Power Handling - what's "unclipped programme"

It's music being driven thru the amp at a level BELOW its clipping level, that is, within its power capability.

The only way I know of to determine what that is is to view the output waveform on an oscilloscope, not very practible.

The speakers are British?
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The Beatles were the original unclipped programme. ZZ Top is a later example. Willy Nelson too.

Sinead O'Connor is a clipped programme.

With all speakers I can think of you don't really have to look at the power handling figure. The speaker you have described will work fine attached to a 200 watt power amp. What destroys speakers is clipping. This is when the power amp runs out of power and produces a square wave (aka- distortion). You will then be pulling out burnt voice-coils and exploded crossovers.

What causes clipping is when the amplifier runs out of power. This means that you are more likely to destroy your speaker with a 15 watt amplifier that has been pushed beyond its limits than with a 200 watt amplifier.

Things that will destroy your speakers:
-Distorted music (the recording and/or source) played at high volume levels
-System noise such as turning on power amp prior to preamp
-Clipping
-Lightning
-Children and cats

The efficency of your speakers and their impedance will help you determine the minimum amplifier requirements.

If this was too much information I am sorry. I am bored at work and this is more interesting than doing things that could be confused with productivity.

"In an average week I would say that I only do about 15 minutes of real, actual, work." -Office Space

Now back to Tetris!