wrote:

Mr. Dorsey indicated in a recent post that distortion is really bad for
speakers. Why is that?

No, I said _clipping_ is really bad for speakers. Clipping is only ONE
of many kinds of distortion.

And the reason is because it contains a lot of high frequency trash, some
of which is ultrasonic. The tweeters try very hard to reproduce it, but
they can't move quickly enough, and the residual energy becomes heat.
Most speakers are very displeased about dealing with ultrasonics, and
many are displeased at dealing with high levels of audible high frequencies.
--scott

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