I have four very large speakers and two smaller ones in my front room. The four large ones each sit in a corner (my front room is a perfect square with four corners). Someone told me that with the speakers placed that way it could blow them up. Is this true?

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Highly doubtful. Your eardrums will probably blow up before your speakers do.
But it IS better to slightly angle them to 85 or 95-degrees, for a better sound quality.


Mr(looking forward to paying your disability)Sensitive

If it's too loud, you're too old!

If that were the case, I was old at 17!

That doesn't mean I dont know how to R*O*C*K!!!!
I just prefer to rock at 90 decibels, rather than 140!!

Mind you, it's better to enjoy slightly loud music for a lifetime, rather than blow out your eardrums and have to listen to Jim Morrison through a hearing aid at 35 years of age.


Mr(huh? and what? don't make good conversation)Sensitive

Puppy: Room placement will not damage your speakers. My problem here is I don't know what kind of speakers you have and what you are driving them with so I can't be specific. Speaker damage most often is the result of not enough power. That's right, not ENOUGH. Most people make a leap of faith by looking at the maximum power rating on their speaker comparing it with the power rating of the amplifier. If, let's say the maximum rating of your speaker is 100 watts and your amplifier is rated at 75 watts continuous then you should be safe, right? Well, this is not entirely true. This could create a potentially dangerous situation. If the program material is demanding and you have the volume at a somewhat higher setting your speakers could demand greater power than the amplifier is capable of producing resulting in severe distortion and in extreme cases the amplifier will pass direct current which will damage the speakers. It is always better to have as much power as your budget will allow. Speaker efficiency enters into this as well. Different speakers require different amounts of power to drive them to the same given volume level. For example speaker A with 1 watt input at 1 meter from the front of the speaker may produce 80 decibels whereas speaker B using the same criteria may produce 95 decibels. Clearly speaker B is more efficient. Know too a general rule of thumb is that you trade accuracy for efficiency. A speaker that accurately reproduces the entire audio spectrum usually requires a fair amount of power to properly drive them. But, suffice it to say room placement will not damage your speakers