Clippind doesn't burn tinsel leads. It never has, and never will. The signal is arbitrary.

The leads burn from too much current flowing through them. Thats it. Period.

When they start to heat up, they start to do something similar to what is refered to as "Thermal Runaway" (you'll hear this alot with semiconductors). Basically, this is what happens-

#1 They begin to heat up from too much current

#2 The heat increases the resistance of the tinsel

#3 As resistance goes up, more voltage is dropped across the lead and the more power (heat) it dissipates

#4 The hotter it gets, the more resistance it has...

#5 And so on, and so on, and so on..... Until it melts....

Again, THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH CLIPPING or O-SCOPES....

Clippind doesn't burn tinsel leads. It never has, and never will. The signal is arbitrary.

The leads burn from too much current flowing through them. Thats it. Period.

When they start to heat up, they start to do something similar to what is refered to as "Thermal Runaway" (you'll hear this alot with semiconductors). Basically, this is what happens-

#1 They begin to heat up from too much current

#2 The heat increases the resistance of the tinsel

#3 As resistance goes up, more voltage is dropped across the lead and the more power (heat) it dissipates

#4 The hotter it gets, the more resistance it has...

#5 And so on, and so on, and so on..... Until it melts....

Again, THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH CLIPPING or O-SCOPES....

And considering that from what I was told, they all burned apart at the same place. That point is where there was more resistance than anywhere else. In this case where the tinsel leads connected to the coil. This makes sense.

To be honest, I usually set the gains by ear. But I do have an O-scope now so that I CAN PROPERLY SET THE GAINS WITHOUT HAVING THAT DIRTY DIRTY CLIPPING. The speakers are being repaired and soon my son should be happily bumping along. He did get a sound violation in my car yesterday. It cost him 75 bucks. Ha!! Told him that he needs to be aware of the police and their vicinity.