Hi all,
I am a bit worried because of the following: I was just watching the first part of Transformers, and at one point my amp just went into protection mode, it shut itself down. At first I wasn't sure what happened, so I played the exact same piece again, and the amp again shut itself down. This time I watched the woofers of my speakers, and they made a huge conus excursion, which probably caused the amp to run out of current and shut down.
The gear involved is B&W 683 S2 speakers, and a Yamaha RX-A2020, nothing else. The amp didn't get really really hot (I've had it hotter before). As I've noticed, in movies, huge conus excursion happen a lot, apparently a lot of very low high amplitude frequencies in movies. Never really caused a problem. However, because this one caused my amp to shut down, I am worried if I might have damaged the speakers. I just ran a frequency sweep (20Hz - 20kHz) and I mentioned nothing out of the ordinary, though this might not be conclusive? Can speakers easily handle this? Anything I should worry about?
First time this happens. These speakers allegedly dip to 3 Ohms at an unknown frequency, which might be at the root of the problem. Any of you guys have experience with this? Or know whether or not my speakers might be damaged?
Thanks!
I am a bit worried because of the following: I was just watching the first part of Transformers, and at one point my amp just went into protection mode, it shut itself down. At first I wasn't sure what happened, so I played the exact same piece again, and the amp again shut itself down. This time I watched the woofers of my speakers, and they made a huge conus excursion, which probably caused the amp to run out of current and shut down.
The gear involved is B&W 683 S2 speakers, and a Yamaha RX-A2020, nothing else. The amp didn't get really really hot (I've had it hotter before). As I've noticed, in movies, huge conus excursion happen a lot, apparently a lot of very low high amplitude frequencies in movies. Never really caused a problem. However, because this one caused my amp to shut down, I am worried if I might have damaged the speakers. I just ran a frequency sweep (20Hz - 20kHz) and I mentioned nothing out of the ordinary, though this might not be conclusive? Can speakers easily handle this? Anything I should worry about?
First time this happens. These speakers allegedly dip to 3 Ohms at an unknown frequency, which might be at the root of the problem. Any of you guys have experience with this? Or know whether or not my speakers might be damaged?
Thanks!