Playing the modular through my home stereo

[JWBarlow at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/1/2000 3:47:11 PM, pfperry at melbpc.org.au writes:

>Only time I blew the speakers out, I was using a r*land
>D*gital soundcanvas card & running a midi file shifted
>down 4 octaves.
>This gave very low freq square waves.. I couldn't hear 
>anything except this 'clicking' sound.. thought the gain was
>too low.. turned out what I was hearing was the cones bottoming
>out on squarewaves at 5 Hz or so.

What I've wondered about for a long time is the effect of instantaneous 
transitions on speakers (even in the audio range). It seems hard enough to 
get electrons to move like saw and square waves, let alone speaker cones. 
Anyone know how traumatic this is for speakers?

John Barlow