ?

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Orb speakers are compatible with most receivers rated up to 110 watts. They can also work with recievers of higher wattage as explained below. Watts are not the only enemy of speakers, though. Distortion is just as bad if not worse. You will be safe using almost any receiver or amplifier so long as you do not play loudly enough to hear constant distortion. Distorted sound due to extreme volume is caused by the amplifier (receiver) trying to push the speaker cone out farther than it is designed to travel, or from a distorted signal being sent from the amplifier. Eventually this will cause heat to build up in the voice coil (the inner part of the moving cone that all those watts travel through) and the voice coil will burn out. This happens literally, if you blow out a speaker, it will smell burnt. The ultra fine wires that form the voice coil will simply melt thus breaking the electrical current and causing the speaker to stop making sound. There is no danger of actual fire. It is very

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Orb speakers are compatible with most receivers rated up to 125 watts. They can also work with recievers of higher wattage as explained below. Watts are not the only enemy of speakers, though. Distortion is just as bad if not worse. You will be safe using almost any receiver or amplifier so long as you do not play loudly enough to hear constant distortion. Distorted sound due to extreme volume is caused by the amplifier (receiver) trying to push the speaker cone out farther than it is designed to travel, or from a distorted signal being sent from the amplifier. Eventually this will cause heat to build up in the voice coil (the inner part of the moving cone that all those watts travel through) and the voice coil will burn out. This happens literally, if you blow out a speaker, it will smell burnt. The ultra fine wires that form the voice coil will simply melt thus breaking the electrical current and causing the speaker to stop making sound. There is no danger of actual fire. It is very