Driving the speaker to 12mm xmax is safe - beyond 13 you run a great risk of destroying your driver..TimpBizkit wrote:Why is exceeding x-max so bad? (...)
A lab 12 has an X-max of 13mm and an X-lim of 22mm. So doesn't that mean that driving the speaker to 14 or 15mm momentarily is safe? (...)
Remember that excursion rises rapidly when you want to reproduce lower octaves.. Often, when it comes to midwoofers or similar, the driver will hit its thermal limit before its mechanical - thereby ruling out xmax as the limiting factor..