Cknight
Something called RMS, or average power. When you had the volume at that level, along came a sudden transient, a bass guitar, a drum, whatever, you heard your woofer bottom out against the stops. No harm. Try not to keep doing it however.
Transients can be several times the average level.
If all you played was a pure tone at say 100Hz ( a pure sine wave)...this is the value the speaker manufacturer specs for power handling, not musical signals whose peaks and valleys are far to random.
You have not blown a driver, just your nerves. Turn it down!!
Something called RMS, or average power. When you had the volume at that level, along came a sudden transient, a bass guitar, a drum, whatever, you heard your woofer bottom out against the stops. No harm. Try not to keep doing it however.
Transients can be several times the average level.
If all you played was a pure tone at say 100Hz ( a pure sine wave)...this is the value the speaker manufacturer specs for power handling, not musical signals whose peaks and valleys are far to random.
You have not blown a driver, just your nerves. Turn it down!!