Actually I did understand your article as I understand Fourier analysis quite well. In fact that was why I made the point that people tend to exaggerate how speakers are more likely damaged by being underpowered. As you explained so clearly, it is the tweeter that gets damaged due to the high frequency contents of the clipped signal. When a solid state amp clipped, it makes the speakers sound terrible. So I would bet that normal people would turn the volume down long before the tweeters melt down, because normal people are sensitive to the distorted mid/high frequency signals. In doing so they will save their tweeters every time!
Regarding my suggestion of testing with real music, again I think you and fmw might have misunderstood my point. I was just trying to say that while you can damage the tweeter with tones easily, if you use real music, a normal person would not like the distorted mid/high frequency signal and would turn the volume down right away before the tweeter gets too hot. In my house even if the music sounds loud but not distorted, someone will still grab the remote and turn it down if I am not quick enough to do it myself.
In fact, I would like to argue the opposite that a high power amp has a greater chance to kill a tweeter because a normal person can withstand much louder level of SPL if the music is loud but is free of distortion. That's how I fried a tweeter as I mentioned in my last post. In fact at the time I had no excuse as I wasn't even listening to classical music that has quite passages. I simply got it too loud (no audible distortion) for a little too long, when I first added an amp to the front channels.
Anyway, thanks for clarifying your point. As I said I understood it the first time, but you did an excellent job explaining it the second time. On the contrary I completely failed to make myself clear in my post clear.
