Can too low of a frequency damage my speakers?

[Nipper]

VOTT's used in the home have built in distortion protection. Crank a set and IT HURTS.

[cradeldorf]

You said it Nipster, these things are so efficient you don't even come close to hitting a distortion level with them before they are just too damn loud.

[VolvoHeretic]

I tried listening to a movie through my A8 clones and the noise coming out of the Magnavox DVD player/recorder was unbearable. Not to mention that I couldn't hear the dialog or music because the sound effects were so damned loud (I know, I have bitched about this before). You definitely don't need any tone boost in the high or low registers for movies. I did almost blow them up clicking on a You Tube video and all of a sudden a commercial came blaring out at least 10 times the volume of the last song, it took me a few seconds to find the volume knob and luckily nothing was exploded, but boy, that was the loudest thing I have ever heard. I am in the process of adding inline speaker fuses as we speak. I can’t remember how to size them, but I think that I will start out with 1.5 amp fast blow fuses first and see how that works.

[Audio_by_Goodwill]

.....You definitely don't need any tone boost in the high or low registers for movies.

Stereo, or some kind of surround? I beleive surround is basically pre-EQ'd. Even if you're running two channel, are you sure you don't have some sort of effects or surround turned on? I used to run an eq with a "smile" and was always baffled why I had to turn up the volume to hear voices. I finally wised up. I do my best to run flat, now.

[VolvoHeretic]

This is a 5.1 amp, and I'm not sure if it kicks into simulated surround and maybe EQ when it is set to TV mode. I have the EQ set almost like a smile, more like a flat smirk with the corners turned up. :] I read somewhere long ago, maybe in the Soundcraftsman EQ manual that it was always better to add than subtract the EQ settings, something like that a bunch of bumps were better than a bunch of dips.

[Altec Best]

these things are so efficient you don't even come close to hitting a distortion level with them before they are just too damn loud.

I don't know about that.I have been known to irk a few neighbors or two with some volume !

[valhallax]

ive heard several folks ask to have it turned up..im running 210 cabs and large format horns..i really think people dont think its loud till they hear distortion. f$@K the neighbors

[cradeldorf]

I can use the 604 E as a center speaker....right??? I mean center speakers aren't anything special are they? Of course I'll have to use an original crossover network because I can't afford another GPA crossover...I really couldn't afford the 604 C...but I couldn't let it get away either.

[gvasale]

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[voice of the theater]

I can use the 604 E as a center speaker....right??? I mean center speakers aren't anything special are they? Of course I'll have to use an original crossover network because I can't afford another GPA crossover...I really couldn't afford the 604 C...but I couldn't let it get away either.

Congrats on the 2nd 604C! I just went to the classifieds and viewed the photos again and it looks like a real beauty! Sounds like a killer setup--matched 604C's for left and right channel and a 604E for the center channel. Now that you've found a tuning/porting that you like for your 604's it might be worth experimenting with porting the center Heathkit cab--maybe install a new back to that center cab with similar slotted ports (but save the original back of course in case you sell those cabs someday)?